NPR News Now
NPR News Now

NPR News: 03-29-2026 11PM EDT

2h ago4:40739 words
0:000:00

NPR News: 03-29-2026 11PM EDTTo manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage yo...

Transcript

EN

Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.

In Iranian officials, they accused the U.S. of planning for a ground invasion, and Iran's

military says that would be met with force, and Pierce Emily Fang reports.

Writing in telegram Iran's Parliament Speaker's struck an aggressive stance, writing quote, "the enemy publicly signals negotiations will secretly planning a ground invasion." His referring to news at the U.S. is triply, carrying 3,500 U.S. Marines and sailors, is arrived in the Middle East, though the U.S. military has not said where the Marines will be deployed and how.

Earlier Iran rejected a 15-point plan the U.S. had proposed to end the war, and put forth its own proposal that would give Iran official control over the straight of our moves and have the U.S. pay for war damages. Israel said it had started a new wave of strikes on Iran over the weekend, as well, targeting weapon sites.

Iranian officials said they hate universities and Tehran and Esfahan. Emily Fang and Pernu's then Turkey.

As the war against Iran passes the one month mark, the U.S. Central Command did announce

the week this weekend, the additional 3,500 sailors and Marines arriving in the Persian Gulf. They're on board the U.S. as triply, but even as the buildup continues, House Majority Leader Steve Scalese, Luis Yanis, says President Trump has almost put an end to the threat Iran is posed to the U.S. and to the world.

They're seeing him do it with the naval fleet, with their facilities that actually manufacture those missiles, those drones, and so many other things that he's decimating, but we're not there yet, but we're getting close. Scalese made his comments today on ABC News. Police in Israel turned away the Vatican's top official in Jerusalem from praying in one

of Christianity's holiest sites today, the Latin Patriarch, had already canceled public palms Sunday events and keeping with wartime restrictions, but was also barred from holding

smaller private prayers, and Pierre's Caricon has our report from Jerusalem.

The bells of the Church of the Holy Seplicer ring out in the old city, but you can't get close to the site where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected. Israeli officials are limiting public gatherings in Jerusalem's holy sites to under 50 people. The Holy Al-Aqsa mosque has been close to just staff during the entire war. Judaism's holy western wall allows 50 worshipers at a time.

This year's Palm Sunday procession had been canceled in accordance to the rules, but police Sunday even prevented Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierre Baltista pizza ball and another official for mentoring the site. In what Church officials say is, quote, "Amanifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate measure Israel's president apologized, Caricon and Pierre News Jerusalem."

World leaders, including U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, all criticized the move. You're listening to NPR News. Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Rafael are considered the three great masters of the

high renaissance, and now, for the first time, a retrospective of Rafael's work is in the

U.S., and Pierre's Jennifer Venesco reports. Rafael has been called the Prince of Painters. His portraits of Madonna's and other religious figures are known for their harmony and balance. He became an extraordinary, narrative painter, a storyteller who instantly knew how to capture

the plot of a story or a scene at the moment of its greatest drama. That's Carmen Bambac, she's the curator of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She's collected more than 170 of his drawings, paintings, prints, and tapestries from museums and private collections around the world.

Many of them, here for the first time.

The show will run until the end of June. Jennifer Venesco and Pierre News, New York. The man's NCAA basketball final four is now set after U.Con. beat Duke Sunday, 73-72 with the last second three-pointer. Freshman Brail and Mullins hit the last shot.

The U.Con. will now play Illinois, Michigan dominated Tennessee, winning 95-62. The Wolverines will play Arizona in the other semi-final match. Yaxel Lindemberg scored 27 points in that win. It women's basketball defending national champion U.Con. is heading to their 25th final four after beating Notre Dame Sun, they 70-52, and Lauren

Beth scored 23 points and added 10 rebounds and five blocks as UCLA beat Duke, 70-58, to also advance to the women's final four. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.

Compare and Explore