NPR News: 06-20-2026 3AM EDT

Dale Willman· Host0:01

Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Talks between the US and Iran were scheduled to take place Friday in Switzerland, but they were postponed because of Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

Rob Schmitz0:11

And Lebanon's health ministry says Israel's military killed at least 47 people, including at least a dozen women and children, in airstrikes overnight. For its part, Israel says four of its soldiers were killed in fighting. You know, we've had reports of a ceasefire between the two, but Israel is still occupying southern Lebanon, something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it will continue to do, and all of this seems to be getting in the way of this very, this, this peace plan.

Dale Willman· Host0:37

That's NPR's Rob Schmitz reporting from Switzerland. Israel and Hezbollah agreed Friday to stop the fighting in southern Lebanon, and US officials are continuing efforts to begin a new round of peace talks. The Obama Presidential Center opened this week in Chicago, and as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, it presents an America where the past 10 years never happened.

Speaker 30:59

President Trump isn't a presence in the Obama Presidential Museum, though many of the milestones on the timeline of Obama's two terms displayed in the museum have since been reversed by Trump. And in his speech dedicating the center, Obama criticized his successor without saying his name.

Barack Obama· Soundbite1:17

For us to give in now, after all this country's been through, to cynicism and division, would be a betrayal of our founding ideas.

Speaker 31:26

Trump, on the other hand, criticizes Obama by name frequently