NPR News: 06-23-2026 10AM EDT

Korva Coleman· Host0:00

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Stocks opened lower this morning, fueled by a sell-off in technology shares. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the tech-heavy NASDAQ has tumbled more than three hundred fifty points in early trading.

Scott Horsley0:15

What goes up sometimes comes down, and that's the story for tech stocks this week. Once high-flying chip stocks are losing some momentum as the threat of higher interest rates takes some air out of the artificial intelligence boom. Shares in SpaceX have also fallen back to Earth. SpaceX shares extended their losses today after tumbling sixteen percent on Monday, a drop that shaved some four hundred billion dollars off the company's market value. Meanwhile, federal regulators have launched a probe into Elon Musk's other company after a Tesla Model 3 slammed into a home in Texas at high speed, killing a seventy-six-year-old woman inside. The Tesla was using an automated driving feature at the time. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.

Korva Coleman· Host0:55

The U.S. is temporarily lifting sanctions against Iranian oil for two months. It's an incentive to get Iran to comply with its part of the understanding with the U.S. to end the war. Vice President Vance says this will let UN nuclear inspectors back into the country. But NPR's Aya Batrawy reports these inspectors have already been in Iraq.

Aya Batrawy1:16

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency that Vance is referring to was in the United Arab Emirates earlier this month, and I was there when Rafael Grossi said inspectors are already in Iran and had visited small labs in places that hadn't