NPR News: 07-09-2026 11PM EDT

Giles Snyder· Host0:00

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Iran's late supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been laid to rest months after the US and Israeli airstrikes that killed him. NPR's Hadiel Al-Shalchi reports.

Hadil Al-Shalchi0:14

Earlier in the day, Iranian state media showed huge crowds swarming the truck carrying the casket of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and four of his killed family members as it made its way through his birthplace, Mashhad. People wearing black spilled into the streets to perform the ritual Islamic funeral prayers facing the caskets draped in the Iranian flag. Iranian state media reported that army fighter jets were flying over the skies of Mashhad to secure them for the last day of the funeral. On Wednesday, US CENTCOM said it struck Iranian military installations in retaliation for Iranian strikes on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by targeting US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. Hadiel Al-Shalchi, NPR News, Istanbul.

Giles Snyder· Host0:58

The latest exchange of fire between the US and Iran has gas prices on the rise again, as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports.

Joe Hernandez1:05

The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded was three dollars and eighty-five cents on Thursday, according to AAA. But that number surpassed four dollars and fifty cents in May and was as low as two dollars and seventy-nine cents in January, the organization found. Personal finance experts say the seesaw of gas prices can be an added stress on consumers trying to budget for fuel. It's also changing how they buy.