NPR News: 07-15-2026 11PM EDT

Giles Snyder· Host0:00

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Iran has released an American woman who's been trapped in the country for the past year and a half. President Trump calls it a goodwill gesture, and her lawyer says the release would not have happened without Trump's support, as NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.

Michelle Kellerman0:18

Dana Kurari is a dual US-Iranian citizen who's been trapped in Iran since December of 2024. In a message on social media, President Trump says she is now safely outside Iran and in good condition. Her lawyer, Jared Genser, writes in a statement that Kurari was subjected to what he calls a coercive exit ban and was interrogated dozens of times and suffered enormous hardships, though she was not in prison. He says she drew the attention of Iranian authorities because she runs a nonprofit that has a US Treasury Department license to collect private donor support for poor children in Iran. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Washington.

Giles Snyder· Host0:59

Word of Dana Kurari's release came amid ongoing attacks by the US and Iran. The US military says it has completed the latest wave of strikes on Iranian military targets. Iran has been retaliating, firing missiles and drones early Thursday at targets in Bahrain and Kuwait. An appeals court has ordered a lower court to close a decades-old school desegregation case in Louisiana. The Gulf States Newsroom's Aubrey Johas reports.

Aubrey Johas1:24

The Fifth Circuit said in a ruling this week that the district court overstepped. When it denied a joint