NPR News: 07-20-2026 10AM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey. The US Department of Defense says another service member has been killed in the war with Iran, and it has identified two other casualties of an Iranian attack in Jordan Friday. NPR's Jane Arraf has details.

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Central Command says a service member was killed in a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. And the Pentagon announced the names of two military personnel killed in an Iranian missile strike Friday on an air base in Jordan. It said they were First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, twenty-five, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii. Private Isabella Gonzalez of Carrollton, Texas, died a day later. She was nineteen. Both were with air defense artillery regiments. The US military says seventeen service people have now been killed in the war with Iran. Iran says about three thousand Iranians have been killed, many of them civilians. Jane Arraf, NPR News, Amman.

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The United Kingdom has a new prime minister. Andy Burnham took office today, replacing Keir Starmer, who was ousted by his own center-left Labor Party. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from London.

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In his first speech as prime minister, Andy Burnham acknowledged that he is the seventh occupant of Ten Downing Street in a decade and said he wants to restore confidence in this country.

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Britain needs to show the world that we can regain our stability