NPR News: 07-20-2026 2PM EDT

Lakshmi Singh· Host0:01

Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is expected to attend the dignified transfer of two service members killed in the war with Iran. NPR's Hadiel Al-Shalchi has more.

Hadil Al-Shalchi0:14

The U.S. military said another U.S. service member was killed in action in northern Iraq on Saturday. The member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordinance from a downed Iranian drone. Another member was wounded in that incident. It also said that it found unidentified remains at the same location in Jordan, where two service members were killed in action and another went missing. It was unclear whether this person was a U.S. service member or not. This brings the total number of U.S. service members killed in this war to seventeen. More than four hundred have been injured. Iranian officials said over three thousand people have been killed in this war, with at least fifty in these latest rounds of strikes. Hadiel Al-Shalchi, NPR News, Istanbul.

Lakshmi Singh· Host0:57

A federal judge is temporarily blocking Paramount's attempt to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery. Today, the court imposed a fourteen-day pause as a coalition of state attorneys general sue to derail the deal they have called anti-competitive. Paramount says delaying the transaction will harm entertainment workers. For each calendar day the merger is delayed after September thirtieth, Paramount CEO David Ellison would be on the hook for a twenty-five cent per share ticking fee that amounts to about seven million dollars a day. The United Kingdom