NPR News: 07-20-2026 4PM EDT

Lakshmi Singh· Host0:01

Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The 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. Here's NPR's Jane Arraf.

Jane Arraf0:16

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.

Lakshmi Singh· Host1:01

Wildfires burning across Ontario are growing, nearing two million acres, prompting mass evacuations from remote areas. Thick smoke from fires in Canada and parts of Minnesota continues to trigger air quality alerts in the Midwest to the northeastern US. President Trump says maybe Canada should pay for that. Today, Ontario Premier Doug Ford noted Canada has been there for the US.

Doug Ford· Soundbite1:22

Rather than criticize and threaten, uh, Canada, your closest friends, maybe one day you're gonna need our help like you did last year,