NPR News: 07-22-2026 7AM EDT

Dave Mattingly· Host0:01

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. U.S. Central Command says Iranian drone storage sites and aircraft hangars were among the targets hit as American forces attacked Iran for an eleventh consecutive night. President Trump will travel to Dover Air Force Base today to attend the dignified transfer of U.S. service members killed by Iranian airstrikes. NPR's Franco Ordoñez says the human cost of the war is putting pressure on the White House.

Franco Ordoñez0:30

Justin Logan directs foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, and he told me that the challenge of reduced munitions, for example, is kind of this abstract idea to most Americans. But what's not abstract at all is Americans coming back in coffins.

Justin Logan· Soundbite0:45

The public doesn't like this conflict, but they're not that exercised about it as yet. He knows that the one way to get them exercised about it is to have large amounts of Americans coming home in flag-draped coffins.

Franco Ordoñez0:58

And he said that more Americans who die, the more questions are gonna be asked about what the aims of the war, in fact, are.

Dave Mattingly· Host1:05

That's NPR's Franco Ordoñez. Candidates endorsed by President Trump are celebrating victories in yesterday's Republican primaries in Arizona. Ben Giles with member station KJZZ has more from Phoenix.

Ben Giles1:19

Former NFL placekicker Jay Feely won the Republican nomination in Congressional District One, according to a race call by the Associated Press. The Trump endorsee will face either Amesh Shah or Marlene