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US & Iran Plan To Meet Again, CBS: Colbert & Cooper, Social Media On Trial

US & Iran Plan To Meet Again, CBS: Colbert & Cooper, Social Media On Trial

Up First from NPR
Feb 18, 2026 13 min
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U.S. and Iranian negotiators agree to keep talking after meetings in Geneva, even as President Trump threatens military force and Tehran warns it could retaliate.<br>Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked a political guest from his late-night show, adding to a wave of upheaval involving Anderson Cooper and corporate maneuvering at the network’s parent company.<br>And Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand in a landmark trial testing whether social media companies can be held legally responsible for harming young users.<br/><br/><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? </em><a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a><em> to the Up First newsletter.<br></em><p class="readrate">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by James Hider, Pallavi Gogoi, Brett Neely, Mohamad ElBardicy and Alice Woelfle. <p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">It was produced by Ziad Buchh and Nia Dumas.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">Our director is Christopher Thomas.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">We get engineering support from Neisha Heinis. And our technical director is Simon-Laslo Janssen.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">Our Supervising Producer is Michael Lipkin.<p class="readrate">(0:00) Introduction<br>(01:55) US & Iran Plan To Meet Again<br>(05:26) CBS: Colbert & Cooper <br>(09:49) Social Media On Trial<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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