Line from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, President Trump took ques...
yesterday about the U.S. and Israeli war in Iran.
“He's been giving conflicting reasons for why he launched the attack.”
NPR's Mara Lyasin says Trump declared what he's looking for now. The dominant message was declaring victory. And after you did a declare victory, you tend to look for an offram. The quote, "This was just an excursion where close to finishing very soon," he talked about. He said, "We've already won, but then in the next breath," he said, "but we haven't
won enough, and we're determined to achieve total victory." NPR is Mara Lyasin reporting. The U.S. and Israel continue to fire at Iran, and Iran is firing back at its neighbors. Bahrain says, "And Iranian attack hit a residential building in its capital," at least one person was killed.
Officials in the United Arab Emirates say they've intercepted Iranian missiles and drones. The war has contributed to volatility in the oil markets. Officials with the group of seven industrialized nation spoke yesterday, they say their prepared to release crude oil reserves to bolster world oil supply, but they haven't done it yet.
“Meanwhile, energy secretary Chris Wright says the U.S.”
considering a release of oil from its own reserves. From Colorado Public Radio, Isha'n Takor has more. During a tour of a natural gas plant in Colorado, Wright said the U.S. is considering "coordinated releases of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve."
The SPR sits on the Gulf Coast and currently holds more than 400 million barrels of oil.
The war in Iran is choking global oil supplies. Accordinated release from countries like the U.S. France, Canada, and more could help stabilize prices. Here's Wright. We do have our gasoline and our diesel and our jet fuel prices up.
That hurts American citizens, consumers. We are doing everything we can to alleviate that. The average gas price in the U.S. has already jumped about 50 cents in a week, according to AAA.
“No decision has been made yet about a release.”
For MPR News, I'm Isha'n Takor in Plattville, Colorado. U.S. air travelers are still seeing long, weight times at airport security check points around the country.
And Pira's jewel rose has more.
Security lines snaked out of the terminal and into the parking garage. Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans. At Houston's hobby, airport passengers waited three hours or more at security check points on Sunday. Austin Quayar was trying to get home to Chicago.
We were going to try to look at getting earlier fights, but we came and get up to ask him at this point. The Department of Homeland Security blamed the long lines on the partial government shutdown. Workers at the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, have been working without pay for more than three weeks.
Their lawmakers and the White House failed to agree on changes to how immigration officers operate. Joel Rose and PR News, Washington. You're listening to NPR News. There are more elections today.
There's a special election in the Georgia Congressional District formerly held by Republican Marjorie Taylor Green. There are 17 candidates all running against each other because party affiliation does not matter in today's Georgia election. separately, Mississippi is holding its primary elections today to select candidates for
this year's midterm elections. A new study finds that social media use can be linked to symptoms of mental health problems and substance abuse in children and adolescents. NPR's retouchaturgy reports, the link between social media use and depression, was stronger for kids in their early teens.
The study was a meta-analysis of more than 150 previously published studies involving nearly 19,000 participants. Researchers found that social media use among children and adolescents was consistently associated with higher levels of depression, self-harm, substance use and behavioral issues.
It was also linked to poor academic performance and poorer perception of oneself. The study also looked at impacts of video games on kids and found them to be linked with aggression and other behavioral concerns. View games were also linked to modest increases in attention and executive functioning. The results are published in JAMA Pediatrics, Retouchaturgy and PR news.
The National Weather Service is warning the central and southern planes today of the strong chance of severe weather. That could include hail and a few tornadoes. This comes after last Friday's deadly tornado outbreak that killed eight people for them in Michigan.
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