Who should win the Oscar for the best original song this year?
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“I think Diane Warren should have won two Academy Awards.”
The problem is very often the lyrics are not much more insightful than you would find on the nearest
throw pillow. Here the in-peer music podcast on the NPR app or wherever you get podcasts. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The US will release 172 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help stabilize world markets. That's part of a coordinated release of stockpiles from 32 different nations, which was announced earlier today, and PR's Camilla Dominozki reports.
The countries in the international energy agency have unanimously agreed to their largest ever release from emergency stockpiles. Here's IEA executive director Fati Birol. IEA countries will be making 400 million barrels of oil available. I repeat 400 million barrels of
“oil available. Nearly 40 percent of those barrels will come from the US reserve,”
released gradually over the next four months. Experts say tapping into stockpiles can only
partially address the disruption of oil trade caused by the war with Iran. Camilla Dominozki and PR news. The UN Security Council is condemning Iran for launching missiles and drones at Gulf Arab countries. Russia and China argue that the Council should also be criticizing the US and Israel for launching the war, as NPR's Michelle Kalman reports. Russia and China abstained, allowing the resolution drafted by Bahrain to pass US ambassador Mike Waltz says it had a record number of
co-sponsors, 135 countries, in a sign of just how united the world is against Iranian missile and drone strikes. Iran's strategy of so-in chaos of trying to hold their neighbors hostage has clearly backfired, and that was shown by this vote today. Russia's ambassador proposed a
“different text, but that one failed. Faciline events as countries didn't muster enough strength”
to call out those who started this war, the US and Israel. Michelle Kalman and PR news,
the State Department. President Trump took aim at Congressman Thomas Massey during a rally in Kentucky today. He's the Republican detractor of the president who's up for reelection. Kentucky Public Radio's Sylvia Goodman has more. Appearing in Hebrew in Kentucky, which is in Massey's district, Trump called the Congressman "the worst person." Thomas Massey is a disaster for upparty. He comes from a state that I won by a landslide, got the highest vote in the history of of
your commonwealth. Massey, a fiscal hawk, voted no on Trump's major tax and spending package to the one big beautiful bill. He's also pushed for the release of the Epstein files. More recently, Massey supported a war power's resolution to require congressional approval before Trump pursues further military action in Iran. It failed. Trump heavily promoted former Navy seal Ed Gowl-Rine, Massey's primary challenger. From PR news, I'm Sylvia Goodman in Hebrew.
In inflation, state elevated last month as gas prices rose and those prices are expected to push inflation even higher when data for this month is released in early April. This is NPR News. Lift has agreed to protect the rights of blind and disabled writers to travel with service animals under a Minnesota settlement that applies nationwide. State officials announced the deal in the case of a college student who said that drivers repeatedly refused to let her
service dog ride along. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights says lift now has to train drivers on disability rights and warn them they can lose access to the platform if they violate the law. Britain is ending her redditary seats in the upper house of parliament. The move ends a tradition dating back centuries as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from London. They're called hereditary peers and all 92 of them are white men with an average age of about 70.
They've inherited their seats in parliament many by male-only bloodlines that go back centuries. They're used to be more of them in the more than 800 seat house of lords but reforms back in 1999 capped their numbers and now hereditary peerage is being eliminated altogether. In a compromise reached by political parties they will be able to sit in parliament through the end of the current session which is likely in May and some of them will be able to keep their seats until they die
but will not be able to pass them on to descendants. Lauren Frayer and PR News London. An old NASA science satellite has plunged to Earth the Van Allen probe a crashed down in the Pacific west of the Galapacos Islands launched in 2012 it flew through the Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth studying them for seven years before ceasing its twin the Van Allen probe is still orbiting Earth but no longer functioning. You're listening to NPR News from
