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-pear music podcast on the NPR app or wherever you get podcasts. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump visited Ohio in Kentucky today as he tries to steady voters' concerns about searching gas prices after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. Earlier today the International Energy Agency agreed to coordinate the release of a record
400 million barrels of oil from various national petroleum reserves around the world, which will substantially reduce the oil prices as we end this threat to America and this threat to the world. He spoke in the northern Kentucky district of Republican Congressman Thomas
Massey, whom Trump wants to see defeated in a Republican primary next month.
“Massey has opposed Trump on several top issues including the war in Iran.”
An investigation by the U.S. military now suggests that the deadly bombing of Iranian girl school was caused by an American Tomahawk missile, and PR's Quill Lawrence reports about 175 students and staff were killed in the strike. A U.S. government official not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to NPR that the Pentagon's investigation into the missile strike is looking at how this targeting error occurred,
not whether the U.S. was responsible. President Trump suggested this week that Iran fired the missile, but the U.S. is the only country in the conflict that has Tomahawk's.
NPR previously reported that the girl's school may have been shown on outdated U.S. intelligence
maps as a military building. If confirmed it would rank among the worst incidents of U.S. inflicted civilian casualties in decades. A special Pentagon office to prevent accidental targeting of civilians, created by Congress, was scaled back to a skeleton crew by Secretary of Defense Pete Higgs-F, soon after he took office last year. Quill Lawrence and PR News. A mixed day for the markets today is the price of oil rose again, but inflation
held steady. As in PR's Maria Aspen reports, the Dow dropped the S&P 500 was down slightly, and the tech heavy NASDAQs saw a slight gain. The global oil supply got some relief from the war with Iran, after countries in the international energy agency agreed to release strategic reserves, but the price of brand crude oil still went up, and U.S. stock markets still went down. Investors also shrugged off the latest government data on inflation, which held steady
last month, in line with economists' expectations. But that data was collected before the war in the Middle East started driving up gas prices. There was some good news for tech investors, shares an Oracle sword after Larry Ellison's software company reported earnings that beat expectations, and reassured some of Wall Street's ongoing anxiety about an AI bubble. Maria Aspen and PR News. The Trump administration is restarting the global entry program just
over two weeks after it halted the service for travelers because of the partial government shutdown, global entry allows pre-approved low-risk travelers to use expedited kiosks when entering the U.S. This is NPR News. Virginia lawmakers are pushing to curtail a tax break for data centers. It comes as many communities are trying to defeat data center projects, and some states are reconsidering their sales tax exemptions. The governor and other high-ranking lawmakers
say their concern, taxes would end industry investment in the state. Officials have until Saturday to agree on a and pass a budget. Student loan borrowers could be getting wrong information from the companies that manage their loans, and it's according to the non-partisan government accountability office. PR's a Corey Turner has more. GAO found the U.S. Department of Education
“stopped two key pieces of oversight under President Trump. One, staff used to listen back to”
recordings of phone calls between borrowers and call center workers to make sure they were getting accurate information. And two, department staff would do special data accuracy checks, because loan service records can be pretty unreliable. Before these reviews stopped, GAO found that four of the five servicers failed that data check. The Trump administration says these reviews do not meaningfully measure service or performance, but department officials told GAO the problem was
staff capacity. The reviews stopped early last year as the administration began cutting the student loan office by nearly half. Corey Turner and PR news. The purple orchid lay that adorn the necks of tourists and locals in Hawaii often aren't made in the Aloha state, but are imported from Thailand. Some Hawaiian lawmakers think the state should be doing more to help make sure they're made with locally grown fragrant flowers, but some lay sellers worry that restrictions could
boost prices. I'm Ryland Barton. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
