"Live from NPR News and Washington, I'm Core of a Coleman.
A British maritime organization says three ships have been hit in the Persian Gulf region.
“The crew evacuated one ship in the straight of Hormuz after a caught fire.”
That's apparently been put out. Meanwhile, the US military says it attacked and sank, 16 Iranian vessels that can plant mines in the water. Gas prices have increased across the US since the start of the war, and beer's A.A. The Batrawi reports, fuel costs are also rising in other parts of the world."
In Egypt, where inflation is on the rise, and millions live just at or below the poverty line, fuel prices have gone up, impacting drivers and potentially the cost of taxis, but also micro buses that many rely on for transportation. In Thailand, government employees are being asked to use the stairs and walk from home
to save on energy as fuel costs are also rise.
Meanwhile, India is curbing, cooking gas supplies to hotels and commercial businesses to prioritize households, hospitals and schools. And in Nigeria, fuel prices have shut up as much as 40% in some cities since the start
“of the US is really war-neuron, that sparked panic buying in long lines at gas stations.”
International energy agency countries are discussing in Paris today whether to release some strategic oil reserves as an emergency measure. A.A. Batrawi and Pyrenees, Dubai. A new NPRPBS news-marist poll finds that most Americans oppose the US and Israeli war in Iran.
And Piers' Domenico Montanaro says nearly 1,600 people were surveyed last week. 56% say that they are against the military action, just 36% approve of Trump's handling of the Iran War, and 55% say that they see Iran as only a minor threat or no threat at all, and that mirrors Trump's lower approval ratings that we found on other issues. And Piers' Domenico Montanaro reporting.
Special congressional election in Georgia held yesterday will now go to a run-off in April. Democrats Sean Harris will face Republican Clay Fuller who is endorsed by President Trump.
“They're running to fill the seat of former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green.”
A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that prediction markets are evading the law. And Piers' Bobby Allen reports there are more than 20 federal lawsuits pending over the future of the betting craze. U.S. District Judge Sarah Morrison says, "Apps like calcium, polymarket are no different than gambling."
Calshy argued it should not be regulated like a gambling operation because it's technically a type of futures contract, not a gambling site. But billions of dollars are spent every week on Calshy, where people bet on who will win the latest season of survivor, whether Trump will say midnight hammer, and how many times sports announcers will say the word foul.
And her ruling, Morrison wrote, "Treating this as anything other than gambling is absurd."
She says it plans to appeal, nearly $6 billion was traded in the past week on Calshy
and Polymarket, which is up nearly 2,000 percent from last year, Bobby Allen and PR news. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. There have been long lines at major airports this week, security agents for the transportation security administration still are not getting paid. The DSA is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
The agency remains partially shut down, the Democratic lawmakers are demanding changes in how federal immigration agents operate after agents shot and killed protesters. President Trump's new nominee to lead DHS, Oklahoma Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullin, has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. He would replace Christy Nome, whom Trump fired last week.
A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University showed the active ingredient in magic mushrooms could help smokers quit the habit, and PRs will stone has more. The study enrolled just over 80 current smokers who were randomly separated into two groups. One used a nicotine patch. The other ingested a relatively high dose of pure psilocybin, just one time.
At the six month mark, the psilocybin group had more than six times greater odds of being abstinent from cigarettes than their counterparts who had nicotine. Matthew Johnson at Johns Hopkins led the study. I was surprised by the sheer magnitude of the effect. Everyone in the trial also underwent 13 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy.
Recent interest in psychedelics has mostly focused on depression and other mental health conditions. psilocybin could be considered for drug approval in the next few years. Will stone and PR news? Significant damage is being reported from tornadoes in Indiana and Illinois yesterday.
Officials in Newton County, Indiana, say that two people have been killed. I'm Crore for Coleman, NPR News, and Washington.
