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Supreme Leader has released his first statement, "Maya to let much toba haminate," says

Iran should continue to control the straight-of-horse moves.

Iran is effectively shut down oil-shipping through that narrow body of water. The statement delivered across Iranian official media was accompanied by a still-foot of haminate. It was read in Farsi by a news reader on Iranian official media. It is heard here through an interpreter on CNN.

And also mentioned about how the closing the Hormuz estate should be used and re-opinate if the war is stopped. And it was chosen by Iranian clerics to take over the Supreme Leader's job after his father, the former Supreme Leader was killed on the first day of the war. And as remarks today, he also said Iran would continue striking bases in the Persian Gulf

region. The war also continues in Lebanon, Iran's proxying militia has been firing rockets into Israel.

Israel is also attacking parts of Lebanon.

Israel's been telling people to flee, some 800,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon. It's opened lower this morning as oil prices topped $90 a barrel. And B.R. Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points in early trading. News of the U.S. and other countries plan to tap their emergency stockpiles of crude oil

did little to slow the rise in prices, retail gasoline prices were also up overnight. Tanker traffic to the straight of Hormuz remains largely stalled as Iran retaliates for attacks by the U.S. and Israel. The laid figures from the Commerce Department show the U.S. trade deficit narrowed in January

to 54 and a half billion dollars, exports were up during the month while imports were slightly

down. New applications for unemployment benefit showed little change last week, 213,000 people applied for jobless aid.

That suggests that while employers are not adding many jobs, they're not issuing a lot

of pink slips either. Scott Horsley and Pianu is Washington. The Trump administration is trying a new way to reinstate terrorists after the Supreme Court struck down his original levies, then bears more Elias and explains. The White House announced new trade investigations into unfair trading practices by 16

of America's largest trading partners. The trade investigations will focus on excess capacity of foreign countries' manufacturing sectors, which the Trump administration claims causes large U.S. trade deficits with those countries. The targets include China, the European Union, South Korea, Mexico, Japan, and India.

Jameson Greer, the United States' trade representative, said none of the countries would be surprised, but many of those countries have negotiated trade deals with the U.S. and it's not clear what will happen to those agreements. And Pianu is more Eliason. This is NPR.

An architect from Chile has won this year's Pritzker Prize. It is the most prestigious award in architecture, and Pianu is netta Ulubi has more. Only in Rattich designs innovative, avant-card buildings, most of them in Chile. They include theaters, restaurants, and then award-winning winery. He's also created stores around the world for the high-fashion brand Alexander McQueen.

That's Rattich describing how he's inspired by found objects in a social media video from Alexander McQueen. Rattich was born in 1965 in Santiago. His father's family is from Croatia. His mother is from the United Kingdom.

When he accepted this award, he asked to also use her family's surname, Clark. He does not normally use it professionally, but he said he wanted to honor her. Netta Ulubi and PR news. The social security administration is investigating new allegations that a former staffer with President Trump's cost-cutting effort does may have misused sensitive social security

data. Separately, some members of Congress are also investigating a whistleblowers complaint.

The Washington Post first reported the whistleblowers allegation that says that a former

doge worker retained databases of personal information on nearly every living American. The social security administration in a statement to NPR has contradicted the claims of the whistleblower. Again, on Wall Street, the Dow is now down, 460 points. You're listening to NPR.

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