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Oil in gas prices continue to surge amid President Trump's war against Iran, in less
“than two weeks gasoline prices have jumped from under $3 per gallon to more than $3.60”
and the price of crude oil jumped up around 10% today hitting $100 per barrel. President Trump has pivoted from bragging about low gas prices earlier this year to now saying oil prices make the U.S. a lot of money because of oil production. Trump's desire to flex the U.S. is muscle on the global stage has come at odds with voters as costs rise ahead of November mid-term elections.
Dozens of Senate Democrats are demanding answers about a strike to a girl's school in Iran that left at least 165 dead, as NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports it appears the U.S. was responsible. The letter to defense secretary Pete Hagseth, Democratic senators demanded answers about the strike.
They wanted to know how the school came to be targeted, what weapon systems were used, and
whether artificial intelligence played a role in choosing targets in Iran.
“The letter comes a day after the news of preliminary assessment by the Pentagon found”
the U.S. was responsible for hitting the school. Iranian state media has published images showing parts from a U.S. made Tomahawk missile. It says was used in the strike, Jeff Brumfield and PR news. Big retailers like Costco and Amazon are facing pressure from lawmakers and class action lawsuits to share their tariff refunds with shoppers, big importers are still waiting to find
out when or how the Trump administration will return the money companies paid for those tariffs before they were struck down by the Supreme Court and PR's Alina Selju reports. Senator Ed Markey, the top Democrat on the Small Business Committee, has now written to some of the largest importers including UPS, Walmart and Amazon urging them to commit to refunding their shoppers and small business clients, any tariff expenses they passed down.
Costco and FedEx also faced the prospect of class action lawsuits from shoppers. When the Supreme Court struck down about half of President Trump's tariffs, it paved the way for importers to get refunded, but didn't say how. Big retailers have argued that they had actually absorbed most of the tariff costs, though some certainly trickle down as higher prices, Alina Selju and PR news.
Police say a man drove a truck into a Jewish synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan today, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bushard says security officers fired at him before he crashed through the doors. FBI, more than likely, will be taking lead on this based on some of the preliminary investigative information we have, but we're not going to go into that at this point.
Bushard says a body was found inside the truck and that something ignited in the vehicle. Police says the security guard was knocked unconscious, but will recover everyone inside the building has been accounted for and there were no other injuries. Where he's about the war with Iran sent stocks sliding today, the S&P 500 fell more than one and a half percent.
This is NPR news from Washington. British Prime Minister Kier Starmer is weathering fallout from his choice of Peter Mandelson as U.S. ambassador despite warnings about Mandelson's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, Starmer says he made a mistake in apologizing to Epstein's victims, documents show Starmer had been told that Mandelson's association with the sex offender post reputational
risks. Majorities of people from most religious groups in the U.S. favor abortion rights, that's according to a new study from Pew researchers and Piers Jason D'Rose reports. Nearly 6 in 10 Catholics and 7 in 10 black Protestants favor abortion being legal in all or most cases, the finding was similar for white Protestants who do not identify as evangelical
63 percent favor abortion rights.
The outlier was white evangelical Protestants. Among them three quarters opposed abortion being legal in all or most cases. Meanwhile among those religiously unafiliated, meaning atheists, diagnostics, or no religion in particular, more than 8 in 10 favor abortion rights. If you research surveyed more than 8,500 U.S. adults in late January, overall the study
found 60 percent, say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Jason D'Rose and PR news A vertical underground pipe has somehow pushed straight up more than 32 feet out of a busy street in Osaka Japan, nearly reaching an elevated road above the 11 foot diameter steel pipe rose up overnight unseen by any witnesses. Today, it was lowered after firefighters cut a hole in it, and officials say the road will
be closed for several more days. This is NPR News.
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