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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. Lime from NPR News and Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Warren Iran is stalling oil shipping in the Persian Gulf region. Six ships have been attacked in the past two days, according to a British maritime tracking service. That includes two oil tankers that have been hit in Iraqi territorial waters. This is the first oil-related strike on
Iran's neighbor and ally Iraq in this war. Iraq now says it's halting operations at all. Its oil terminals. And pears Jenerav has more on the attacks. A port official said the attack early Thursday targeted vessels in an area of bus report. Iraqi officials said one person was killed in the strike while 31 crew members were rescued.
“Iraq's security spokesman called it an act of sabotage.”
The ships were flagged in the Marshall Islands in Malta, but shipping records show one of the tankers owned by a new Jersey-based company. Iran has stepped up its attacks on oil installations and shipping. In response to U.S. and Israeli strikes, saying the world should be ready for oil prices to double. Jenerav and Pyrenees, Erbil, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. President Trump said last night that oil prices would come down because an international
group is going to release some of its oil stockpile.
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. But oil prices are not falling. The price of the benchmark Brent Crude is near $100
“of barrel. The motoring club AAA says U.S. gas prices climbed again overnight to an average”
of $3.60 per gallon. That's about 60 cents higher than before the war started two weeks ago. The U.N. Security Council is condemning Iran for launching missiles and drones at Gulf Arab nations. Russia and China argue that the Council should also be criticizing the U.S. and Israel for launching the war as NPR's Michelle Kellman reports. Russia and China abstained allowing the resolution drafted by Bahrain to pass
U.S. Ambassador Mike Welts 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 selling 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 for sealing events as countries didn't muster enough strength to call out those who started
this war, the U.S. and Israel, Michelle Kellman and PR news, the State Department. On Wall Street in pre-market trading, Dow futures are down to 100 points. This is NPR. The Social Security Administration is investigating new allegations that former staff or with President Trump's cost-cutting effort doge may have misused sensitive social security data. Separately some members of Congress are also investigating a whistleblower's complaint.
The Washington Post first reported that allegation it says a former doge worker retained
databases of personal information, a nearly every living American, the social security administration contradicted the claims of the whistleblower. The Justice Department has quietly restarted a program that allows some people with felony records or who are accused of certain felonies to regain their federal gun rights. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz has more. The 22 people the Justice Department approved to get their guns back lost their second
amendment rights because of felony convictions decades ago. The DOJ maintains that the people on this list pose no public safety risk and had committed their felony crimes many years ago. That is except for one, Arizona State Senator Jay Kaufman. He was indicted in an Arizona fake electric scheme from 2020. He received a pardon from Trump last year but still faces those charges in Arizona. A DOJ official said Hoffman poses no risk to public safety. Hoffman didn't respond
to NPR's request for comment. Jacqueline Diaz and PR news. NASA says that one of its old satellites has safely crashed into the Eastern Pacific Ocean as was expected. The Van Allen Probe A had been exploring Earth's radiation belts. This is NPR.
