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additional strikes on a key Iranian oil export hub while urging U.S. allies to send their
“ships to secure the straight of Hormuz. NPR's law and fair reports the United Kingdom”
says it's discussing ways to respond to Trump's demand." President Trump has already expressed anger at the UK for granting the U.S. only limited access to British military bases during this war. And only after Iran retaliated against British allies in the Gulf, did UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer allow the U.S. to use British bases, but for defensive operations only. Now, Trump is demanding the UK and for other countries. China, Japan,
South Korea, and France send warships to the straight of Hormuz. In response to the UK Ministry of Defense says the British government is "discussing with our allies and partners a range of options to ensure the security of shipping in the region. Lauren Fryer and PR News London." About one fifth of the world's supply of liquified natural gas is still cut off from
“the world with the straight of Hormuz still effectively blocked, and PR's Julia Simon reports,”
U.S. gas producers are making new deals. U.S. L.N.G. company venture global has announced
it's gotten another $8.6 billion in financing for an L.N.G. export project in Louisiana.
Venture global stock price has risen more than 35 percent since the U.S. is really war with Iran began two weeks ago. The U.S. is already the biggest L.N.G. producer in the world, supplying more than half of Europe's L.N.G. While it takes time to build new L.N.G. terminals, energy experts tell NPR, the U.S. L.N.G. industry is seizing this moment while supplies from the Persian Gulf are offline. Julia Simon and PR News. A federal jury in Texas has convicted nine
people on various charges in connection with the shooting outside of an ice detention center last July. The Trump administration is calling it the first case tying alleged anti-fascist activists to domestic terrorism, to Alani O.C. Bamaow from the Liberation K.E.R.A. reports. Nine people were accused of playing a role in the night that ended in the non-fatal shooting of a police officer outside the Prairie Land Attention Center in Alvarado, Texas. The shooter
Benjamin Song was convicted of attempted murder. Eight other defendants were convicted on lesser charges, including rioting and providing material support to terrorists. Prosecutors called it a pre-plan to tack motivated by the defendant's anarchist anti-ice anti-fascist beliefs. The defendants argued it was planned as a peaceful protest against the Trump administration's
immigration policies and that they never intended for things to get violent. For NPR News,
I'm Toluwani O.C. Bammow in Fort Worth. This is NPR News in Washington. The Academy Awards will be handed out tonight in Los Angeles. The Oscars will be broadcast on ABC and streaming platforms. NPR's Mandelita Barco reports comedian Co. Nov Ryan is hosting the ceremony this year. The big prize that the Oscars could be a showdown between two of the 10 films vying for Best Picture. Centers, the supernatural thriller set in the Jim Crow South,
has a record-breaking 16 nominations. Ryan Couglar is a for Best Director and for Best Actor, Michael B. Jordan, he plays two roles as a twin smoke and stack. Be careful, our wheel. Centers is facing one battle after another, which was written directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. He's nominated as Best Director and the film stars Best Actor nominee Leonardo DeCaprio.
He plays a washed-up revolutionary. Also competing for Best Picture, our Hamlet, Sentimental Value,
Train Dreams, the Secret Agent, Bagonia F1, Frankenstein and Marty Supreme, Mandelita Barco, NPR News. The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heatwatch warning for large parts of the West Coast. Southern California and Arizona could see temperatures climb above 100 degrees, along the California Coast cities from San Diego and Los Angeles to San Francisco could see temperatures rise into the 80s and 90s. Mediarologists warn the early season heat could be
dangerous because many people are not yet acclimated to such high temperatures this time of year. I'm Mr. Johnston NPR News in Washington. It's tax season and you might be tempted to use a tax hack that you see on social media, but not so fast. You watch it, you're like, "Oh, that seems interesting, right?"
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