NPR News Now
NPR News Now

NPR News: 03-16-2026 12AM EDT

13h ago4:40794 words
0:000:00

NPR News: 03-16-2026 12AM EDTTo manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage yo...

Transcript

EN

"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Roman.

As President Trump returned to Washington from Florida, he told reporters he had

"demanded that about seven nations that are heavily reliant on the Middle East oil

"joined the coalition to protect the critical, straight-of-horn moods, of which about 20%

of the world's oil flows through. Trump did not say what nations that he had spoken with, but did say they should come in and quote, "protect their own territory." A board-air force one Sunday night, Trump discussed the military situation in the straight. "It only takes a couple of people to screw up the straight, a couple of territory.

You don't need their militaries to be in it, but all you need is to give people dropping minds here and there and you allow them to die." The run over the weekend threatened to strike the oil infrastructure of its neighbor, the United Arab Emirates. In the first two weeks of the U.S. war with Iran, the average gasoline price is surged

to $3.70 a gallon that's according to AAA. Crewed oil prices are now hovering about $100 a barrel, but as the war continues, the Trump administration insists the spike in prices will be short-lived, NPR's Luke Garrett reports.

During the war, Iran has largely closed the straight-of-horn moods, a key shipping lane

for the world's oil and economy. And energy secretary Chris Wright told ABC News, "The war will quote certainly and soon." The conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks, and we'll see a rebound in supplies and pushing down a price after that.

The energy secretary then argued the war will ultimately make gas cheaper.

This is short-term pain to get through to a much better place where the Middle East can no longer be held hostage by the one "rogation" in Iran." But Wright also said, "There's no guarantees in wars." Luke Garrett and Pyrenees, Washington. The 98th Academy Awards saw one big after another win-big with six awards, including

best-pictured director supporting actor and casting. The Academy Awards also brought some other surprises. Here's NPR's Bob Mondello. Best actress went as widely expected due to Jesse Buckley, who played Will Shakespeare's wife Ania's in the historical drama.

Michael B. Jordan took home best actor for playing two characters, the smoke stack,

brothers, smoke, and stack in the blues-inflicted thriller "Cinners." "So, I'll kill you, sir." "Oh, we're sorry." "You'll always be." Seriously unhinged characters dominated the supporting categories, Sean Penn, who already

has two best actor Oscars, one best supporting actor, for his volatile Colonel Lockjaw in one battle after another, and best supporting actress went to Amy Madigan's Witchy and Gladys in the horror film Whippens, Bob Mondello and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News. The United States has advanced to the finals of the pre-season world baseball classic

Tuesday night in Miami by hanging on to beat the Dominican Republic to the one Sunday night. The US will not play the winner of Monday's other semi-final game between Venezuela and Italy. Home runs from short-stop gun or Henderson of the Baltimore Orioles, and Boston Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony Pace, the American team, which also played solid defense behind the starting pitching of Paul Schins of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

A line of thunderstorms with high winds is stretching through Arkansas, Tennessee, and into the Ohio Valley, tornado watches are in effect, Kimmel Barris from member station WPLN reports from Nashville, the weather could cause extensive power outages. Heavy rain and wind gusts as high as 75 miles per hour are sweeping through much of middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky.

Media rouges are categorizing the severe storms as a level 3 out of 5 risk, and are expecting the most impact to hit in the early morning hours. The cold front will follow with temperatures dropping down to the low 30s. This may include light snow and a hard freeze by Monday evening. A recent ice storm left thousands of Tennessee ends without power for days, but city officials

say they are prepared for potential power outages caused by high winds and broken trees. For NPR news, I'm Camilla Burris and Nashville. Trade and economic negotiations between the United States and China have begun and Paris the talks are expected to pave the way for talks later this month between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

I'm Dan Runa and NPR news.

The film centers has gotten a lot of attention during this award season, but why?

If centers winds, the Oscar for Best Picture, it is because of how Hollywood wants to see it, so listen to code switch in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Compare and Explore