"Li from NPR News in Washington," 9 Corva Coleman, President Trump is issuing...
to Iran after it attacked the world's largest liquefied natural gas complex in Qatar.
“The Iranian attack came after yesterday's Israeli strike on the South, Paris, gasfield,”
and Iran. And Piers A.A. Betroy reports the Iranian attack on the facility in Qatar will have global implications. Qatar Energy says its Rus LaFan gas-tiliquid facility suffered extensive damage. Already Qatar has had to halt all gas production, disrupting global supplies and the
production of fertilizer. Qatar says other gas sites were further struck overnight by Iranian missiles.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps says it also struck a site in the Saudi Arabia that
U.S. fighter jets used for fueling. Qatar expelled Iranian military attires and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister convened Arab diplomats in the late last night saying Iran's attacks only deep in its isolation. President Trump wrote on social media the U.S. had no knowledge of the Israeli attack on the South, Paris, gasfield, and said there would be no more Israeli attacks on this
valuable site.
“He also warned if Iran doesn't stop attacking Qatar, the U.S. will blow up the entirety”
of this Iranian gasfield. A.A. Betroy and Piers News, Dubai. The attacks on the mid-East Energy Sites are sending oil prices higher, benchmark oil prices have risen to at least $114 a barrel that's compared to about $73 a barrel before the war started.
The motoring club AAA says the average cost of a gallon of regular gas is $3.88 a gallon
today. That's almost $1 a dollar higher than it was a month ago. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it is too soon to tell the wars of facts on the American economy. The implications of events in the Middle East for the U.S. economy are uncertain.
In the near term, higher energy prices will push up overall inflation, but it is too soon to know the scope and duration of the potential effects on the economy.
“He spoke as the Fed chose to hold interest rates steady yesterday.”
The nation's central bank is sticking with its forecast of just a quarter-point rate cut this year. Homeland Security Secretary nominates Senator Mark Wayne Mullin appeared at his Senate confirmation hearing and Piers' human abastio reports, Mullin appears to be trying to soften his tone and distance himself from some of the administration's hard-line rhetoric
on immigration. Mullin was asked about his initial remarks after the deadly shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretty, a U.S. citizen killed by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. He called Pretty, quote, "derranged," but during his confirmation, he walked that back. Those words probably should have been retracted.
I shouldn't have said that, and Secretary, I wouldn't. The investigation is ongoing, and, like I said, there's sometimes going to make mistake and I'll own it. I'll go in Secretary Kristi, known face by partisan pushback when she called Pretty a domestic terrorist, Mullin's critics question whether he'd strike a new tone in practice
as Homeland Security Chief. If I know, though, on his confirmation could happen as soon as next week, human abastio and Pier News Washington. You're listening to NPR. A federal immigration judge has denied asylum to a five-year-old immigrant boy and his family.
The case of Liam Keneho Ramos came to national attention this year after he was taken from his Minnesota home and put in a Texas detention center. A lawyer for Liam's family says they will appeal, but if they lose, the family is expected to be deported to their country of origin, Ecuador. The Senate has rejected a war power's resolution that would have limited President Trump's
military actions in Iran. The vote was 53 to 47, mostly on party lines, Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman voted to block the resolution Kentucky Republican Rand Paul voted to support it. The Senate defeated a "similar" resolution this month. The NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments will have a full slate of games today.
For member-station WDET and Detroit, Quinn Klein-Filter reports. The University of Michigan is one of four top seeds in the men's tournament, along with Duke Arizona and defending champion Florida. Michigan State also made the big dance, as it has for almost three consecutive decades. But head coach Tom Izzo says earning a spot in the tournament guarantees nothing.
"Thinking things for granted is always a recipe for disaster no matter what.
Whether it be a player, whether it be a coach, whether it be a fan base." Michigan and Michigan State also factor into the women's tournament, where the top seeds are Connecticut, Texas, UCLA, and South Carolina, the same teams who were in the final four championship last year. For NPR News, I'm Quinn Klein-Filter, into Detroit.
And I'm Koreva Coleman, NPR News, in Washington.
