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The Israeli military says the strikes have been named at targets in the Iranian capital.
“And they come a day after President Trump said he told Israel not to repeat strikes on a”
Iranian gas infrastructure. I told him don't do that and he's won't do that. We didn't discuss, you know, we didn't do. We're independent. We get along great. It's coordinated. But on occasion, he'll do something. And if I don't like it. And so we're not doing that anymore. Trump speaking at the White House Thursday alongside the visiting Japanese Prime Minister
on social media, Trump said he was not informed in advance of Israel's attack on Iran's South-Parse gas field. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel acted alone to protest strikes on energy facilities have led to sharply escalating prices.
And as the Iran war escalates, a Trump administration plans to release 150 million
barrels of oil for the nation's strategic petroleum reserve from Houston Public Media
“Natalie Weber reports at experts say the release will have little effect on the cost”
at the pop. The nation's oil reserve is stored in underground salt caverns along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas. Chairman on Krishna Morty is a petroleum engineering professor at the University of Houston. He says the reserve locations are also near several refineries and in close proximity
to Texas oil fields. However, he says the oil release is unlikely to have a long-term effect on energy prices. It's a great bandage, but you know, you're sucked to run out of bandage pretty quickly. The strategic petroleum reserve currently holds enough oil to sustain US consumption for about 20 days.
For NPR News, I'm Natalie Weber in Houston. California Governor Gavin Newsom is supporting a plan to rename the state holiday name for Saisar Chavez as Farm Workers Day. The move comes after news, sexual misconduct allegations against the late labor leader. It's for the surfaced earlier this week as free to Chavala Romero reports from Member Station KQED.
Maria Garcia is a member of the United Farm Workers, which Chavis and labor icon Dolores Huerta co-founded in the 1960s. Garcia, like many other California farm workers, is still struggling to believe that a man who fought hard for basic rights could sexually abuse Huerta and underage girls decades ago.
“It's too much, she says. If it's true, why wasn't this spoken about before? Why until now?”
In a statement, the UFW called the allegations profoundly shocking. Other farm workers say they want this moment of reckoning to help prevent similar crimes in the future. For NPR News, I'm Fareta Javala Romero in Oakland, California. This is NPR. A senior vice president of super micro-computer and two others affiliated with the
company have been charged with conspiring to smuggle at least two and a half billion dollars
of computer servers with advanced Nvidia chips to China. The indictment was on sealed in federal court to Manhattan on Thursday. The U.S. has had export restrictions on China for advanced AI chips since 2022. The Justice Department says two of them had been arrested. A third remains a fugitive. A private investigator has been trying to convince the UK not to send him to the U.S. to face charges of orchestrating a hacking campaign against climate activists.
NPR's Michael Koppley reports a court in London has denied the appeal. The private investigator is an Israeli named Amit Forlet. He was arrested in London in 2024. Federal charges against Forlet include conspiracy to commit computer hacking. He's denied ever ordering or paying for hacking. A lawyer representing U.S. authorities in London confirmed Forlet's request to appeal extradition was denied. U.S. prosecutors alleged the hacking operation was commissioned
by a former lobbyist for Exxon Mobile, with the goal of discrediting climate activists
and fighting lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry. Exxon Mobile has said it's never been
involved in or aware of any hacking activities. Michael Koppley and PR news. Federal panel made up of members of pointed bipartisan and Trump has green lit a commemorative coin featuring his image. The coin-wending animus approval Thursday for the commission of fine arts. It's 24-air gold coin and is to be part of a series of coins U.S. Mint is planning to produce to mark the 250th birthday.
