"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
President Trump said on social media tonight he's considering winding down military efforts
in the Middle East.
“But earlier in the day his administration deployed more warships and another 2,500 Marines”
to the region nearly three weeks into the war, the U.S. and Israel launched against Iran. Iran has been firing on energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states and effectively closed off the state of Hormuz, choking off oil supplies and disrupting the global economy. Trump is calling on other countries to police the state." "It's a simple military maneuver.
It's relatively safe. But you need a lot of help in the sense of you need chips. You need volume. And NATO could help us, but they so far haven't had the courage to do so, and others could help us.
But, you know, we don't use it. You know, at a certain point, it'll open itself." Trump has said this week that the U.S. didn't need help securing the state while also accusing other countries of not helping. The average price of regular gas in the U.S. is now $3.91.
NPR's Camilla Dominozki reports Internet search data shows more people are considering electric vehicles. "Since the start of this month, the war in Iran has pushed gasoline prices up sharply. And on the autosite Edmonds, the share of shoppers considering electric vehicles grew about
15 percent to its highest level all year."
Now, searching for a vehicle is not the same as buying one. There are lots of factors in a purchase. Ivan jury is the Director of Insights at Edmonds. "The answer to, you know, $5 gallon gas is not buying a $50,000 car.
“But it's definitely something that you should put in your consideration," said.”
"But analysts say if prices remain high, it can push shoppers to put a higher value on fuel savings as they choose vehicles." Camilla Dominozki and PR news. "Shares in the computer server maker Super Micro plummeted today. This after a company co-founder and two others were charged with exporting banned AI
servers to China, and PR's at John Ruach has more." The U.S. attorneys office for the Southern District of New York says, "Super Micro Co-founder Willy Leaw and a company contractor were arrested. A third person is still at large. The indictment says they conspired to violate U.S. export controls.
The government bans the sale to China of certain cutting-edge microchips used in artificial intelligence. The Department of Justice says the three people and co-conspirators used brokers and a company
“in Southeast Asia to ship banned U.S. chips from Taiwan to China.”
The Southeast Asian company bought $2.5 billion worth of servers containing the chips between
2024 and 2025. The company says in a statement it was not named as a defendant and the conduct of the individual's alleged in the indictment violates company policies and compliance rules. John Ruach and PR News. Surging oil prices shook stock markets again today as hopes collapse for a possible cut
to interest rates laid to the sear by the Federal Reserve. This is NPR News. Jehovah's Witness leaders are modifying their rules on blood transfusions by letting members choose whether to store and reuse their own blood for medical care. They've maintained a ban on using others blood transfusions.
Former members say the change is an improvement but won't benefit people who lose blood in emergencies. Marshall Arts and Action Star Chuck Norris has died at the age of 86 Steve Futterman reports. Norris's path to Hollywood star them began as a Marshall Arts instructor. Among his clients and acquaintances were big-name stars, none bigger than Bruce Lee, who
put Norris in his 1972 film The Way of the Dragon. And featured him in the legendary fight scene between the two. By the 1980s with roles in the Delta Force and missing in Action Norris was himself a star. Reaction to his death has come from around the world including a number of his fellow Action Film performers, so Vester Stallone described him as all-American in every way.
And Jean-Claude Van Dam, who appeared with Norris in the expendables two, said the two knew each other for decades, he called him a friend. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. The zoo in Warsaw, Poland, has created a new emergency hospital for birds when someone brings in a wounded bird and places it in a metal box at the zoo entrance nearby vets get a signal.
Staff rushed the bird into the hospital making a diagnosis and start treatment. The zoo's bird hospital has operated since 1998 and treats about 9,000 birds a year. The zoo says many entries come from human-made hazards and climate change. This is NPR News from Washington.
