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rapid response force to go to the mid-East, this comes as Iran halts most of the oil
shipments leaving the Persian Gulf.
“It is allowing some tankers to get through that could include oil from its key facility,”
Carg Island. And beer's Tom Bowman says it's not clear if that's a U.S. target. Now we have this 31st Marine Exhibit to share a unit, out of Okinawa's 2200 Marines heading to the Middle East. Now, of course, no one is talking about what the mission is. It could be, you know, helping evacuate embassies, humanitarian mission, or boarding ships.
But again, it could be what they've talked about for decades, seizing some Iranian territory and that could be this carg Island. And beer is Tom Bowman reporting. The Trump administration says it's thinking about releasing more oil from the strategic petroleum reserve.
It's already going to release 172 million barrels.
Once part of a world effort to address the cut off of oil from the mid-East because of the war, energy secretary Chris Wright told FoxBusiness News today their will be plenty of supply.
“So look, I think prices are probably discounting that, although there's interruptions”
of flows from the strikes of Hormuz, the world has a lot of oil today. Currently, the price of a barrel of benchmark crude is nearly $107. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will refrain from further attacks on one of the world's largest natural gas fields in Iran. Netanyahu also says the war against Iran is being waged by two allies working together.
America is not fighting for Israel.
America is fighting with Israel for a common goal to protect our future, to protect civilization
against these barbarians. But a former Trump intelligence official quit this week. He publicly blamed Israel for pressuring the U.S. into the war which he considered a mistake. Major reports out this month say President Trump is damaged American democracy at remarkable speed.
They say he's pushed the U.S. closer to authoritarianism. And PR's Frank Lankford has more on the consensus among the reports. Right-line watch, which surveys more than 500 U.S. scholars finds that through tactics such as a massing executive power and attacking the media, Trump has pushed the U.S. system to appoint nearly mid-way between liberal democracy and dictatorship.
Trump has spread to NYHAN code wrecks the survey. I would say the goal is to govern as an authoritarian. Another report out by Sweden's V-Dem Institute found America's democracy ranking plunged last year from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries. A sign it said that U.S. democracy is being dismantled at an unprecedented pace.
The White House dismissed the findings calling it, quote, "a ridiculous claim made by an irrelevant, blatantly biased organization," Trump has repeatedly said he's no dictator. Frank Lankford and PR news, Washington. "You're listening to NPR." The Trump administration says it will transfer the control of federal student loans from
the Department of Education to the Treasury Department. The President suggested last year he'd move the loans to the small business administration. There's no explanation for this change, but it is the latest sign Trump is trying to close the education department. California Governor Gavin Newsom says he supports calls to rename his state's holiday, honoring
the late Labour leader says our Chavez to "far workers day." This follows in New York Times investigation detailing sexual abuse allegations against Chavez. From member station KQED, free to jabula Romero, has more. Maria Garcia is a member of the United Farm Workers, which chavez and labor icon Dolores
is worth a 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, worth that, and under age 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. Foreign PR News and Fatiha Javala Romero in Oakland, California.
People are hunting in Ohio for fragments of a meteorite that crashed to Earth Tuesday morning. The fireball could be seen from Wisconsin to Maryland. Few people have reported finding small pieces of black and rock in Ohio. I'm Corva Coleman and PR News in Washington.
