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Live from NPR news in Washington, on Core of a Coleman, President Trump has p...

online of a large explosion he didn't explain anything about it.

The Associated Press reports this is a likely U.S. attack on the Iranian city of Isvahan,

and appears Emily Fang has more. Posting without context or a caption, President Trump shared on social media a video of two successive explosions, one leaving a giant cloud of smoke. Around the same time, several social media videos from within Iran were shared with diaspora websites, despite a widespread telecommunications, blackout in Iran, and they show what

appear to be secondary explosions around a military site in Isvahan, including a possible munitions depot. Iran's Navy said it had struck a container ship in the Persian Gulf. It claimed was owned by Israel, and response to Israel's repeated strikes on Tehran this week.

Emily Fang and Pyrenees fan Turkey.

The national average price of gasoline has risen above $4 a gallon, according to AAA. And that's more than $1 higher than what it was before the war started a month ago. And Pyrenees Camilla Dominozki reports.

Last year, gasoline prices were remarkably stable.

A straight line more or less. For most of this month, they've also been a straight line, almost straight up. Prices vary around the country, most expensive on the west coast, and least expensive in the middle of the continent, but they're rising everywhere. Crewed oil is driving prices up as the war in Iran disrupts global oil trade, a switch

to summer gasoline, and the typical seasonal rise in demand aren't helping. The average cost of public charging electric vehicles is 41 cents a kilowatt hour, AAA reports up slightly, two cents from a month ago. Camilla Dominozki and Pyrenees. So you as Supreme Court has blocked a Colorado law.

The state law blocks therapists from using what's called conversion therapy to change a teenager's sexual orientation or gender identity. The high court ruled the law wrongly regulates speech based on a viewpoint. The case was brought by an evangelical Christian who provides this talk therapy. A federal panel has decided to let the oil and gas industry operate in the Gulf of Mexico

without following the Endangered Species Act rules. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsep convened rare meeting. He did not extensively consult environmental agencies. He cited national security, environmental groups say many endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico could be made extinct.

TSA agents are getting some of their back pay, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to find money for them after more than a month of unpaid work. Cameron Cocombs is a TSA agent in Boise, Idaho. It's been nice that we got these paychecks, but at the end of the day, you know, we are still

going to be behind with our, you know, late fees and all these different things. The Homeland Security Department is still partially shut down as Congress disputes funding for the agency. You're listening to NPR.

A California sheriff who seized more than half a million state ballots says he has paused

his probe into election fraud. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, is also running for California Governor. He says there are legal challenges against his probe. California's attorney general says the sheriff has no authority over election material. Today is the birthday of late labor and farm workers later says our Chavez.

Arizona lawmakers have sent a bipartisan bill to Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs. It repeals the state's holiday honoring him. Hobbs says she will sign it, from Member Station KJ ZZ Wayne Shotsky has more. The Arizona House approved the bill days after multiple women alleged Chavez used his power and influence in the labor movement he helped lead to sexually abuse them.

The bill had bipartisan support, but some Democrats criticized Republicans for repealing the holiday altogether, instead of replacing it with a new day honoring the farm workers' movement, representative Mariana Sondaval. Failing to recognize honor and uplift the voices of workers who feed this nation and to confront

the expectation they often endure misses an important opportunity to unite us.

A spokesman for Hobbs said she will sign the bill and look for other ways to recognize the farm workers' movement. For MPR News, I'm Wayne Shotsky and Phoenix. NASA is preparing to launch its Artemis-2 mission tomorrow night from Florida. For astronauts are to be launched into space, they're to fly around the moon and return

to Earth within 10 days. On Wall Street at this hour, the Dow was up about 440 points. This is NPR.

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