"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
U.S. gas prices are the highest they have been since 2022.
“The auto-club AAA finds drivers are now paying on average $4 for a gallon of regular gasoline.”
The surge at the gas pump connected to higher oil prices tied to the U.S. Israel war against Iran. The latest attack involved an Iranian strike on a Kuwaiti oil tanker today authorities into buy said there was no oil leakage and no-known injuries. U.S. defense secretary Pete Heck-Seth recently made an undisclosed trip to the Middle
East to visit U.S. troops. He discusses visit during a news conference of the Pentagon and PR's Quilorn supports Heck-Seth claims, regime change has been achieved any wrong. Heck-Seth visited troops over the weekend, he said morale was high and the U.S. is rapidly building bunkers to protect troops and aircraft from Iranian strikes.
Heck-Seth echoed President Trump's claim that Iran's new leadership is now more moderate many Iran experts believe it's more hard line.
“Heck-Seth said opening the straight of her moves and rocketing worldwide oil prices are”
not America's problem.
Countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as
well. It's not just the United States Navy. He said the Trump administration prefers an negotiated settlement but would not rule out using ground troops. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled eight to one against the law that bans conversion therapy
for LGBTQ+ minors in Colorado. Majority of the court finds the law raises free speech concerns, here's NPR's Neutotan Burke. Colorado's law addressing conversion therapy does not just ban physical interventions. In cases like this, it centers speech based on viewpoint.
“Colorado may regard its policy as a central to public health and safety, certainly sensory”
discoveries throughout history have believed the same, but the first amendment stands
as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. NPR's Neutotan Burke Federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether large payouts on prediction market sites like Polymark had violated insider trading laws, NPR's Bobby Allen reports. The market betters earned hundreds of thousands of dollars on the timing of military strikes
in Iran, and when Venezuela and Leader Nicolás Maduro was captured. Now prosecutors in the southern district of New York are investigating the trades, seeing NPR's report of the probe. Both Polymark and its main competitor, Calshy, say they ban insider trading, but policing is largely left up to the platforms themselves.
Polymark had had many markets on wars and military actions that operates in overseas exchange based in Panama. The spokesman for New York's U.S. Attorney's Office said prediction markets are not outside the scope of anti-money laundering and insider trading laws. Billions of dollars are bet every week on Polymarkid in Calshy.
That's Bobby Allen, it's NPR. A Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of oil, docked today at the Cuban Port of Matanzas,
it's the first such tanker to reach the island in three months since shipments were halted.
It's main supplier of Venezuela, in January the U.S. military seized former President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife to face drug trafficking charges in New York. Despite a U.S. blockade, the Trump administration says it did not object to other assistance to Cuba. As sports betting expands across the U.S. concerns about addiction are growing, especially
among young people. Now the University of Mississippi is launching what it calls the first research center of its kind in the nation, focused on gambling on college campuses. Here's NPR as Windsor Johnston. The center on collegiate gambling will study how betting affects students and student
athletes, including addiction risks, mental health, and pressure tied to game outcomes. It will also develop prevention strategies and help shape policy. Kate Humble with the National Council on Problem Gambling says the ease of access is a major concern. It's all available right in your pocket, and not just accessible, but available 24/7.
You can bet on the Eagles, and then you can also at 2 a.m. bet on Bulgarian ping pong, or something kind of round the clock if you're looking for betting opportunities. Humble says that kind of constant access combined with limited education about risk can make younger users especially vulnerable. Windsor Johnston and PR news.
The major market indices are up 2% to 3.5%, this is NPR news.
