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hit an Iranian city that is also home to one of Iran's main nuclear sites.

President Trump posted a video of explosions online but did not identify it.

The Associated Press reports it's likely the Iranian city of Isfahan. Separately, Kuwait is blaming Iran for a strike on a Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The fire was put out. No one was injured."

Meanwhile, the national average price of gasoline has risen above $4 a gallon, according to AAA. That's more than $1 higher than it was, but then before the war started a month ago. And appears Camilla Dominozki reports. "Last year, gasoline prices were remarkably stable, a straight line more or less.

So far this month, they've also been a straight line, almost straight up.

Price is very 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 are not helping. The average cost of public charging electric vehicles is 41 cents a kilowatt hour, AAA reports, absolutely, two cents from a month ago. Camilla Dominozki and PR news. "The UN Security Council holds an emergency meeting today, after three UN peacekeepers

were killed in Lebanon, Israel has invaded southern Lebanon and is fighting there with Hezbollah militants and fear has learned prayer reports from Beirut." All three of the UN peacekeepers killed are from Indonesia, which has also pledged to send troops for a future international force in Gaza. One was killed by what Indonesia's foreign ministry called "indirect artillery fire"

to others by what the UN called an explosion of unknown origin that destroyed their vehicle. Indonesia's foreign ministers calling for a swift, thorough, and transparent investigation. Israel says it's trying to figure out whether its troops or his Bala were responsible. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his military's aims in Iran are beyond halfway complete, but the Israel is widening its invasion of Lebanon.

The latest attacks hit Beirut Southern suburbs and the Baka Valley in Lebanon's east. Lauren Freyer and PR news Beirut. In the U.S. airport security lines were mostly shorter yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order telling the Department of Homeland Security to move money around and pay TSA workers.

And Beirut's jewel rose says they've not been paid in more than a month, because DHS is still partly shut down. We still don't know exactly where the money is coming from. A lot of the Trump administration's critics are wondering if it is even legal for the White

House to do this, and if it is legal, why didn't it happen sooner?

Thousands of TSA officers have called out of work since the shutdown began.

Many have picked up second jobs leading to some of the longest security lines in the

agency's history, but we still don't know when those security screeners will get paid next. And Beirut's jewel rose reporting. You're listening to NPR. The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a hearing today.

It will focus on the probable causes of two fatal crashes involving Ford cars that led motorists take their hands off the wheel. Several in other cars, not the Ford vehicles, were killed in these incidents. Ford and other automakers say the hands-free systems are not intended to replace human drivers.

Educators in California are grappling with how to discuss the late labor leaders says our Chavez. There's a holiday that honors him and the rights he secured for farm workers. But his legacy is now being questioned. From Member Station KQED and San Francisco, Katie Denebetti, has more.

Teachers are reworking less than plans about Chavez after allegations earlier this month that he abused two young girls and raped fellow labor leader Dolores Huerta. Chavez's legacy is widely taught in the state where he co-founded the United Farm Workers. But after California renamed today's holiday Farm Workers Day, teachers are shifting focus to the movements lesser known Filipino leaders and women like Huerta.

Here San Francisco ethnic studies teachers Samantha Aguirre. You can still teach this movement without centering it on him as the end all be all. The State Department of Education is urging teachers to focus on the movement as greater than one man. For MPR News, I'm Katie Denebetti and San Francisco.

NASA is preparing to launch its Artemis 2 mission tomorrow night from Florida. Four astronauts will be launched into space. They will fly around the moon and back to Earth within 10 days. I'm Core of a Coolman, and B.R. News from Washington.

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