"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Roman.
The White House is facing headwinds on several fronts.
Fuel prices are soaring gasoline.
“His $4.9 a gallon diesel was more than $5.53 a gallon.”
This week, President Trump fired his attorney general, Pam Bondi, and the Supreme Court expressed skepticism over a White House plan to outlaw birthright citizenship. PPR senior political editor and correspondent Domitico Montanero says, "This might be a defining week for the President leading up to the midterm elections." I mean, he's had a lot of tough weeks lately, especially with the war and gas prices
tied together, but this week has really stood out, and maybe the one that we look back on, if Democrats win the house and say, "You know, that may be a place where everything kind of went south." He suffered some real embarrassment in the courts on his ballroom on public media funding, and at the Supreme Court where even the three justices he appointed sounded very skeptical
of his case on birthright citizenship, and he was in the audience to hear it.
A French cargo ship has become the first western tanker to pass through the straight-of-horn
moods since the start of the war in Iran.
“NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports a fifth of the world's oil used to pass through the”
straight. Now it has been nearly entirely choked off. The Iranian government has said no ships linked to Israel or the U.S. will be allowed to pass. The ship had remained idle in the Gulf since early March, like many other non-Iranian vessels after the war stopped nearly all commercial traffic.
The Maltese flagged vessel belongs to shipping and logistics giant CMA/CGM. The world's third largest container shipping conglomerate. Ship tracking data showed the vessel navigated the approved corridor along the Amani Coast. CMA/CGM, which is majority owned by a Franco Lebanese billionaire family, is understood to have coordinated the transit with Iranian maritime authorities.
Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News Paris. President Trump says there's a new White House fraud task force that will foastly mostly on Democratic-led states. The White House says it's inspired by fraud in Minnesota in the state-run social services programs.
Trump called Vice President J.D. Vance who's leading the task force the frauds are. He added that while the task force will look for fraud nationwide, it would focus primarily in blue states, led by in Trump's words, crooked Democrat politicians. Trump then listed California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine, and New York as examples. He also explicitly called out Minnesota for having a large Somali population.
Trump created the task force in mid-March. He has made combating fraud a central part of his political message ahead of November's mid-terms. Danielle Kurtzleben and Pierre News, the White House. Wall Street had the day off Friday for the good Friday.
“How would a markets will reopen Monday morning at 9/30, or listening to NPR News?”
The Trump administration is suing three states, Arizona, Illinois, and Connecticut, arguing the prediction market industry should be fed with the regulated not subject to the rules of the state gambling commissions. Some states have sued individual companies claiming they offer unregulated sports gaming. Todd Bookman with New Hampshire Public Radio reports.
March man, this is one of the most widely bet on events of the year, and for states, regulated sports gambling has become a key source of revenue. But prediction market companies have come seemingly out of nowhere, offering people the chance to win money on the outcome of games, but state governments don't get a cut. State Senator Tim Lang, a Republican, says New Hampshire could soon join other states that
have filed lawsuits. They have welcomed the apply for a license, right? A welcome to come to the state and work within our state regulations to make this happen. They should not be able to skirt our state laws. The prediction markets and the Trump administration say the federal government, not the states,
should have oversight. For NPR News, I'm Todd Bookman. NASA says the four Artemis two astronauts are no more than half way to the moon.
They are the first astronauts in more than 53 years to travel that far into space.
During a 10 day flight, they will conduct numerous tests on the capsule and other equipment with NASA's goal of returning astronauts back to the moon's surface in 2028. Monday, the astronauts will fly around the dark side of the moon, possibly taking them further than any other person has ever been from the earth. Depending on the final orbit, it could be slightly beyond what the Apollo 13 astronauts
flew in 1970. This is NPR News from Washington. I'm Dan Roman. [BLANK_AUDIO]
