"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst, Iran and the U.
on social media today after President Trump used vulgar language, threatening to target
“more of Iran's infrastructure if it didn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday.”
And here's Deep Harvas, has more." Iran is sitting back after President Trump posted an expletive-laden message on social media ordering Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. If they don't comply, he vowed to destroy more of Iran's bridges and power plants. The official ex-Account for Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations responded that
Trump, quote, "seeks to drag the region into an endless war." It added that it's threat to target civilian infrastructure, showed an intense-to-commit a war crime, and urged immediate international intervention. Mehdi Tablet-Habwei, deputy for communications and information in Iranian President Masood Pizedesh Kiyon's office, posted on ex-the President Trump had "resorted to obscenities
and nonsense out of sheer desperation and anger." He went on to use similarly insulting language, saying that the Strait would open when Iran had been compensated for the cost of this war. Deep Harvas and PR News Vaughn Turkey.
“And as the Strait remains largely closed, that's trending oil tankers, and pushing”
up the price of crude oil and gasoline. The police says the average price of a gallon of gas nationwide is now $4.11. President Trump says gas prices will immediately go down once the war with Iran ends, but David Goldwin, former energy envoy for the State Department and Assistant Secretary of Energy, says that won't happen.
Oil is a globally priced commodity, so even though we won't have a physical shortage
here, because we've got Canada for heavy oil, and we produce our own, the reality is
that the price is global, and there's a real physical shortage, and so we don't escape that price impact, and that translates to what it costs to be refined, to buy the crude and therefore what you pay for gasoline at the pump, so we are not immune from that." Speaking there, two NPS Weekend Edition. There are only days left to register to vote in this year's primary elections in a couple
of states, and here's Hansi Lohong reports some states in the Midwest and South are getting ready to hold their primaries in May. "L's revoters in Indiana and Ohio, who want to cast balance in the May primaries, have until the end of Monday to register, and there's still at least a week left to register in time for the primaries in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and West Virginia.
If you're planning to register to vote by mail, you may want to avoid waiting until the last minute to send your application by a postmark deadline. Changes at the US Postal Service mean that your mail may not get a postmark on the same day you drop it off.
“USBS says, "If you want to make sure it gets a postmark, stop by a post office and ask”
for one." And if you've already registered to vote, you may want to check your status before your state's deadline, elsewhere voters can sometimes be removed from lists, especially if they move, change their name or haven't voted in a while. On Zilawong and Car News.
"You're listening to NPR News from Washington." A federal judge has stopped efforts by President Trump to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren't considering race in admissions. This follows a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a coalition of 17 Democratic State Attorney's General, Trump ordered the new policy last summer, over whether schools were
using personal statements and other proxies to consider race. The state say the data collection effort, threatened student privacy, and could lead to baseless investigations. The judge says the government likely has the authority to collect the data, but that it was done in a rushed chaotic manner.
Hollywood's playing host to Big Family Crowds this holiday weekend, and Pierce Bob Mondello has the details.
"Project Hail Mary is still packing a man with a blockbuster worthy $30 million in its
third weekend." "Thumbs up." "No. That's thumbs down." "You need you to thumbs up."
"It's close enough." Still, that small potatoes next to the Super Mario Bros, who took a running jump start by opening Wednesday. Their galaxy movie will collect a five-day total of more than $190 million. Together they pushed 2026 to the best start of any years since the pandemic, and
if blockbusters inspire people to come back to the movies, that boads well for the next few weeks, openings, which include Mortal Kombat 2, a Michael Jackson biopic, and the first Star Wars movie in seven years, Bob Mondello and PR News.
And in second place of the box office project Hail Mary with $30 million globally, it's
made more than $420 million. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
