"Live from NPR News in Washington on Corvo Coleman.
President Trump is reiterating he is threats to Iran. He wants Iran to allow international oil shipping through the straight of Hormuz. If Iran continues to refuse, Trump says he will bomb all of Iran's bridges and power plants.
This morning, Trump wrote online, quote, "a whole civilization will die tonight never
to be brought back again."
“Separately, the U.S. military has struck targets on Iran's important carg Island, and”
he, as Greg May, says, "It's home to a key oil facility in the Persian Gulf." The U.S. struck military targets on carg Island, early Tuesday, this is coming from a U.S. official who's not authorized to speak publicly. The official is describing them as targets that the U.S. has hit previously, and the official stress the U.S. did not hit oil infrastructure, which is the most important part of the
island. When Trump has previously threatened to seize control of the island and the oil facilities, but at this point, there's no indication of that. And PR is Greg Mayary reporting. Police and Istanbul say there was a gunfight outside the Israeli consulate today.
One suspect is dead to Turkish police officers are injured. Israel had already withdrawn diplomats from Turkey after the war against Iran started. Deribuskehrin reports from Istanbul.
“Three attackers approached the Israeli consulate in a busy financial district of Istanbul.”
Gunshots rang out as police fired back. Istanbul governed our David Gould told reporters that two of the suspects were injured and taken into custody. A third died at the scene. The Turkish Minister of the Interior wrote on the social media platform X that the suspects
had driven to Istanbul from a nearby city, and that one of them had ties to an organization that, quote, exploits religion Israel's ministry of foreign affairs said the consulate was not staffed at the time of the attack. Frontern news, I'm Deribuskehrin in Istanbul. Stocks opened lower this morning as crude oil prices climbed to their highest level in almost
four years. And PR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average slipped about 330 points in early trading.
“That disruption of energy supplies caused by the U.S. war with Iran has pushed domestic”
crude oil prices to their highest level since 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Gasoline prices rose another two cents overnight. Triple A is the average price of the pump is now $4.14 a gallon. Orders for long lasting manufactured goods fell 1.4% in the month leading up to the war. That was largely due to a sharp drop in orders for jet airplanes.
Not counting transportation products? Turbo goods orders were up in February. The activist investor Bill Akben wants to buy universal music group, Akben's offering
$64 billion for the label, which is home to act including Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny.
Scott Horsley and PR News, Washington. On Wall Street, the Dow is again down about 320 points. You're listening to NPR. NASA says the Artemis crew is flying home after circling the moon yesterday, while they were on the far side of the moon, the astronauts studied craters and places of interest on the
lunar surface. They also dedicated one of the unnamed lunar craters to the late wife of the crew's mission commander, Commander Reed Weisman's wife, Carol, died of cancer in 2020. The University of Michigan is celebrating its second national championship in Men's College Basketball.
The Wolverines beat UConn last night, 69 to 63. They captured this year's NCAA Division I title, Greg Eklin has more from Indianapolis. When the final buzzer sounded, this season's Michigan Wolverines joined at the 1989 squad that won the program's first title. The tournament's most outstanding player was Wolverine's guard Elliott Kado, who scored
a game high 19 points. A lot of people doubted me, and I'm just so proud of myself for me to be able to say I was the most outstanding player and win a national championship at the same time. Michigan finished the first half with a ten-four run for a four-point half-time lead and
never surrendered its lead in the second half.
The Wolverines finished the season with a 37-and-three record. For NPR News, I'm Greg Eklin in Indianapolis. Over the weekend, UCLA won the Women's Division I National Basketball Championship by routing South Carolina. UCLA took its first Division I Women's Basketball title.
I'm Corvacolman, NPR News, and Washington.
