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Iran's supreme leader, since the Islamic Republic will protect its nuclear and missile
“capabilities and says Americans "belong" at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.”
His remarks come as Iran's oil industry is struggling under a U.S. Navy blockade and as the global economy feels the strain of Iran's chokehold on the street of Hormuz, today President Trump dismissed concerns that high gas prices will linger long after the Iran war. "The gas will go down, as soon as the war's open, it'll drop like a rock.
There's so much out there. It's all over the place. Sitting all over the oceans of the world." Industry experts say will take time for gas prices to come down. The motoring club Triple A says the national average cost for a gallon of regular gas
is now $4.30 in California, it's $6.00 in one cent, and P.R. is a Stephen Bassah hot checked in with how that's affecting motorists. The cost to fill up her Silverado and Birmingham Alabama makes Mary Kaiser, no. "I don't feel anything at all, I'm just disappointed."
“Chris Covey's visiting family and says gas has not affected his driving yet.”
The place where I'm starting to notice it is the price of groceries because a lot of things are trucked into where I live in Arizona. Gas prices started dropping about two weeks ago, with hopes these straight-of-home moves would reopen. But AXA Diaz with Triple A says with no clear end to the war in sight, prices are climbing
back up. It's so volatile, and it really just depends on what's happening geopolitically and that can change by the day. Overall, gas prices are up about 44% since the war began within two months ago. Stephen Bassah hot and PR news.
Louisiana has postponed its congressional primary election after a new Supreme Court ruling that further weakens the landmark voting rights act, as Empire's Hansella Wong reports Republican officials and some other southern states are also pushing to redraw congressional maps in time for this year's mid-term election.
“The Supreme Court's concert of majority has reinterpreted the voting rights acts long-standing”
protections against racial discrimination and redistricting. And that has made it easier for Republican controls state legislatures, particularly in the south, to get rid of democratic represented house districts that were likely protected under the landmark law. Republican officials and states, including Georgia and Tennessee, are now calling for congressional
redistricting as soon as possible to help the GOP keep control of the U.S. House representatives after this year's midterm election. But it could be too late for many states to resolve maps this year. Whenever the map drawing happens, redistricting experts say the United States is headed towards the largest ever decline in representation by black members of Congress.
On Zila Wong and PR news. The House has voted to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security and bring an end to the longest agency shutdown in history. The bipartisan package had already passed the Senate, and it now goes to President Trump. The shutdown has lasted for 75 days as Democrats refuse to fund Trump's immigration enforcement
operations without changes. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. The first direct flight between the U.S. and Venezuela in seven years has arrived in the capital Caracas. The U.S. suspended flights in 2019 over safety concerns.
The resumption comes after the U.S. reopened its embassy following the Trump administration's
capture of President Nicholas Maduro, a scientist who played a critical role in the sequencing
of the human genome has died and PR's no greenfield voice reports J. Craig Venter's work accelerated the mapping of humanity's DNA. Scientists gathered at the White House 26 years ago with President Bill Clinton to mark what was basically the completion of efforts to sequence all human genes. Venter was celebrated at the event for his rival sequencing effort that gave the government
funded human genome project a run for its money. His company, Solaris Genomics, pioneered new, faster approaches. He became the first to sequence and publish his own personal genome, and his research team advanced the field of synthetic biology by creating a bacterial cell controlled by labs synthesized DNA.
The J. Craig Venter Institute, which he founded, said he died after unexpected side effects from a cancer treatment. He was 79 years old. Nell Greenfield Voice and PR news. 41-year-old skiing star Lindsay Vaughn says she's not ready to make a decision of whether to race again as she continues to recover from her frightening crash at the winter Olympics.
She's gone undergone eight surgeries after suffering a complex left leg fracture. She says a return would be at least a year and a half away. You're listening to NPR news from Washington.
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