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at the pump will drop once a Iran war comes to an end.
“"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." Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, the AAA Motor Club says gas prices have climbed 27 weeks in 27 cents, rather in one week, with an national average now around $4.30 for a gallon of regular.
And with a straight-of-form move, still close, a price-of-print crude is currently around $114 per barrel. President Trump has signed to bill lending the record-long shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. The measure excludes money for ice and parts of Border Patrol.
NPR Sam Greenglass reports it caps two-and-a-half months of bidder debate over deportation and immigration enforcement tactics that resulted in the deaths of two people in Minneapolis.
Funding for DHS was first caught up in debate between Republicans and Democrats over funding
for two of its agencies, immigration and customs enforcement and customs and border protection. Senate Republicans struck a deal with Democrats, plus by the White House, to separate ice and border patrol, so funding could flow again to other agencies, like TSA and the Coast Guard. But when that measure reached the House, it sat for a month amid disagreements within the GOP.
The House finally acted as money that Trump was using to keep HX flowing to many DHS workers was set to run out. Republicans are advancing a separate measure to fund ice and border patrol using a maneuver Democrats can't block. Sam Greenglass and PR News Washington.
“Congress has agreed to a short-term extension of a key surveillance program.”
The House gave a 45-day extension final approval Thursday sending it to President Trump's deaths. The Ford Intelligence Surveillance Act had been set to expire today. It's now been extended through June 12th amid a dispute over a longer reauthorization. The Christian summer camp in Texas were 25 campers and two counselors died during catastrophic
flooding last July. We'll not reopen this summer, Kaylee Hunt from Member Station, KUT reports. SpaceX says it is with drawn its application to renew its operating license for the 26 summer camp season. The camp was previously notified by state health officials that its license to operate
might not be renewed unless it made major revisions to its emergency plan. In a statement, the camp says, "No administrative process or summer season should move forward while families continue to grieve while investigations continue and while so many Texans still carry the pain of last July's tragedy. Camp Mystic is still under investigation by state health officials for complaints made
against the camp last summer. More than a dozen families are also suing the camp and its leaders, alleging negligent behavior leading up to and during the Fourth of July flood." This is in PR. The primary elections for Congress and Louisiana have been put off for Republican Governor
Jeff Landry issued an executive order Thursday to give state lawmakers time to draw a new house district following Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling. It struck down a majority black district, primaries for other state offices. We'll go forward as planned early voting in Louisiana's May 17, primaries begin on Saturday.
45 year old man charged in the stabbing of two Jewish men in London due to make his first
court appearance today, police say S. Assilamon faces two counts of attempt to murder, related to the attack and golders' green and north London. He's also been charged in a separate incident on the same day, police say one of the victims has been released from a hospital and the other remains in stable condition. About one in 15 women will experience major depressive disorder in the year after childbirth,
but his impairs Gabriella Manuel reports, new data suggests that number varies greatly from country to country. The condition involves persistent sadness and difficulty functioning day-to-day. The study published in the Medical Journal, the Lancet Psychiatry, found that rates of major depressive disorder were the highest in southern sub-Saharan Africa at around 15% of postpartum
women and the lowest in high-income parts of Asia Pacific, dipping to just about 3%. Women in North America experienced rates between 4% and 5%.
“Researchers say getting a global picture is a key step in targeting prevention screening”
and treatment programs. Gabriella Emmanuel and PR News.
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