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U.S. officials say Iran opened fire on American warships and commercial vessels today.
“It comes after the U.S. military said it was supporting efforts to open up the street of”
Hormuz. President Trump continued to defend the war as necessary. "Can't let them have a nuclear weapon or you're going to have--you have problems like nobody would believe, and it's going very well." U.S. officials say the military helped two American flagged merchant vessels transit the
street. The National Average for a gallon of regular gas is now above $4.45 in California. It's $6.11 in 11 cents. It's up nearly 35 cents in just one week, meanwhile the oil cartel OPEC announced a boost in production but is NPR's Camilla Dominozki reports that won't provide any near-term
relief.
OPEC and its allies have lost some of their leverage over markets now that United Arab Emirates
has left the group.
“But the bigger problem is that key members rely on the state of Hormuz to export crude.”
So whatever OPEC announces, the biggest question remains how many ships are getting through that key waterway. And the answer that is not many between Iranian tolls and the U.S. blockade. In the U.S. gasoline prices had been easing since the ceasefire announcement but between the global oil supply crisis and U.S. refinery outages, prices are rising aggressively.
Good, Camilla Dominozki and PR news. In roughly half of all U.S. states, candidates who have denied election results in the past are now running for positions that will have a direct role in the certification of future elections. And PR's Miles Parks has more.
A few years ago, most people didn't know and frankly, probably didn't care who their state secretary of state was. But 2020 changed that.
“Republican Brad Raffinsberger and Georgia declined President Trump's request to find votes.”
In Michigan, Democrat Jocelyn Benson had armed protesters visit her home. Those two states are now among the dozens this year that are electing new secretaries of state and governors. And a new analysis from the nonprofit states United action finds that many of those races will feature candidates who have denied election results in the past.
In 23 states, including five presidential swing states, candidates who have denied election results are running for offices that will have a direct role in certifying future elections. Miles Parks and PR news, Washington. The Met Gala is tonight drawing flamboyant on samples and controversy. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and wife Lauren Sanchez are putting much of the bill as lead sponsors
and honorary chairs for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts costume Institute Annual Fundraiser. Many social media users who are often the events biggest promoters by analyzing red carpet fashion have called for a boycott New York City mayors around Mundani announced he'll skip it, saying he's focused on making the most expensive city in the U.S. more affordable. You're listening to NPR news from Washington.
The Metastota star tribunes coverage of last year's mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school took the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News judges praise the thoroughness and compassion of the newspapers reporting to children were killed and more than a dozen others were injured.
As a shooter opened fire during the school's first mass of the academic year, the shooter
later was found dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot. Tiny pieces of plastic in the atmosphere may be contributing to global warming according to a new study. NPR's Rebecca Hershey reports when plastic particles get small enough, they can become airborne. Most microplastics and nanoplastics are smaller than a single bacteria cell.
They come from plastic garbage and are all different colors as a result. A new study conducted by scientists in the U.S., China and Italy looked at plastic bits that are dark in color, darker colors absorb more heat. They found that dark colored plastic particles in the atmosphere may be contributing to global warming by trapping extra heat from the sun.
However, the warming effect from plastics appears to be relatively small compared to other heat absorbing particles, like suit. The study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Rebecca Hershey and PR News Amsterdam has banned advertisements for both neat and fossil fuel products, ads for burgers, cars and airlines have been stripped from billboards, bus stops,
and train stations, politicians say the moves about bringing Amsterdam's streetscape and align with the local government's own environmental targets, Amsterdam's trying to become carbon neutral by 2050 and to cut meat consumption in half over the same period. This is NPR News. When Congress eliminated funding for a public media last year, we saw a groundswell of support
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