Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.
The Iran War has disrupted energy markets for more than 10 weeks, and now President
“Trump tells CBS News that he wants to temporarily suspend the gas tax, and PR's”
Danielle Kurtzleben reports on Trump's latest response to surging gasoline prices. Suspending the gas tax would require an act of Congress. Currently the tax is 18.3 cents per gallon of gas and 24.3 cents on diesel. The potential suspension isn't acknowledgement from the White House of the toll that high gas prices have taken on American consumers.
The latest NPR PBS News Marists poll found that 8 in 10 Americans say gas prices are straining their budgets, and that 63% say those price increases are Trump's fault. Regular gasoline costs just under $3 per gallon before the U.S. bombed Iran. Now it costs 50% more at $4.52 a according to AAA. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News the White House.
Then the average price in California is $6 in 16 cents. After a Virginia court nullified a redistricting referendum that would have given Democrats four more favorable districts in the 2026 midterms, the state's Democrats are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to pause that ruling. Jad Khalil of Member Station VPM reports.
Democrats in Virginia have been rushing to join an effort to counter a jerrymandering push President Trump started in July.
First month voters approved the Constitutional Amendment that would lead to a map with
a big advantage for Democrats. But Friday, the Supreme Court of Virginia rule that the legislature didn't follow the state Constitution's amendment process. Meanwhile, Republicans this week in Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina are taking steps to redistrict at Trump's urging.
After the Supreme Court, we can protect from minority voters. Friend pair news. I'm Jad Khalil in Richmond. The California man accused of trying to assassinate President Trump at the White House Court's sponsored center has pleaded not guilty to the charges, as NPR's Ryan Lucas reports
Cole Allen entered his plea at a hearing today in federal court.
The 31-year-old faces four counts, including trying to assassinate the president of the United
States. At his arrangement, Allen was in shackles and an orange prison outfit, he stood at the podium as his attorneys entered a plea of not guilty to the charges against him. Prosecutors say Allen traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, DC by train and booked a room at the same hotel where the White House correspondent's dinner takes place.
Allen then allegedly tried to storm the dinner with the shotgun and other weapons, but
“was stopped at the outer perimeter by secret service agents.”
He is scheduled to be back in court in late June. Ryan Lucas and PR news, Washington. Sales of previously occupied homes were essentially flat in April, another lackluster showing for the housing market during what's traditionally its busiest time of the year, the latest figure fell short of the pace economists were expecting the national median sales
price increase, 9/10 of a percent in April from a year earlier to $417,000. It's NPR. The Supreme Court is leaving access to a widely used abortion pill, untouched, at least until Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug myth of prison, the order prevents restrictions on the medication imposed by a federal appeals
court from taking effect for now, women seeking abortions can still visit a doctor remotely and the pill can be mailed to them. Hundreds of scientists sent advocacy groups have signed on to a letter demanding that the Trump administration restore nearly two dozen members of the national science board that were fired recently.
It's the latest and a number of attacks on science under this administration and PR's Katie Riddle reports. The scientists wrote that this was quote one of many actions taken by the current administration that deprives our government of independent, apolitical oversight in expert advice on quote. They went on to warn that its impacts would extend beyond science into health care and
technology. The members of the board were fired suddenly in late April when they received emails informing them that their service was terminated immediately. The board was set up by Congress to offer leadership and policy direction to the National Science Foundation, the signatories went on to warn that the United States is becoming
less competitive with China, a country that is now investing heavily in science, Katie Riddle, and PR News. The men's soccer world cup is one month away and it's almost time for coaches of the record 48 competing nations to finalize their 26 person squads. The tournament will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada, FIFA expects to announce
the official squad lists on June 2nd. U.S. stocks inched up to new records today, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. On the latest episode of Sources and Methods, a week of Whiplash in the Iran War, the U.S. escorting ships through the straight of Hormuz, then just as quickly, not. Reminds me of the movie Jaws.
“Remember the mayor said, "Hey, everything's great, go back in the water."”
What it all means for the wider war and for gas prices, this week on Sources and Methods,
