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Global oil prices are surging at one point today past $100 a barrel, as fighting escalates between the U.S. and Iran and PR's Hadeel Al-Shalci has the latest from Istanbul. The price for a barrel of brand crude oil that international standards sort more than 6% to $100 as the Iranian backed Yemeni-Houthi rebels attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea.
“The Hothi's are blockading the Babylon-Mendip's Strait, a key shipping route which connects”
the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
It's a second choke point for oil transportation besides a straight-of-home moose.
Trump threatened the Hothi's saying they would face "major military punishment if they kept attacking ships." The rise in oil prices could inflate costs, which could force the federal reserve to increase interest rates. Hadeel Al-Shalci MPR News is Istanbul.
The Dow closed down more than 500 points or nearly 1% than Nasdaq was down 553 points, more than 2%. The Justice Department has withdrawn its subpoenas to compel three New York Times journalists to testify about their sources for articles about the new Air Force One Qatar gifted to President Trump.
A federal judge told the government attorneys the administration was required to ensure it could not obtain what it needed for many other sources before issuing subpoenas to journalists. MPR's David Foconflik describes what happened ahead of today's decision.
“This clash erupted after the Times reported that the U.S. Secret Service interceded to convince”
Trump not to take the new jet home from the NATO summit in Turkey earlier this month. The Times alleges the Trump administration is attempting to intimidate its reporters, seeking phone records not just of its journalists, but of some of their family members. Trump has sued the Times for defamation, while the papers sued the administration to block new restrictions on covering the Pentagon.
MPR's David Foconflik reporting.
The European Union is imposing a $1 billion fine on Google, accusing the alphabet-owned
company of favoring its own services and search results, while restricting competitor app developers. MPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the EU penalized Google as the European block braces for new U.S. tariffs. The finest part of Brussels ongoing efforts to regulate big tech companies, it caps an investigation
launched in March 2024 under the EU's Digital Markets Act, which attempts to make digital markets fairer and more contestable. They claim Google set up their search engine and Google play to favor its own services over their competitors. The European Commission says it is acting to protect consumer interests.
Google says the fine harms European businesses and consumers. The fine comes at a time of high trade tensions between the EU and U.S. Eleanor Beardsley and Peer News Paris. The U.S. trade representative Jamison Greer issued a statement accusing the EU of unfairly targeting the most competitive American companies and undermining trade relations with
Washington. It's NPR News. While it might be tempting to just wait for the movie version of a book, the star-studded film adaptation of Homer's Epic Odyssey, heard in this trailer seem to have the opposite effect.
"Help me go home." Book sales have surged according to industry trackers, recounted book scan and is in Piersicoic Rille reports many high school English teachers already well familiar with the reading material. Fine Hollywood's version is making them eager to get back to the classroom.
Casey Crowhurst has taught high school English for the past 16 years. Getting his students at Monticello High School in Eastern Illinois to care about a story
written thousands of years ago has always been a challenge.
Even though the Odyssey is a favorite of English teachers, it takes a bit of convincing to sway some students. Many teachers use clips from past adaptations, like the 1997 Hallmark Mini Series, a great teaching tool, but one that crowd her students find, quote, "silly." So after he saw the Odyssey, he posted his gratitude for the film's director on TikTok.
"I just saw the Odyssey, and I want to say I'm behalf of all English teachers, thank you, Christopher Nolan. Thank you." Oh, welcome, update for a long beloved epic. Sequoic Rillow and Pyrnus.
Canadian National is now back in Union Pacific and it's planned to buy Norfolk Southern for $85 billion a deal would create the U.S. as first seamless and single transcontinental railroad. The Dow closed down more than 500 points, the S&P was down 100, and that was down 553 points or more than 2%.
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