"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.
Stocks closed down at oil prices surged, after the U.S. and Iran traded fire Sunday in
the Middle East.
“Brent crude futures rose above $90 a barrel U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate”
crude rose above 86 a barrel, with his announcement that the U.S. is poised to acquire vast amounts of Venezuela's untapped oil reserves. President Trump says the future is bright for substantially lower gas prices, but is it. Francisco Minaldi is director of the Latin American Energy Program at Rice University's
Baker Institute. He's skeptical. In the short term, it's very unlikely that it will lower gas prices. In the longer term, if Venezuela produces much more, it will lead to slightly lower oil prices, which would help with gas prices.
But just to give you an idea, Venezuela is going to add 300-400,000 barrels per day of production,
and these eruptions in the Middle East are about 10 million barrels of production.
All of this is G20 finance ministers made in Asheville, North Carolina.
“State authorities in North Carolina have arrested a 17-year-old girl in connection with”
the May attack on a mosque in San Diego, and PR's Odette Uset for ports. The minor is charged with three felony counts of first-degree murder, one for each of the victims, Montsor Casilla, Nadir Awad, and Amine Abdullah. She is also charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder against worshippers at the mosque, and against worshippers at a Jewish temple, and black students at a public
high school. The two gunmen died by suicide before they went to the temple or the school. They were males aged 17-18, writing they apparently left behind outline anti-Semitic and defeminist, white nationalist views. According to the charging documents the teenage girl in North Carolina had worked out plans
with them in advance to live stream the shootings and to disseminate their writings. Odette Uset and PR news. A new investigation from NPR and Boston University finds that heat contributes to thousands
“more deaths each year in the U.S. than official record show, and PR's Alejandra Burrundo”
reports. NPR and Boston University used a statistical model to figure out that there are likely five times as many heat-related deaths each year in the U.S. as otherwise noted. It's likely because heat's influence on deaths can be really hard to identify, but doctors and other experts know it is killing people.
Quyn Adams is an epidemiologist at Boston University and a partner in the research with NPR. We know that during extreme heat events a lot of people who do die die because they have pre-existing conditions heat can worsen a heart-conditioner kidney problem for example. Adams hopes the data will motivate policymakers to find solutions, because climate change is only making long hot summers like this one, even more dangerous.
Alejandra Burrundo and PR news. This is NPR. In Nepal and China, officials say deaths from a flash flood in landslide last week now exceed 900 with more than 4,000 missing rescue efforts are now focused on tunnels at hydropower sites clogged with mud.
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say that more than 6,000 Ebola cases have been identified there, close to 3000 people have died in this fastest growing Ebola outbreak in history. Whether or not it's okay for men to wear shorts to the office is a hot topic this summer, with nearly half of the white-collar financial industry workers surveyed in a recent Bloomberg
poll saying shorts are okay, but NPR's Chloe Veltman reports some men in Silicon Valley might disagree. In 2026, there were some shorts wearing outliers in tech, like Adam Masari. The Instagram head spoke about his Sartorial choices recently on the throwing Fits podcast, but I am pro, I'm definitely a pro.
But Silicon Valley fashion stylist Victoria Hitchcock says while dorm room style may have been deregur during the dot com boom days, male tech industry workers have been gravitating away from shorts. I don't think anything above the New Year's appropriate really is distracting. Hitchcock says Silicon Valley shifts towards more polished men's looks in recent years
reflects the matureing industry employees growing disposable incomes and the power of social media influences in the men's style space, Chloe Veltman and Piano's. At the U.S. open tennis fourth seed Novak Joga Vitch lost in the first round of play Sunday, a clearly ill-thirty-non-drilled Joga Vitch lost in five sets to Mariano Navone of Argentina. I'm Louise Skirvone, NPR News.
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