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soar, according to the motoring club AAA, just overnight. The average national price of diesel lept nearly 9 cents a gallon. It's at $6.40. The conflict in Iran is forcing up prices, but there is a second issue. And Pierre's A.A. Batreaui says Saudi Arabia's oil exports have been slashed, because
it's facing a renewed war with hoothy rubbles in neighboring Yemen.
Data from OPEC shows that Saudi Arabia's oil output fell to around 6.2 million barrels
a day last month. Now compare that to 11 million barrels a day before the U.S. War with Iran. And the Saudis are now facing these two chokeholds, one in the Strait of Hermos, and since July, a blockade on its ships by the Houthis through Beb and Mendeb.
“That is the other key shipping straight through the Red Sea.”
The Saudis were using the Red Sea to bypass the Strait of Hermos. And Pierre's A.A. Batreaui reporting. The House of Representatives has been dismissed on early recess. Speaker Johnson says the House got a lot done, but Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massey excoriated the speaker.
He says that means the House will not take up his articles of impeachment against defense secretary Pete Heggseth for the Iran War, or continue investigating the Epstein files. The House did pass a major Russia sanctions bill, completing the process, and sending the measure to President Trump, and Pierre Sam Greenglass reports. Republican Congressman Michael McCall says the sanctions will target the officials, companies,
and banks, helping fund Russia's war in Ukraine. "When we look back at this moment in time, I want to be able to say that we used all the tools available to in this war."
“The package will allow President Trump to impose tariffs on countries buying oil and natural gas”
from Russia, a sticking point for many Democrats like Congressman Don Bier.
The bill is a loophole that will allow him to defy basically any country has a facilitator
of evading Russia's sanctions. He could then hit them with tariffs of up to 100% with no guardrails were oversight and no expiration. A legislation is named for the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who negotiated Trump's support for the sanctions, Sam Greenglass and Pierre News Washington.
In ice-off, a search charge was shooting an immigrant and then lying about it using custody, and Pierre's Vanessa Romo reports. Ice-off is a Christian Castro, who's now on suspension, is being held at the Hennepin County jail as of Wednesday afternoon. His lawyer, Rolando Kuntu, says Castro looks forward to clearing his name.
"We just wanted to stress, you know, where anxious we're ready to fight this case in court,
so we're looking forward to it." Castro is accused of shooting at Julio Socialist through the door of his home in January during Operation Metro Surge. When Castro filed a report about the incident, he falsely claimed Socialize attacked him with a broom, body cam video later showed that was a lie. Castro was held in a Texas jail for three months as Minnesota officials made unsuccessful
attempts to extradite him. "And beer is Vanessa Romo. This is NPR." Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is in France speaking to the European Parliament. The European Commission is proposing that Canada should become a type of associate member of the block. Carney says this is a positive step, but President Trump doesn't like it. He
says if Canada and the European Union move forward with this proposal he could see it as a hostile act, Trump says he'll put additional heavy tariffs on Europe. The President is
“naming four key people to promote religious freedom around the world. NPR's Jason D. Rose”
reports they include well-known conservative Christian leaders. President Trump has nominated Sissy Graham Lynch to be the next U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. She's the granddaughter of Evangelist Billy Graham and the daughter of evangelical leader, Franklin Graham. The President is also appointing three people to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the founder of Word on Fire
Catholic Ministries, Bishop Robert Perrin, a former Christian missionary to Turkey, Andrew Brunson, who now leads a ministry focused on persecuted Christians and Joe Grogan, a former director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council and a former assistant to President Trump. Jason D. Rose and PR news. The graphic artist Peter Max is died in New York at the age of 88, according to his son. The New York Times reports he'd suffered from dementia.
Max was famous in the 1960s for his simple graphic works known as psychedelic pop art. This is work even appeared on a U.S. postage stamp. He's also an artist for the Olympics and the Super Bowl. This is NPR. I haven't seen my son since 2012. This is Deborah Tyson. The disappearance of her son, Austin, is one of the biggest missing person cases in the world.
"What do you want from me? Why should I have the mystery?" "I know that my son is somewhere alive." Listen to "Where is Austin Tyson?" from MPR's Embedded and BBC Radio 4.
