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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. US gas prices are the highest they have been since 2022. The Auto Club AAA finds drivers are now paying on average $4 for a gallon of regular gasoline. The surge at the gas pump connected to higher oil prices tied to the U. S. Israel war against Iran. The latest attack involved an Iranian strike on a Kuwaiti oil tanker. Today. Authorities in Dubai said there was no oil leakage and no U.S. defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently made an undisclosed trip to the Middle east to visit US Troops. He discusses visit during a news conference at the Pentagon. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports. Hegseth claims regime change has been achieved in Iran.
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Hegseth visited troops over the weekend. He said morale was high and the US Is rapidly building bunkers to protect troops and aircraft from Iranian strikes. Hegseth echoed President Trump's claim that Iran's new leadership is now more moderate. Many Iran experts believe it's more hardline. Hegseth said opening the Strait of Hormuz and rocketing worldwide oil prices are not America's problem.
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Countries around the world who ought be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. It's not just the United States Navy.
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He said the Trump administration prefers a negotiated settlement but would not rule out using ground troops. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
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The U.S. supreme Court has ruled 8 to 1 against a law that bans conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors in color. The majority of the court finds the law raises free speech concerns. Here's NPR's Nina Totenberg.
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Colorado's law addressing conversion therapy does not just ban physical interventions in cases like this, it centers speech based on viewpoint. Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety, certainly censorious governments throughout history have believed the same. But the First Amendment stands as a shift shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.
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NPR's Nina Totenberg. Federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether large payouts on prediction market sites like Polymarket have violated Insider Trading Laws. NPR's Bobby Allen reports.
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Polymarket betters earned hundreds of thousands of dollars on the timing of military strikes in Iran and when Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was captured. Now prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are investigating the trades. CNN first reported the probe. Both Polymar Market and its main competitor Kalshi say they ban insider trading, but policing is largely left up to the platforms themselves. Polymarket has had many markets on wars and military actions. It operates an overseas exchange based in Panama. A spokesman FOR New York's U.S. attorney's office said prediction markets are not outside the scope of anti money laundering and insider trading laws. Billions of dollars are bet Every week on Polymarket in Kalshi.
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That's Bobby Allen. It's NPR. A Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of oil docked today at the Cuban port of Matanzas. It's the first such tanker to reach the island in three months since shipments were halted by its main supplier, Venezuela. In January, the US Military seized former President Nicolas Maduro and his wife to face drug trafficking charges in New York. Despite a US Blockade, The Trump administration says it did not object to other assistance to Cuba. As sports betting expands across the US Concerns about addiction are growing, especially among young people. Now, the University of Mississippi is launching what it calls the first research center of its kind in the nation, focused on gambling on college campuses. Here's NPR's Windsor Johnston.
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The center on Collegiate Gambling will study how betting affects students and student athletes, including addiction risks, mental health and pressure tied to game outcomes. It will also develop prevention strategies and help shape policy. Kate Humble with the National Council on Problem Gambling says the ease of access is a major concern. It's all available right in your pocket and not just accessible, but available 24 7. You can bet on the Eagles and then you can also, at 2am bet on Bulgarian ping pong or something kind of round the clock if you're looking for betting opportunities. Humble says that kind of constant access combined with limited education about risk can make younger users especially vulnerable. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
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