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NPR News Anchor
Join them@brex.com live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. President Trump says the US Will guide stranded ships through the Strait of Hormuz starting on Monday on X. Centcom says the military will support the effort using troops, guided missile destroyers and land and sea based aircraft. This is the war with Iran is at a stalemate. NPR's Tamara Keith reports.
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Tamara Keith
Global oil prices are up. The the price of regular gasoline in the US is averaging well over $4 a gallon. And the critical Strait of Hormuz has been functionally closed for weeks now. President Trump says that for humanitarian reasons to get ships and crews safely out of the area, the US Will guide them through the strait. He's calling it Project Freedom. Quote, if in any way this humanitarian process is interfered with, that interference will unfortunately have to be dealt with for forcefully. Iran hasn't agreed to reopen the strait. It is one of many matters on the table as the US And Iran trade and reject proposals to end the war. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
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NPR News Anchor
The federal prosecutor overseeing the case against the suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents association dinner says buckshot that struck a Secret Service agent came from the suspect's weapon. On CNN, State of the Union Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D, Says the shot from Cole Thomas Allen's weapon hit the agent's bullet resistant vest.
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Jeanine Pirro
Well, we have been able to determine which gun it was. First of all, there is video of the defendant shooting at the Secret Service agent. There is also the agent who will tell you himself that he was shot at and then he returned the fire.
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NPR News Anchor
The officer was briefly treated and survived the attack. Pirro last week said there's no evidence the agent was hit by so called friendly fire. The governor of Alabama is calling for a special legislative session beginning Monday after the Supreme Court ruling last week that weakened the Voting Rights Act. Andrew Gelderman from member station WBHM reports.
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Andrew Gelderman
A federal court ruling in 2023 created a near majority black district in Alabama which elected Alabama's second Democratic representative. A year later, the state is under a court order to use that congressional map until 2030. But an appeal pending before the Supreme Court argues the map is an illegal racial gerrymander, a claim similar to the one in the case decided by the Supreme Court this week. If the high court rules the current map is illegal, Alabama would go back to the previous congressional map. Alabama's Republican governor Kay Ivey called a special legislative session to start Monday in preparation for a possible ruling. She wants lawmakers to plan for special primary elections if the court allows the state to use the old map. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Gelderman in Birmingham, Alabama.
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NPR News Anchor
And from Washington, this is NPR News. California police can now ticket self driving cars for traffic violations. The state's DMV has approved what it calls the most comprehensive regulations on autonomous vehicles in the nation. Aditi Bulamudi reports from San Francisco in station kqed.
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Aditi Bulamudi
California's new rules also allow autonomous vehicle makers to deploy heavy duty self driving cars and trucks onto streets across the state, effectively opening the market for freight operations. Matt Broad, a legislative advocate for Teamsters California, says there are instances across the country where self driving cars have driven through crime scenes, obstructed traffic and shut down during inclement weather.
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Matt Broad
The response from regulators has been sort of full steam ahead and not, hey, maybe we ought to really think about how this is working one in deployment and also the sort of larger socioeconomic concerns.
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Aditi Bulamudi
In July, new rules will go into effect requiring those cars to move out of the way and work with first responders during emergencies. For NPR News, I'm Aditi Bandlamudi in San Francisco.
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NPR News Anchor
The price of a gallon of gasoline has risen more than 30 cents in just the last week. And AAA says the national average is now $4.44 a gallon. A week ago it was just below $4.10 a gallon. On February, two days before the US and Israel began military action, unleaded regular was below $3 a gallon. Gasoline prices are the highest they've been in almost four years, and an energy analyst tells NPR prices could even go even higher. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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