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Oil markets are waiting for a decision from the International Energy Agency, or the IEA.

The organization could decide to release oil from petroleum stockpiles.

That could ease the sudden oil shortage triggered by the war against Iran.

Oil shipping is ground to a halt in the Persian Gulf.

That's from where much of the world gets its oil.

A British maritime agency says three ships have been hit in the region today.

The U.S.

military reports it has sunk 16 Iranian vessels that could plant mines in the water there.

The White House is clarifying President Trump's remarks about Iran and the need for its unconditional surrender to end U.S.

and Israeli airstrikes against that country.

And Piers Franco-Ortonez reports.

A new congressional report finds that overpayments in private Medicare plans have raised the cost for all seniors in the system by billions of dollars.

As NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin explains, criticism of the Medicare plans has grown in the last few years.

A new NPR-PBS News Marist poll finds that close to half of all Americans support the idea of assigning National Guard troops to patrol polling places for the upcoming midterm elections.

Many Americans do not realize that it is illegal for the federal government to deploy these troops to monitor voting.

President Trump has suggested that he wished that he had deployed the National Guard in 2020.

He's falsely claimed he won that presidential election.

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