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The White House is facing headwinds on several fronts.

Fuel prices are soaring.

Gasoline is $4.09 a gallon.

Diesel is more than $5.53 a gallon.

This week, President Trump fired his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the Supreme Court expressed skepticism over a White House plan to outlaw birthright citizenship.

NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro says this might be a defining week for the president leading up to the midterm elections.

A French cargo ship has become the first Western tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war in Iran.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports a fifth of the world's oil used to pass through the Strait.

Now it has been nearly entirely choked off.

President Trump says there's a new White House fraud task force that will focus mostly on Democratic-led states.

The White House says it's inspired by fraud in Minnesota and the state-run social services programs.

NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben reports.

Wall Street had the day off Friday for the Good Friday holiday.

Markets will reopen Monday morning at 9.30.

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The Trump administration is suing three states, Arizona, Illinois, and Connecticut, arguing the prediction market industry should be federally regulated, not subject to the rules of the state gambling commissions.

Some states have sued individual companies, claiming they offer unregulated sports gaming.