Giles Snyder

However, oil prices also rebounding.

They had eased after President Trump said he's been talking with Iran about a potential end to the war.

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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

Israel has launched a new wave of attacks on Iran.

The Israeli military says the strikes have been named at targets in the Iranian capital.

And they come a day after President Trump said he told Israel not to repeat strikes on Iranian gas infrastructure.

Trump speaking at the White House Thursday alongside the visiting Japanese prime minister on social media.

Trump said he was not informed in advance of Israel's attack on Iran's South Pars gas field.

And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel acted alone.

Tit-for-tat strikes on energy facilities have led to sharply escalating prices.

And as the Iran war escalates, the Trump administration plans to release 150 million barrels of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

From Houston Public Media, Natalie Weber reports that experts say the release will have little effect on the cost of the pump.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is supporting a plan to rename the state holiday name for Cesar Chavez as Farm Workers Day.

The move comes after new sexual misconduct allegations against the late labor leader.

They surfaced earlier this week as Frida Chavala Romero reports from member station KQED.

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The senior vice president of Supermicrocomputer and two others affiliated with the company have been charged with conspiring to smuggle at least $2.5 billion of computer servers with advanced NVIDIA chips to China.

The indictment was unsealed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday.

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