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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.

The U.S.

has had export restrictions on China for advanced AI chips since 2022.

The Justice Department says two of the men have been arrested.

A third remains a fugitive.

A private investigator has been trying to convince the U.K.

not to send him to the U.S.

to face charges of orchestrating a hacking campaign against climate activists.

Ampere's Michael Copley reports a court in London has denied the appeal.

A federal panel made up of members appointed by President Trump has greenlit a commemorative coin featuring his image.

The coin won unanimous approval Thursday from the Commission of Fine Arts.

It's a 24-year gold coin and is to be part of a series of coins the U.S.