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and Israel started attacking Iran nearly two weeks ago.

Some 2,000 people are believed to have been killed, with Lebanon's death toll from Israeli strikes climbing to more than 600.

The Israeli army is hitting southern Lebanon and the suburbs of Beirut as it targets Hezbollah strongholds.

NPR's Hadil El-Shalchi reports that humanitarian groups are alarmed.

A British warship, the HMS Dragon, has departed southern England for Cyprus, where a British military base was hit by an Iranian drone.

The UK has given Washington limited use of its military bases for the war on Iran, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from London.

A mixed day for the markets as the price of oil rose again, but inflation held steady.

NPR's Maria Aspin reports a Dow dropped and the S&P 500 down slightly.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq saw a modest gain.

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The Trump administration is planning to release 172 million barrels of oil from its strategic petroleum reserve, part of a wider release coordinated by the International Energy Agency aimed at calming energy markets amid the Iran war.

The IEA, based in Paris, says it will make a record 400 million barrels available from the emergency reserves of its member countries.

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share amounts to more than 40 percent of the release.

Student loan borrowers could be getting wrong information from the companies that manage their loans.

That's according to the Nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.

Here's NPR's Corey Turner.

The WNBA and its players union have yet to reach a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement.

The two sides started talking again Wednesday afternoon in New York after ending a 12-hour negotiating session early Wednesday morning.