Sabri Beneshour

Iran and Israel are still trading fire.

Israel continued strikes in Lebanon, where a million people have been displaced.

The price of oil is still hovering around $100 a barrel.

It is tax season, and thanks to last year's GOP tax and spending law, there are lots of changes to the rules.

As Marketplace's senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams reports, one of the biggest involves the deduction for state and local taxes.

In a few months, soccer fans will flock from around the world to 16 cities across North America for the World Cup.

The matches are happening from mid-June to mid-July, and each one is expected to be massive, tens of thousands of fans per game.

All those fans will need a way to get to the games.

And many will take public transit.

So a lot of transit agencies in World Cup host cities are planning to expand service during the tournament.

And in some cases, they're making an extra push to finish up big infrastructure projects in time, as Marketplace's Henry Epp reports.

Our producers are Emma Condon, Tamar Fagan, Ashley Rodriguez, Ariana Rosas, and Erica Soderstrom.

Our senior producer is Alex Schroeder.

Our supervising senior producer is Meredith Gerritsen-Morby.

And in New York, I'm Sabri Beneshour with the Marketplace Morning Report.

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The cost of war will run the numbers from Marketplace.

I'm Sabri Beneshour, in for David Brancaccio.

First, there are reports this morning that several cargo ships were hit in the Strait of Hormuz today.

They have not sunk and crews are safe.