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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. U.S. airstrikes have reportedly hit an Iranian city that is also home to one of Iran's main nuclear sites.
Chapter 2: What recent events have escalated tensions in Iran?
President Trump posted a video of explosions online but did not identify it. The Associated Press reports it's likely the Iranian city of Isfahan. Separately, Kuwait is blaming Iran for a strike on a Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The fire was put out. No one was injured. Meanwhile, the national average price of gasoline has risen above $4 a gallon, according to AAA.
That's more than a dollar higher than it was before the war started a month ago. And Piers Camilla Dominovsky reports.
Last year, gasoline prices were remarkably stable, a straight line more or less. So far this month, they've also been a straight line, almost straight up. Prices vary around the country, most expensive on the West Coast and least expensive in the middle of the continent, but they're rising everywhere. Crude oil is driving prices up as the war in Iran disrupts global oil trade.
A switch to summer gasoline and the typical seasonal rise in demand are not helping. The average cost of public charging electric vehicles is 41 cents a kilowatt hour. AAA reports up slightly two cents from a month ago. Camilla Dominovsky, NPR News.
The U.N. Security Council holds an emergency meeting today after three U.N. peacekeepers were killed in Lebanon. Israel has invaded southern Lebanon and is fighting there with Hezbollah militants. NPR's Lauren Freyer reports from Beirut.
All three of the UN peacekeepers killed are from Indonesia, which has also pledged to send troops for a future international force in Gaza.
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Chapter 3: How are gasoline prices being affected by the war in Iran?
One was killed by what Indonesia's foreign ministry called indirect artillery fire. Two others by what the UN called an explosion of unknown origin that destroyed their vehicle. Indonesia's foreign minister is calling for a swift, thorough and transparent investigation. Israel says it's trying to figure out whether its troops or Hezbollah were responsible.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his military's aims in Iran are beyond halfway complete, but that Israel is widening its invasion of Lebanon. The latest attacks hit Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon's east.
Lauren Frayer, NPR News, Beirut. In the U.S., airport security lines were mostly shorter yesterday. President Trump signed an executive order telling the Department of Homeland Security to move money around and pay TSA workers. And peers Joel Rose says they've not been paid in more than a month because DHS is still partly shut down.
We still don't know exactly where the money is coming from. A lot of the Trump administration's critics are wondering if it is even legal for the White House to do this. If it is legal, why didn't it happen sooner? Thousands of TSA officers have called out of work since the shutdown began. Many have picked up second jobs, leading to some of the longest security lines in the agency's history.
But we still don't know when those security screeners will get paid next.
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a hearing today. It will focus on the probable causes of two fatal crashes involving Ford cars that led motorists take their hands off the wheel. People in other cars, not the Ford vehicles, were killed in these incidents. Ford and other automakers say the hands-free systems are not intended to replace human drivers.
Educators in California are grappling with how to discuss the late labor leader Cesar Chavez. There's a holiday that honors him and the rights he secured for farm workers. But his legacy is now being questioned. From member station KQED in San Francisco, Katie Dinabetti has more.
Teachers are reworking lesson plans about Chavez after allegations earlier this month that he abused two young girls and raped fellow labor leader Dolores Huerta. Chavez's legacy is widely taught in the state where he co-founded the United Farm Workers.
But after California renamed today's holiday Farm Workers Day, teachers are shifting focus to the movement's lesser-known Filipino leaders and women like Huerta. Here's San Francisco ethnic studies teacher Samantha Aguirre.
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