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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on global oil prices and the Iran War?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. With global oil prices surging, Wall Street finished its first winning week since the start of the Iran War. All three major indexes notched weekly gains. But trading has been volatile, and during his primetime speech Wednesday night, President Trump offered no clear timeline for ending the war. NPR's Maria Aspen.
Now we're seeing investors swinging from fear that the war is going to drag on for months or more... to hope that President Trump is going to end the war soon, and then back again to fear, especially after Trump's speech last night. This all matters to Wall Street mostly because of oil. The war has already created a global energy crisis, as we know, which means higher gas and diesel prices.
And if it continues much longer, everything's going to get more expensive.
NPR's Maria Aspen reporting the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA kicked off a multi-state campus tour Thursday, nearly seven months after the group's founder, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed while speaking with students at an event in Utah. NPR's Elena Moore reports this first event in Washington, D.C. comes as supporters wrestle with what a post-Kirk Turning Point looks like.
Charlie Kirk was known for his political debates with students on college campuses around the country. But that wasn't the format of Turning Point's latest event at the George Washington University, where Kirk's widow and the group's new CEO, Erica Kirk, spoke with White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt.
The two discussed Leavitt's career and her Christian faith and took just a few questions from the audience. It left 21-year-old Marine Elise Nisbet disappointed.
I have new friends that are abroad right now in the act of war and we're having juvenile conversation.
The second stop on Turning Point's tour is set for later this month in Georgia, where Erica Kirk will be joined by Vice President J.D. Vance. Elena Moore, NPR News.
A key agency has approved President Trump's plan to build a 90,000 square foot ballroom where the White House's East Wing once stood. But NPR's Frank Lankford reports a federal judge says the plan still needs approval from Congress.
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Chapter 2: How is Turning Point USA adapting after the loss of its founder?
I'm Giles Snyder, NPR News.
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