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What recent statements did Iran's supreme leader make regarding nuclear capabilities?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic will protect its nuclear and missile capabilities and says Americans belong at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. His remarks come as Iran's oil industry is struggling under a U.S. Navy blockade and as the global economy feels the strain of Iran's chokehold on the street of Hormuz. Today, President Trump dismissed concerns that high gas prices will linger long after the Iran war.
The gas will go down. As soon as the war's over, it'll drop like a rock. There's so much of it. It's all over the place, sitting all over the oceans of the world.
Industry experts say it will take time for gas prices to come down. The motoring club, AAA, says the national average cost for a gallon of regular gas is now $4.30. In California, it's $6.01. NPR's Stephen Basaja checked in with how that's affecting motorists. The cost to fill up her Silverado in Birmingham, Alabama, makes Mary Kaiser numb.
I don't feel anything at all. I'm just disappointed.
Chris Covey's visiting family and says gas has not affected his driving yet. The place where I'm starting to notice it is the price of groceries because a lot of things are trucked into where I live in Arizona. Gas prices started dropping about two weeks ago with hopes these Strait of Hormuz would reopen. But Aixa Diaz with AAA says with no clear end to the war in sight, prices are climbing back up. It's so volatile and it really just depends on what's happening geopolitically and that can change by the day. Overall, gas prices are up about 44% since the war began more than two months ago. Stephen Basaja, NPR News.
Louisiana has postponed its congressional primary election after a new Supreme Court ruling that further weakens the landmark Voting Rights Act. As NPR's Hansi Lawong reports, Republican officials in some other southern states are also pushing to redraw congressional maps in time for this year's midterm election.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority has reinterpreted the Voting Rights Act's longstanding protections against racial discrimination and redistricting. And that has made it easier for Republican-controlled state legislatures, particularly in the South, to get rid of Democratic-represented House districts that were likely protected under the landmark law. Republican officials in states including Georgia and Tennessee are now calling for congressional redistricting as soon as possible to help the GOP keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives after this year's midterm election. But it could be too late for many states to redraw maps this year. Whenever the map drawing happens, redistricting experts say the United States is headed towards the largest ever decline in representation by black members of Congress.
Anzila Wong, NPR News.
The House has voted to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security and bring an end to the longest agency shutdown in history. The bipartisan package had already passed the Senate and it now goes to President Trump. The shutdown has lasted for 75 days as Democrats refused to fund Trump's immigration enforcement operations without changes. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The first direct flight between the U.S. and Venezuela in seven years has arrived in the capital Caracas. The U.S. suspended flights in 2019 over safety concerns. The resumption comes after the U.S. reopened its embassy following the Trump administration's capture of President Nicolas Maduro. A scientist who played a critical role in the sequencing of the human genome has died.
NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports J. Craig Venter's work accelerated the mapping of humanity's DNA.
Scientists gathered at the White House 26 years ago with President Bill Clinton to mark what was basically the completion of efforts to sequence all human genes. Venter was celebrated at the event for his rival sequencing effort that gave the government-funded Human Genome Project a run for its money. His company, Celera Genomics, pioneered new, faster approaches.
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