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Chapter 1: What are the current trends in gasoline prices?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman. AAA says the price of unleaded gasoline now averages $4.42 nationally, down 14 cents in the last week. Costco is getting lots of first-time visitors to its gas stations thanks to the higher gas prices. The chain says it's selling records amount of fuel and shoppers are visiting and also hunting for deals. NPR's Eleni Saluki reports.
Costco says between April and mid-May, it had the best five-week period on record for gas sales. Executives say high gas prices driven by the war in Iran are sending more drivers to its fuel stations for the first time as people are looking for cheaper options. Costco's gas sales by volume set record after record in the last quarter.
The company's overall sales grew 12 percent, with gas being a big factor. both higher sales and higher prices.
Chapter 2: How is Costco responding to rising gas prices?
AAA says regular gas now costs on average $1.20 more than it did a year ago. At the same time, Costco says shoppers are splurging when they find deals they like. Sales of massage chairs jumped in the latest quarter. Alina Seluk, NPR News.
Authorities in Dallas say three people died, including a child, and several others were injured when a natural gas explosion destroyed a residential apartment complex in the city's Oak Cliff neighborhood Thursday.
Officials say they're in the recovery phase, and the fire department spokesman Jason Evans said crews are using drones and digging through the rubble by hand to see if there are additional victims.
We have joined that with an excavation project. phase of the operation. And the hope with doing those simultaneously is to not have us out here as long as we would be otherwise.
Thursday night, the National Transportation Safety Board, which has the authorization to investigate pipeline accidents, said it was sending a team of investigators to Dallas.
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Chapter 3: What happened in Dallas regarding the natural gas explosion?
The natural gas provider will also have its crews at the scene. Louisiana's House has passed a new congressional map with one less Democratic district on Thursday. Brooke Thorrington from member station WRF... WKRF in Baton Rouge reports.
Several individuals had to be removed from the Capitol after the Louisiana House passed a 5-1 congressional map in favor of Republicans. Black lawmakers like Democratic Representative Denise Marcell say the new map is a disappointment. It's frustrating to be here during this time. It's like we're going backwards and I'm really frustrated. The vote comes one month after the U.S.
Supreme Court struck down the state's prior map, which had two majority black districts, and it weakened the Voting Rights Act. Louisiana's new map keeps a single majority black district in place. For NPR News, I'm Brooke Thornton in Baton Rouge.
And that map now goes to the state Senate. You're listening to NPR News. The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into writer E. Jean Carroll.
Chapter 4: What changes were made to Louisiana's congressional map?
Carroll is the woman who won an $83 million civil judgment against President Trump after she accused him of sexually assaulting and defaming her. The Associated Press is reporting the investigation is focusing on the possibility that Carroll may have committed perjury. Trump has also asked the Supreme Court to overturn one of the judgments. However, the U.S.
Attorney's Office in Chicago is denying it opened an investigation. Since returning to the White House, the Justice Department has opened several investigations against perceived enemies and political opponents of the president. The Supreme Court ruled that a Mississippi death row inmate had been denied a fair trial 20 years ago.
Justices said the courts failed to explore charges of racial discrimination. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
Terry Pitchford was 18 when he and a 16-year-old pal were charged with killing a storekeeper in Mississippi.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of E. Jean Carroll's legal situation?
Though the 16-year-old fired the fatal shot, prosecutors cut a deal with him for a 20-year sentence and then obtained a conviction and death sentence against Pitchford. But today, the Supreme Court threw out the conviction because the trial judge allowed the leaving just one black person on the jury in a county that's 40% black.
Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the court's opinion, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and the court's three liberals. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
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