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0:00Line from NPR News in Washington, on Corvo Coleman. President Trump took questions from reporters yesterday about the U.S. and Israeli war in Iran. He's been giving conflicting reasons for why he launched the attack. And Piers-Mara Liasin says Trump declared what he's looking for now. The dominant message was declaring victory. And after you declare victory, you tend to look for an off-ramp. The quote, this was just an excursion. We're close to finishing very soon. He talked about, he said, we've already won. But then in the next breath, he said, but we haven't won enough, and we're determined to achieve total victory. And Piers-Mara Liasin reporting, the U.S. and Israel continue to fire at Iran. And Iran is firing back at its neighbors. Bahrain says, and Iranian attack hit a residential building in its capital. At least one person was killed. Officials in the United Arab Emirates say they've intercepted Iranian missiles and drones. The war has contributed to volatility in the oil markets.

1:01Officials with the group of seven industrialized nation spoke yesterday, they say they're prepared to release crude oil reserves to bolster world oil supply. But they haven't done it yet. Meanwhile, Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the U.S. is considering a release of oil from its own reserves. From Colorado Public Radio, Ishaan Takor has more. During a tour of a natural gas plant in Colorado, Wright said the U.S. is considering quote, coordinated releases of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. The SPR sits on the Gulf Coast and currently holds more than 400 million barrels of oil. The war in Iran is choking global oil supplies. A coordinated release from countries like the U.S., France, Canada, and more could help stabilize prices. Here's Wright. What we do have our gasoline and our diesel and our jet fuel prices up. That hurts American citizens, consumers, we are doing everything we can to alleviate that. The average gas price in the U.S. has already jumped about 50 cents in a week, according to AAA.

2:02No decision has been made yet about a release. For MPR News, I'm Ishaan Takor in Platteville, Colorado. U.S. air travelers are still seeing long wait times at airport security checkpoints around the country. And Pierre's jewel rose has more. Security lines snaked out of the terminal and into the parking garage at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans. But Houston's hobby airport passengers waited three hours or more at security checkpoints on Sunday. Austin Quayar was trying to get home to Chicago. We were going to try to look at getting earlier flights, but we came and get up to ask go at this point. The Department of Homeland Security blamed the long lines on the partial government shutdown. Workers at the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, have been working without pay for more than three weeks. After lawmakers and the White House failed to agree on changes to how immigration officers operate. You're listening to NPR News. There are more elections today. There's a special election in the Georgia Congressional District, formerly held by

3:06Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. There are 17 candidates all running against each other because party affiliation does not matter in today's Georgia election. Separately, Mississippi is holding its primary elections today to select candidates for this year's midterm elections. A new study finds that social media use can be linked to symptoms of mental health problems and substance abuse in children and adolescents. NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports the link between social media use and depression was stronger for kids in their early teens. The study was a meta-analysis of more than 150 previously published studies involving nearly 19,000 participants. Researchers found that social media use among children and adolescents was consistently associated with higher levels of depression, self-harm, substance use and behavioral issues. It was also linked to poor academic performance and poorer perception of oneself. The study also looked at impacts of video games on kids and found them to be linked with

4:07aggression and other behavioral concerns. Video games were also linked to modest increases in attention and executive functioning. The results are published in JAMA Pediatrics, Ritu Chatterjee and NPR News. International Weather Service is warning the central and southern plains today of the strong chance of severe weather that could include hail and a few tornadoes. This comes after last Friday's deadly tornado outbreak that killed eight people, four of them in Michigan. You're listening to NPR. Listen to this podcast Sponsor-Free on Amazon Music with a Prime Membership or any podcast that by subscribing to NPR News Now Plus at plus.npr.org.