NPR News: 03-31-2026 11AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, on Core of a Coleman, President Trump has posted a video online of a large explosion he didn't explain anything about it. The Associated Press reports this is a likely U.S. attack on the Iranian city of Isfahan, and fears Emily Fang has more. Posting without context or caption, President Trump shared on social media a video of two successive explosions, one leaving a giant cloud of smoke. Around the same time, several social media videos from within Iran were shared with diaspora websites, despite a widespread telecommunications blackout in Iran, and they showed what appeared to be secondary explosions around a military site in Isfahan, including a possible munitions depot. Iran's Navy said it had struck a container ship in a Persian Gulf, it claimed was owned by Israel, in response to Israel's repeated strikes on Tehran this week. The National Average price of gasoline has risen of $4 a gallon according to AAA, that's more than a dollar higher than what it was before the war started a month ago, and

1:00Pierce Camila Domenoski reports. Last year, gasoline prices were remarkably stable, a straight line more or less. For most of 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 switched to summer gasoline, and the typical seasonal rise in demand aren't 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. Camila Domenoski, NPR News. So you as Supreme Court has blocked at Colorado Law, the state law blocks therapists from using what's called conversion therapy to change a teenager's sexual orientation or gender identity. The high court ruled the law wrongly regulates speech based on a viewpoint. The case was brought by an evangelical Christian who provides this talk therapy.

2:02A federal panel has decided to let the oil and gas industry operate in the Gulf of Mexico, without following the Endangered Species Act rules. And Secretary Pete Hegseth convened a rare meeting. He did not extensively consult environmental agencies. He cited national security. Environmental groups say many endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico could be made extinct. TSA agents are getting some of their back pay, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to find money for them after more than a month of unpaid work. The government co-coms is a TSA agent in Boise, Idaho. It's been nice that we got these paychecks, but at the end of the day, you know, we are still going to be behind with our late fees and all these different things. The Homeland Security Department is still partially shut down, as Congress disputes funding for the agency. You're listening to NPR. A California sheriff who seized more than half a million state ballots says he has paused

3:05his probe into election fraud. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, is also running for California governor. He says there are legal challenges against his probe. California's Attorney General says the sheriff has no authority over election material. Today is the birthday of late labor and farm workers leader Cesar Chavez. Arizona lawmakers have sent a bipartisan bill to Democratic governor Katie Hobbs. It repeals the state's holiday honoring him. Riverside says she will sign it for Member Station KJZZ Wayne Shutsky has more. The Arizona House approved the bill days after multiple women alleged Chavez used his power and influence in the labor movement he helped lead to sexually abuse them. The bill had bipartisan support, but some Democrats criticized Republicans for repealing the holiday altogether instead of replacing it with a new day honoring the farm workers' movement. Representative Mariana Sandoval. I'm willing to recognize honor and uplift the voices of workers who feed this nation

4:06and to confront the exploitation they often endure misses an important opportunity to unite us. A spokesman for Hobbs said she will sign the bill and look for other ways to recognize the farm workers' movement. For NPR News, I'm Wayne Shutsky in Phoenix. NASA is preparing to launch its Artemis 2 mission tomorrow night from Florida for astronauts are to be launched into space, there to fly around the moon, and return to Earth within 10 days. On Wall Street at this hour, the Dow was up about 440 points. This is NPR.