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5 min readPresident Trump expressed confidence Thursday that gasoline prices will fall sharply once the war with Iran ends, even as the national average for a gallon of regular climbed 27 cents in a single week to roughly $4.30. “The gas will go down. As soon as the war is over, it’ll drop like a rock,” Trump said, adding that oil is “all over the place, sitting all over the oceans of the world.” With the Strait of Hormuz still closed, Brent crude is currently trading around $114 per barrel.
Homeland Security funding ends record shutdown
President Trump signed a bill Thursday ending the longest-ever shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. The measure explicitly excludes funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of the Border Patrol. NPR’s Sam Greenglass reported that the funding impasse began when Republicans and Democrats clashed over money for those two agencies. Senate Republicans, with White House approval, struck a deal with Democrats to separate ICE and Border Patrol from the rest of DHS, allowing funding to flow again to agencies like the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard. However, the bill sat in the House for a month amid internal GOP disagreements. The House finally acted as money Trump was using to keep DHS paychecks flowing was about to run out.
Surveillance program extended, Louisiana primaries delayed
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- 1 (00:04) **Trump Predicts Gas Prices Will Drop After Iran War** - President Trump expresses confidence that the end of the Iran war will lead to lower gas prices.
- 2 (00:41) **Trump Signs Bill Ending DHS Shutdown** - The president signs a measure ending the record-long shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, excluding funding for ICE and parts of Border Patrol.
- 3 (01:44) **House Extends Key Surveillance Program** - The House gives final approval for a 45-day extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), sending it to President Trump's desk.
- 4 (02:01) **Texas Summer Camp Will Not Reopen After Deadly Flood** - Camp Mystic, where 25 campers and two counselors died in catastrophic flooding last July, will not reopen for the 2026 summer season.
- 5 (03:03) **Louisiana Primary Elections Postponed** - The primary elections for Congress in Louisiana have been put off following a Supreme Court ruling that struck down a majority-black district.
- 6 (03:28) **Man Charged in Stabbings of Two Jewish Men in London** - A 45-year-old man, Essa Suleiman, is due in court for his first appearance, charged with two counts of attempted murder.
- 7 (03:50) **Global Study Reveals Rates of Postpartum Depression** - A study in The Lancet Psychiatry finds that about one in fifteen women experience major depressive disorder in the year after childbirth.
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