Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
The price of fuel continues to soar.
According to the motoring club AAA, just overnight,
the average national price of diesel leapt nearly nine cents a gallon.
It's at $6.40.
The conflict in Iran is forcing up prices, but there is a second issue.
NPR's Aya Batrawi says Saudi Arabia's oil exports have been slashed
because it's facing a renewed war with Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen.
Data from OPEC shows that Saudi Arabia's oil output fell to around 6.2 million barrels a day last month.
Now compare that to 11 million barrels a day before the U.S.
War with Iran.
And the Saudis are now facing these two chokeholds, one in the Strait of Hormuz
and, since July, a blockade on its ships by the Houthis through Beban Mandap.
That is the other key shipping straight through the Red Sea.
The Saudis were using the Red Sea to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
NPR's Aya Batrowi reporting.
The House of Representatives has been dismissed on early recess.
Speaker Johnson says the House got a lot done, but Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massey excoriated the Speaker.
He says that means the House will not take up his articles of impeachment
against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for the Iran war or continue investigating the Epstein files.