Trump taps strategic oil reserve to drop gas prices as Iran War sparks strikes across Middle East

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President Trump says tonight he will tap the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to keep gas prices from climbing as the war with Iran squeezes global oil supplies. At this hour, a new barrage of strikes is lighting up Beirut as the conflict threatens to ignite an oil war across the region. Plus, new attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran is effectively holding the critical trade route hostage. And new details tonight about that strike on an Iranian school: an attack the United States is now believed to be responsible for.

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