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🎧 Trump's shifting his stance on the Strait, which was once the basis for his most serious threats against Iran, marks a significant reversal, NPR’s Mara Liasson tells Up First. The president appears to be seeking a way out of the conflict, she adds. Trump says he has achieved some of his objectives, even as some have contradicted each other and changed rapidly over these few weeks. Liasson says the president has reached his pain threshold. He now says the U.S. can exit without even needing to negotiate.
🎧 The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran has pushed gasoline prices above $4 a gallon — the highest in more than three years. Diesel prices are up even more. This increase could raise the cost of goods transported across the U.S. by truck or train, NPR’s Scott Horsley says. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projects the war will push U.S. inflation back above 4%. Employers, already hesitant to hire before the war, will likely become even more cautious due to uncertainty about energy prices and consumer spending, Horsley says.

🎧 The president has long argued that the Constitution does not guarantee birthright citizenship, NPR’s Nina Totenberg says. On the first day of his second term, Trump issued an executive order that denies automatic citizenship to any baby born in the U.S. to parents who entered the country illegally or who are living and working here legally on temporary visas. The landmark case often cited for birthright citizenship centers around Wong Kim Ark, born to Chinese immigrants in San Francisco in 1873. His parents later returned to China. After visiting them there, he was denied reentry to the U.S. because officials said he wasn't a citizen. He challenged this decision and won in a 6-2 Supreme Court ruling. The Trump administration points to the case, saying the court's language assumes that Wong's parents were legally in the U.S. at the time of his birth. In response, the ACLU’s Cecillia Wong is expected to tell the Supreme Court today that the men who wrote the 14th Amendment intended to confer automatic citizenship on the child, not the parent.