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Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven use update. The

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Speaker 1: latest use this hour in just four minutes.

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Speaker 2: South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is encouraging President Trump to

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Speaker 2: wind down the conflict with Iran and wind up efforts

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Speaker 2: for a peace deal. Graham has faced recent scrutiny for

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Speaker 2: his appearance support of using ground troops in Iran, but

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Speaker 2: it seems he's now leaning toward a diplomatic solution. Gas

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Speaker 2: prices continue to climb day by day as the war continues.

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Speaker 2: The latest from Tammy Triheo.

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Speaker 3: Triple A says today's national average has crossed the four

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Speaker 3: dollars mark at four oh one a gallon for regular.

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Speaker 3: A month ago, the national average was two ninety eight.

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Speaker 3: Drivers in California are still seeing the highest prices in

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Speaker 3: the country at five eighty eight a gallon on average.

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Speaker 3: I'm Tammy Triheo.

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Speaker 2: TSA workers are starting to receive their retroactive paychecks as

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Speaker 2: the partial government shut down continues. Paychecks reportedly began hitting employees'

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Speaker 2: bank account on Monday, but officials have caution that there

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Speaker 2: might be some delays in paying TSA officers back in full.

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Speaker 2: The White House is hoping for a path for the

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Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security to reopen. More from Mark Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: Thence, according to Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, who's in President

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Speaker 1: Trump can't keep issuing executive orders to PAINTSA workers.

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Speaker 4: Unfortunately, even as President Trump is working hard every single

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Speaker 4: day to protect the United States from foreign enemies, Democrats

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Speaker 4: on Capitol Hill have failed to do the same here

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Speaker 4: at home by keeping the Department of Homeland Security unfunded.

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Speaker 1: Trump on Friday directed the DHS to preening TSA agents

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Speaker 1: in an effort to end the long security checkpoint lines

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Speaker 1: at airports across the US. On Monday, Levit again pointed

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Speaker 1: the blame it Democrats for the shutdown. The funding battle

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Speaker 1: that centers around ICE reforms has reached forty six days,

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Speaker 1: making it the longest shutdown of a government agency in

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Speaker 1: US history. A Markneefield.

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Speaker 2: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is signaling a wait and

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Speaker 2: see approach on interest rates. He was delivering remarks at

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Speaker 2: Harvard on Monday, and he said the Central Bank continues

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Speaker 2: to monitor inflation expectations. I'm Michael Kassner. President Trump's approval

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Speaker 2: rating is hitting a new low. More from Jim Roop.

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Speaker 5: A new University of Massachusetts Amherst. Pole finds only thirty

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Speaker 5: three percent of respondents say they approve of the president's

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Speaker 5: job performance, compared to sixty two percent who say they disapprove.

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Speaker 5: Polling shows that even fewer of those surveys support the

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Speaker 5: Trump administration's operations in Iran, with only twenty nine percent

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Speaker 5: backing the president's handling of that conflict. Respondents also cited

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Speaker 5: weak job performance from Trump on the issue of inflation.

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Speaker 2: Taxes are due soon and Americans once again face the

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Speaker 2: age old standard versus itemized deduction question. More from Monica Hoffman.

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Speaker 6: Tax season is here and Americans can go two directions

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Speaker 6: to itemize or to use the standard deduction. Chief tax

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Speaker 6: information officer at Jackson Hewitt Mark Steber says a lot

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Speaker 6: of Americans go with the standard deduction.

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Speaker 7: Because they know that amount thirty one thousand, five hundred

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Speaker 7: if you're married, fifteen thousand, seven fifty if you're single,

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Speaker 7: twenty three thousand, six twenty five if you're a single person,

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Speaker 7: unmarried with a dependent, and there's some other issues for

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Speaker 7: older people.

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Speaker 8: But you just take that money and you write that

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Speaker 8: off on your tax return.

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Speaker 6: Now, Steber does add the itemized deduction will be worth

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Speaker 6: it if it makes sense for you and your circumstances.

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Speaker 8: If you have mortgage interest, and property taxes, and state

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Speaker 8: income taxes, and sales taxes, and charitable donations and even

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Speaker 8: medical to some degree, had a few others for miscellaneous.

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Speaker 8: You add all that up, and if it's bigger than

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Speaker 8: those standard amounts, you take the bigger.

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Speaker 7: Of the two.

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Speaker 6: The tax filing deadline is coming up on Wednesday, April

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Speaker 6: fifteenth at midnight.

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Speaker 2: Justices on the Supreme Court are keeping the Tiger King

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Speaker 2: in his cage after declining is appealed to throw out

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Speaker 2: as twenty nineteen murder for higher conviction. Joe Exotic is

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Speaker 2: serving a twenty one year prison sentence after a federal

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Speaker 2: grand jury found him guilty of paying a man to

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Speaker 2: kill rifle animal rights activist Carol Baskin. I'm Michael Cassner.