On Monday, average gas prices in the U.S. surged past the $4 mark per gallon, an unsettling development fueled by the resurgence of the Iran conflict sparking renewed anxieties over potential global oil supply shortages.

According to data from AAA, drivers found themselves paying 13 cents more per gallon than they did a week ago, marking a 3% hike and bringing the average price up to $4.003 per gallon.

This uptick in gas prices echoes the surge seen earlier this year following the onset of the Iran crisis toward the end of February. The escalating Middle Eastern tensions led Iran to close the vital Strait of Hormuz, a crucial passageway that accommodates about 20% of the world’s oil flow, causing a spike in fuel costs. Although a tentative agreement between the U.S. and Iran had briefly pushed prices below $4 last month, fuel costs haven’t crossed this threshold since August 2022, a fallout from Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.

Recent retaliatory attacks between the U.S. and Iran have intensified the conflict, significantly undermining hopes for a diplomatic solution.

In a statement on Sunday, President Donald Trump asserted that U.S. forces delivered a powerful blow to Iran as a response to the tragic loss of U.S. service members over the weekend.

U.S. Central Command said two service members were killed in an attack on Jordan on Friday, and that a third service member remained missing. Another service member was killed in Iraq on Saturday, CENTCOM said.

The U.S. resumed its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz last week, reversing a key commitment made as part of the agreement. That move came after Iran fired upon oil tankers in the strait.

The Iran war triggered one of the largest oil shocks ever recorded, sending the national average price of gasoline as high as $4.56 a gallon on May 21, AAA data showed.

Oil and gasoline prices began to fall in late May, however, as Iran and the U.S. appeared willing to strike an agreement that would reopen the strait. By late June, those prices gad fallen fell to their lowest level since before the war began.

Relief at the pump helped bring down prices overall. Inflation dropped more than expected in June as gas prices eased, federal government data on Tuesday showed.

Gas prices rose 3.5% in June compared to a year earlier, marking a retreat from a year-over-year inflation rate of 4.2% in the prior month. The reading for June marked the lowest inflation since March, though the pace of price increases remains more than a percentage point higher than its pre-war level.

Even after easing last month, overall inflation stands markedly higher than the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2%.

ABC News’ David Brennan contributed to this report.

A family has come forward to name the young woman tragically shot to death on Saturday inside a Boston dwelling belonging to Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s husband, Rep. Ayanna Pressley being the representative from Massachusetts.

Although official identification from authorities is pending, relatives revealed through a GoFundMe campaign that the victim is Yoseliani Marte, an 18-year-old woman, as confirmed by her mother.

In her heartfelt description within the fundraiser, Marte’s mother shared that her daughter’s death was a tragic consequence of domestic violence.

Boston police officers arrived at the home located in the Mattapan area shortly after 1:52 p.m. Saturday. Upon arrival, they discovered the young woman suffering from a single gunshot wound, according to police documents reviewed by News Media.

According to public records, the home is owned by Conan Harris, who has been married to Pressley since 2014.

Pressley and Harris do not live at the two-family residence, which has been reported as a rental property, according to the Boston Herald.

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The home is currently listed for sale for $1.15 million.

A spokesperson for Pressley’s office told Boston 25 News that neither the congresswoman nor her family were involved in the incident and that Pressley extends her deepest condolences to the family and loved ones impacted by the tragedy.

A neighbor said the usually calm neighborhood was shaken by the large police response Saturday.

“We got home and there were police coming down the street, they blocked off with crime tape over there and neighbors gathered around,” a neighbor said, according to Boston 25 News.

“I mean it’s sad, it’s really sad because you know this neighborhood is a wonderful place to be.”

Family and friends reportedly held a vigil for the victim Sunday night.

The manner of death remains under investigation, Boston police said.

News Media has reached out to Pressley’s office for comment.

The cost of living in South Florida is escalating rapidly, with newcomers observing that the financial gap between Miami and New York City is shrinking significantly. This change is fueled by rising prices in housing, dining, and everyday expenses.

According to the latest Regional Price Parities report from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Miami metropolitan area’s cost of living now ranks just behind the San Francisco Bay area. For the first time, it has overtaken the New York metro area, which now sits in third place, based on comparisons of 2024 data.

The report indicated that the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area scored 114.155, as opposed to the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area’s 112.563. Both regions are noticeably more expensive than the national average of 100, but Miami has taken the lead for the first time.

This shift is a result of significant price increases throughout South Florida. Costs related to private-school tuition, insurance, and dining out in Miami have all surpassed last year’s prices.

In the Miami metro area, consumer prices have surged by 36% since 2019. Additionally, home prices have skyrocketed by 79% since the pandemic began, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and S&P Case-Shiller, highlighted in a Bloomberg report released on Monday.

The total cost of housing in the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach metropolitan area is now about 5% higher than in New York and its suburbs, which includes New Jersey, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Southern Connecticut, where many hedge funds are located, is also now cheaper than Miami.

“It’s no longer just about the purchase price” for home shoppers in south Florida, Corcoran agent Michael Buttacavoli told Bloomberg. “It’s about the total cost to own.”

Six hurricanes in the last decade and regular floods have given Florida the highest home insurance premiums in the nation — an average of $8,292 last year, online marketplace Insurify estimates. That’s four times what New York State homeowners pay.

The Miami area’s property taxes, meanwhile, have jumped 62% since 2019, more than twice the national average, according to real estate data firm Attom.

The price surges follow a migration wave that transformed South Florida during the pandemic.

New York’s net outflow rose from about 74,000 tax returns in 2018–2019 to 142,000 in 2020–2021, while Florida’s net domestic migration peaked at 310,892 people in 2022 before slowing sharply in the following two years, according to IRS and Census data.

The rising costs are changing the calculus for many New Yorkers who once viewed Miami as a lower-cost alternative — including Ryan Cerny, a 29-year-old who relocated to South Florida just before the pandemic.

“You would see what real Florida prices were like before the COVID boom,” Cerny told The Post. “Everything just really stayed up after that, and it’s continued to go up.”

Cerny, who now lives with his girlfriend in Coconut Grove, said they pay about $3,700 a month for a 1,000 square foot townhouse. Friends renting studios and one-bedroom apartments closer to downtown Miami and Brickell routinely face rents approaching $3,000 a month, he said.

“Definitely going out less,” Cerny said. “Not going to the bars every weekend anymore. Maybe not eating out … during the week.” He added that grocery bills have also climbed sharply, calling Publix “ridiculously expensive now.”

But don’t expect the exodus of New Yorkers and Californians to stop – companies and wealthy businesses can likely foot the bill as they flee tax-and-spend blue states with lefty policies. Cerny said Miami still offers more value than Manhattan.

“At the end of the day, rent has gone up,” Cerny said. “It’s still not like Midtown Manhattan prices or anything.”

Despite the rising costs, Cerny said he has no immediate plans to leave South Florida.

“I still love living down here,” he said. “It’s still great quality of life.”

A man who eagerly secured what seemed to be a Connecticut real estate steal faced a shocking discovery: three dead bodies hidden within the property.

In June, Edward Marchion placed a bid on the home at a foreclosure auction, unaware of what lay inside due to the no-entry rule for prospective buyers.

Marchion’s offer of $525,000 appeared to be a sweet deal for a charming 2002-built home valued at $820,000 according to court records.

However, upon entering the Cape-Cod style residence within Burlington’s upscale community, about 20 miles west of Hartford, Marchion was met with an unexpected and grim scene, reported first by the Daily Mail. Two of the bodies have since been identified.

Connecticut State Police described the remains as ‘skeletal,’ identifying them as Sally Anne Cash, aged 54, and her son Brian Cash, who would have turned 23. Authorities are using DNA tests to confirm the identity of the third individual.

Sally Anne was the previous co-owner of the house. She had purchased the property in 2019 with her husband, Paul Cash. The couple had taken out a mortgage loan of nearly $400,000 to pay for the residence. 

It is unclear how the people found in the home died or how long their bodies were there, though police have said there is no evidence that a crime was committed and stressed that there was no threat to the wider public.

The Burlington Volunteer Fire Department was called in after the remains were found and tested the property for carbon monoxide, but said there was no indication of the deadly gas. 

The previous owners of the property stopped making their roughly $3,000 per month mortgage payments in late 2024, according to court records reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, and their bank filed a foreclosure complaint in August last year. 

The couple never replied to the foreclosure complaint and appeared to ignore a summons left at the address by a state marshal, court records show.

The Cashes did not appear in the case, and a motion seeking a default judgment was filed in October. A foreclosure judgment followed in March. 

The lawyer appointed to oversee the foreclosure auction, Christopher Thogmartin, told the Journal he assumed the property was abandoned because its lawn was so overgrown when he first visited in May.

That immediately struck him as odd, however, because the house sat on more than two acres of land and was worth at least twice the amount left on its mortgage. 

‘Why would anyone walk away from that?’ the lawyer said to the Journal. 

And when Thogmartin returned to the property a few weeks before last month’s auction, he noticed that two new signs had been mysteriously erected on the lawn. 

‘Keep out’ and ‘private property,’ the signs read. It remains unclear who placed them there, but homeowners and tenants are typically permitted to remain in residences through foreclosure proceedings and aren’t required to allow interior inspections. 

It was thus reasonable to assume that people were still living inside the house and had put up the signs, which meant Thogmartin did not have a right to order a locksmith and go into the property before the auction. 

When more than 20 bidders arrived at the auction on June 8, they walked around the exterior of the house to survey it as best they could. 

Marchion was declared the winner after six offers, and he paid an $82,000 deposit to secure the property.

He has asked the court to delay the closing until police complete their investigation. The court was scheduled to consider his request on Monday.