"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The Pentagon says 3,500 Marines and sailors have arrived in the Middle East on board
“the USS Tripoli as President Trump presses Iran to open the straight-up or moves.”
Meanwhile, in Piersia, Batrawi reports officials from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar met separately with Vice President Fance this week. The UAE and Qatar host thousands of U.S. troops and their energy facilities have been hit in Iranian counterstrikes in the war. The UAE says a ceasefire with Iran isn't enough, it's pushing for a deal that addresses
Iran's nuclear enrichment, its drones and missiles, and its control of the straight. The UAE says Emirati Minister Sultan El-Jabber, who heads Abu Dhabi's national oil company ad-nok, met this week with Vance and Senator Lindsey Graham, who backs regime change in Iran. Qatar says its prime minister Muhammad al-Fanim at Vance Friday. Qatar has taken a more conciliatory tone, it says Iran's attacks on its sovereignty
are unacceptable but that the war must end through diplomatic means. I Abatrawi and Pyrnus, Dubai. Three Lebanese journalists covering the Israeli invasion of their country have been killed and in Israeli air strike.
“Israel accuses one of them of being a Hezbollah militant, operating under the guise of”
a journalist, but it hasn't provided evidence, and Piers' law and frayer has more. Two of the journalists were siblings, T.B. correspondent Fatuni and her cameraman brother Muhammad Fatuni, after where their father appeared on TV, saying he was proud of his children. The journalist Israel says it targeted was Ali Shahib, a veteran TV correspondent and household
name in Lebanon, after killing him Israel's military issued a statement accusing him of exposing the locations of Israeli troops, all three had been covering Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon. Lebanese officials call the attack a flagrant violation of international law and say they're complaining to the UN Security Council, hundreds of fellow journalists marched at a protest
vigil in Lebanon's capital, Lauren Freyer and Pyrnus, Jezine in southern Lebanon. Organizers of the No King's rallies, says there are were demonstrations from coast to coast today, from a member stationed WVXU in Cincinnati, Bill Reinhardt has more on rallies there.
“Liberty, Indiana is 55 miles northwest of Cincinnati and has a population of almost 2,000.”
More than a dozen people gathered outside the Union County Courthouse, Starlum Morgan was among them. She says President Trump campaign on staying out of other countries and lower prices. My brothers still farm our family farm, and I don't know how they're going to make it with the price of fertilizer and gas and fuel.
I don't know what's going to happen, a lot of these small farms here are just family owned. Morgan says when they held a similar demonstration in Liberty last October, there was a lot of negativity, this time she says there was more support. For NPR News, I'm Bill Reinhardt in Cincinnati. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Many ski resorts in the western U.S. are closing early for the season, citing a warm dry winter. Steena Sig with Colorado Public Radio says summer closing weeks ahead of schedule hit hard by the weather.
By the end of this weekend, more than a third of Colorado's ski areas will be closed,
and the resort's still operating only of partial terrain open. Some of these closures have come with little or no warning, with typical closing day celebrations canceled. It says Resorts react to Colorado's warmest winter on record, with a snowpag at an all-time low for this time of year.
Several resorts have decided to keep their prices steady for next winter. Even lower season pass costs to entice skiers back after this truncated season. Some of the state's smallest ski hills didn't open at all. Frimp here news, I'm Steena Sig, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Nestle says more than 413,000 kit-cat candy bars were stolen while en route from Italy to Poland.
The Swiss food giants as the candy and the truck are still missing, but the thieves so won't get far if they try to sell it, Nestle says all of the products can be traced using the unique batch code that's been assigned to individual bars. Wall Street was lower yesterday, ending another volatile week as investors processed the ongoing war on Iran and rising oil prices.
Both the down and Azac fell into correction territory, which means they're down at least 10% from recent highs, and the benchmark S&P 500 posted its fifth straight losing week. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington Newsmakers is NPR's newest podcast where you can find NPR's biggest interviews. We begin with Westmore, a rising star in the Democratic Party.
You're never going to win long-term on anger.
Westmore, Maryland, on the midterms and beyond, you got to be able to show what an alternative looks like. That's this week on NPR's Newsmakers.
