Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
U.S. sailors and Marines are now in the Middle East, 10 P.S. Shondaleastuster reports.
“U.S. Central Command said Saturday in a social media post that about 3,500 sailors”
and Marines arrived in a Middle East aboard the U.S.S. Tripoli. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in Okinawa, Japan, arrived in a Middle East on Friday the post said. The unit also has transport and strike fighter aircraft, as well as amphibious assault and tactical assets.
U.S. Central Command did not say would mission the unit will be carrying out. At least 2,000 additional soldiers have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East, where the U.S. already has 40,000 to 50,000 troops. Shondaleast-Duster and PR News. And Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon Saturday killed 3 journalists who were covering
the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. As Almanar TV said correspondent Ali Shoeib was one of those who died. Israel's military said it had been targeting Shoeib.
“They accused him of being a Hezbollah intelligence operative but offered no evidence to support”
that claim. In New Orleans, thousands of people attended a no-king's protest on Saturday. There were marches and speeches, including one by civil rights leader Leona Tate. Mel Bridges with Member Station, WWNO, has our reports. On November 4, 1960 Leona Tate and three other 6-year-old Black girls were escorted by federal
marshals into New Orleans public schools as the first black students to integrate public schools.
"I am 71 years old and I'm still fighting. I'm still showing up. I'm still a resistance. So what are you going to do with the joining?" 65 years later, Tate joined protesters in New Orleans mid-city as they marched against
President Trump's policies, including an immigration round-up in South Eastern Louisiana. Tate says, though, the state and the country has made some social progress over the years, it's also regressed. A lot.
“"We're back in the 50s somewhere, you know, and I hate to see that for the children today."”
For NPR News, I'm Mel Bridges in New Orleans.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order banning state officials from betting on prediction markets within cider information, NPR's Bobby Allen has more. This is like calcium and polymarket, allow bets on future policies, military strikes, and election outcomes. And some lawmakers are growing increasingly worry that the betting apps can be exploited
by people who have access to government and military secrets. Newsom's order prevents appointees of the governor from using non-public information to personally profit on prediction markets. In recent months, well-timed bets on things like the ouster of Iran Supreme Leader, and the arrest of Venezuela and Leader Nicolas Maduro led 200s of thousands of dollars in profits.
With calcium, polymarket say they already banned insider trading, relying on their own surveillance tools to catch suspicious betters, Bobby Allen and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News. Hundreds of striking employees at the Bath ironworks and Maine are going back to work. The shipyard says employees of one of the Navy's biggest shipbuilding contractors ratified
a new four-year deal Saturday, ending a week-long strike. The shipyard had negotiated with the union for weeks before that strike began. The Arctic has set a new record for a sea ice this winter, because NPR's Rebecca Hershey reports there is "less sea ice than ever," a huge swath of the Arctic Ocean freezes in the winter each year.
Last year, there was less ice than ever recorded going back to 1979. That's according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, and this year has set a new record again, with even less ice than last year, by a slim margin, according to newly released data. Sea ice is disappearing in the Arctic because humans are warming up the planet by burning
oil, gas, and coal. Sea ice loss affects weather around the world. It also leaves coastal communities in the Arctic more vulnerable to storms, which in recent years has caused catastrophic flooding in parts of Alaska. Rebecca Hershey and Pierre News.
Tonya Latsons scored 28 points in Raven Johnson added another 18 to help top-seated South Carolina beat number four Oklahoma Saturday, 94-to-68. The game cocks now move into the lead eight of the Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament. Another game's number two Michigan beat, Louisville, 71-to-52, Texas B. Kentucky, 76-to-54, and T.C.A.U. beat Virginia, 79-to-69.
I'm Dale Wilman and P.R. News.
