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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.

U.S. sailors and marines have arrived in the Middle East as Iranian officials report

air strikes, hits several areas overnight, and PR's Emily Fang reports Tehran is now threatening

to target American universities in the region, after a prominent Iranian campus was bombed over the weekend. The U.S. is triply, carrying 3,500 U.S. marines and sailors has arrived in the region though the U.S. military will not say where and how they might be deployed. Social media videos from across Iran showed strikes hitting all over the country, and Israel's

military said it had completed what it called a "wide-scale wave of strikes" targeting weapons, production, and storage sites in Iran. Iran claimed U.S. and Israeli strikes hit a Tehran University, and in a statement in Iranian

media, Iran's revolutionary guard corps threatened American campuses in the Middle East

and retaliation, Iran continues to fire drones and missiles at Middle Eastern countries with Kuwait saying it was intercepting missile and drone attacks early Sunday, Emily Fang and Pernus Veyn Turkey.

3 Lebanese journalists covering the invasion of their country south, having killed in its

rarely air strike, Israel is accusing one of them of being a Hezbollah militant but has not provided evidence, and PR's law and fair reports. 2 of the journalists were siblings, TV 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 Fryer and Pernus, Jezine in southern Lebanon. "Demonstrations against President Trump took place across the nation on Saturday as part of the no kings movement, Minnesota Public Radio's Faving, Goretska reports protests were held in St. Paul, the site of the flagship rally."

An overwhelming mass of people demonstrated against President Trump at the Minnesota State Capital.

Remis Jong, a third year old mental health practitioner from St. Paul, was among them.

He says while progress may be slow to calm, the turnout was a good sign.

"I'm not really expecting changes right away, like we'd hope, right?

It's being realistic. This is the start, and we're leading up to change." Jong says he wanted to be the voice for Minnesota in a phrase to step outside after the surge in federal immigration enforcement for NPR News and Favon Giles Gihanna, same Paul.

This is NPR News in Washington. A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is spreading now stretching more than 300 miles and reaching several protected areas. Officials believe this bill came from an offshore vessel, along with what they describe as "natural seabitch," fishing crew say it's disrupting one of their busiest seasons

of the year. Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and Rafael are considered the three great masters of the high renaissance.

Now, for the first time, a major retrospective of Rafael's work is in the United States,

and PR's Jennifer Venasco reports. Rafael has been called the Prince of Painters. His portraits of Madonna's and other religious figures are known for their harmony and balance. He became an extraordinary narrative painter, a storyteller who instantly knew how to capture

the plot of a story or a scene at the moment of its greatest drama. That's Carmen Bambac. She's the curator of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She's collected more than 170 of his drawings, paintings, prints, and tapestries, from museums and private collections around the world.

Many of them, here for the first time. The show will run until the end of June. Jennifer Venasco and PR News, New York. The Illinois Man's Basketball team is heading to the final four after a 71-59 win over Iowa Saturday night.

They'll take on the winner of the Duke Connecticut matchup next week. The win marks the school's sixth final four appearance, and its first since 2005. This is NPR News.

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