NPR News: 03-28-2026 7PM EDT

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 Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile, NPR Zaya Batrawi reports officials from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar met

separately with Vice President Vance this week.

The UAE in Qatar hosts thousands of U.S. troops, and their energy facilities have been

hit in Iranian counter-strikes 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 Strait.

The UAE says Emirati Minister Sultan El-Jabr, who heads Abu Dhabi's national oil company

Adnaq, met this week with Vance and Senator Lindsey Graham, who backs regime change in

Iran.

Qatar says its Prime Minister Muhammad El-Fani met 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.

Ayyab Al-Trawi and Pair News, Dubai.

Three Lebanese journalists covering the Israeli invasion of their country have been killed

in an 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-Lorenfraer has more.

Two of the journalists were siblings, TV correspondent Fatima Fattuni and her cameraman

brother Muhammad Fattuni.

Afterward, 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

a 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.

Lorenfraer and Pair News Jazeen in southern Lebanon.

Organizers of the No Kings rallies, as there were demonstrations from coast to coast

today.

From Member Station WVXU and Cincinnati, Bill Reinhardt has more on rallies there.

Liberty, Indiana, is 55 miles northwest of Cincinnati and has a population of almost

2000.

More than a dozen people gathered outside the Union County Courthouse, Starla Morgan

was among them.

She says President Trump campaigned 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.

Miniske resorts in the Western U.S. are closing early for the season, citing a warm, dry

winter.

Steena Sieg with Colorado Public Radio says some are 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 resorts still operating only of partial terrain open.

Some of these closures have come with little or no warning, with typical closing-day celebrations

cancelled.

It says resorts react to Colorado's warmest winter on record, with a snowpack at an

all-time low for this time of year.

Several resorts have decided to keep their prices steady for next winter, or even lower season

past costs, to entice skiers back after this truncated season.

Some of the state's smallest ski hills didn't open at all.

For NPR News, I'm Steena Sieg in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Nestle says more than 413,000 Kit Kat candy bars were stolen while in root from Italy to

Poland.

The Swiss food giants as the candy and the truck are still missing, but the thieves 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 in Iran and rising oil prices.

Both the Dow and the Nasdaq 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.

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