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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. Shandali's Duster, NPR News.

And Israeli Air Strike and Southern Lebanon Saturday killed three journalists who were

covering the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Hezbollah's Al Minar TV said correspondent Ali

Shoib was one of those who died. Israel's military said it had been targeting Shoib.

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 Kings protest on Saturday.

There were marches and speeches, including one by civil rights leader Leonate Tate.

Mel Bridges, with Member Station, WW1O, has our reports.

On November 4th, 1960, Leonate and three other six-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 to join me?

65 years later, Tate joined protesters in New Orleans mid-city as they marched against

President Trump's policies, including an immigration roundup in southeastern Louisiana.

Tate says, though the state and the country has made some social progress over the years,

it's also regressed a lot.

And now we're like, 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.

Services like Calche and Polymarket allow bets on future policies, military strikes and

election outcomes. And some lawmakers are growing increasingly worried 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-time bets on things like

the ouster of Iran's Supreme Leader and the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro led

to hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits. Both Calche and Polymarket say they already

ban insider trading, relying on their own surveillance tools to catch suspicious

bettors. Bobby Allen and NPR News. And you're listening to NPR News.

Hundreds of striking employees at the bath iron works in May 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 sea ice this winter.

As NPR's Rebecca Hirscher reports, there's 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 Hirscher and NPR News.

Tanya Latson scored 28 points and Raven Johnson added another 18 to help top-seated South Carolina

beat number 4 Oklahoma Saturday, 94-68. The game cocks now move into the elite eight of the

women's NCAA basketball tournament. In other games, number 2 Michigan beat

Louisville 71-52. Texas beat Kentucky's 76-54 and TCU beat Virginia's 79-69.

I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.

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