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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The Pentagon is moving a Patriot Air

Defense missile system from Israel to Ukraine. That's according to a U.S. official.

And Western allies are working to provide another Patriot system to Ukraine. That's according to a U.S. official. And Western allies are working to provide

another Patriot system to Ukraine, either from Greece or Germany, another source familiar with the

move told NPR. The systems would bolster Ukraine in its war with Russia. Both sources were granted

anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.

This comes after the U.S. and Ukraine signed a deal on rare earth minerals.

A seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court still hasn't been called almost six months after the November election.

Steve Harrison of Member Station WFAE has more.

North Carolina's Republican-controlled state Supreme Court last month opened the door for Jefferson

Griffin to win the race against Allison Riggs by requiring thousands of overseas and military voters

in a handful of Democratic-leaning counties to provide photo ID or have their ballots thrown out.

A federal court has stopped that ID requirement for now, and the election dispute is now in

the hands of a U.S. District Court judge. Meanwhile, Republicans took control of the State Board

of Elections after a court okay to law that shifted appointment power

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