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Lebanon has declared three days of mourning following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, who led the Lebanese militant and political group Hezbollah for the previous 32 years. He was killed in a sequence of Israeli airstrikes that destroyed a metropolis block in Beirut. The Iran-backed group has been severely affected by his killing and the lack of different senior leaders, whereas Israeli airstrikes persist. The demise toll has surpassed a thousand, and the Lebanese prime minister has warned that 1,000,000 individuals might be displaced.
A portrait of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah sits amid destruction in a space focused in a single day by Israeli airstrikes in Saksakiyeh on Sep. 26, 2024.
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- 🎧 NPR’s Jane Arraf tells Up First that, for many individuals in Beirut, it’s arduous to grasp that Nasrallah is gone. As we speak, there’s much less grief being proven and extra defiance. Persons are saying regardless of him being gone the struggle will proceed as waves of individuals are being displaced. Hezbollah’s second in command will give an deal with later at present. Nasrallah is predicted to be buried later this week.
- ➡️ Right here’s a better look at how the battle escalated over a 12-day span.
In western North Carolina, the aftermath of the devastating flooding brought on by Tropical Storm Helene has left tons of of individuals stranded, particularly within the rural, mountainous areas. Gov. Roy Cooper described the injury as “widespread and catastrophic.” Authorities have confirmed 30 deaths in only one county, however many extra are nonetheless unaccounted for.
- 🎧 Helene has brought about flooding and mudslides, resulting in roads being washed out and tens of 1000’s being left with out energy or clear consuming water. Gerald Albert III of NPR Community station Blue Ridge Public Radio says he was trapped for a few days on account of flooded roads whereas reporting in Brevard, simply south of Asheville, when the storm hit. Regardless of the forecasted flooding, many residents have been caught off guard, as they hadn’t seen it flood that top earlier than. They’re now pissed off as a result of the timeline for when outdoors assist and provides will arrive is unclear.
For the primary time in a long time, each vice presidential nominees are veterans. They’ll go head-to-head in a debate Tuesday evening. Ohio Sen. JD Vance is a Marine Corps veteran and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is a Nationwide Guard veteran. Right here’s what you want to know forward of the controversy.
- 🎧 NPR’s Quil Lawrence says Walz served 24 years and deployed a 12 months to Europe in help of the warfare in Afghanistan, however Vance has been attacking him over a few misstatements. It’s tough for Vance to push too arduous, although, as former President Donald Trump averted serving in Vietnam with 5 deferments and has a observe document of offending veterans. Different variations are the campaigns’ approaches to veteran care, because the Trump administration beforehand pushed via the VA Mission Act, which expanded non-public medical care choices for veterans. Lawrence says it’s secure to imagine Harris-Walz would push again towards extra VA-provided care.
As we speak’s pay attention
Following her demise, SOPHIE’s household says she left behind a group of tons of of unreleased songs, in addition to a follow-up album to her debut. However the album wasn’t completed.
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All through the 2010s, SOPHIE made a reputation for herself as some of the cutting-edge producers in pop music. She labored with artists like Madonna and Vince Staples. In 2018, her public profile rose when she launched her personal album, which was nominated for a Grammy. However earlier than she might launch her subsequent extremely anticipated music mission, she died on the age of 34 in 2021. She left behind tons of of unreleased songs and an incomplete album. Now her household is releasing her closing album.
Behind the story
by Ann Powers, NPR music critic and correspondent
Virtually a decade in the past, I had a dialog that modified the course of my life. Some ladies buddies and I had simply seen a present by guitarist Barbara Lynn and questioned aloud why she’d been principally written out of the histories of early Sixties rock music. Quickly we have been spinning out different names of artists we beloved – Rickie Lee Jones! Roberta Flack! – who by no means obtained the highly effective consideration males simply earned. We stored speaking after that evening, rising an concept that turned NPR Music’s mission to reset the musical canon: Turning the Tables.
From the beginning, Turning the Tables sought to be extra than simply one other therapy of girls as a novelty, because the “subsequent huge factor” or an “various.” We needed to see what would occur if we targeted solely on ladies, trans, and nonbinary artists. Turning the Tables made the case that girls aren’t only a facet word in a man-made historical past. It’s doable to grasp the entire of music via ladies’s work.
Now there’s a brand new guide to placed on the shelf, titled How Girls Made Music: A Revolutionary Historical past. Edited by longtime contributor Alison Fensterstock, it collects the cream of the Turning the Tables sequence plus gems from the NPR archives spanning 50 years of interviews with ladies musicians. Within the new canon it presents, ladies’s expertise and creativity resonates throughout generations. What’s wonderful is that what we talked about so way back has turn out to be self-evident – at present, ladies dominate the pop scene and so many histories are being revised. We’re proud that our work has contributed to what seems like a sea change, and that this guide exists as a doc and a celebration.
Earlier than you go
FILE — California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB1046, a hotly contested measure that may have been the nation’s strictest AI security legislation. (AP Photograph/Wealthy Pedroncelli, File)
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- Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed a invoice yesterday that may have held tech corporations legally answerable for harms brought on by AI and required them to construct in a “kill swap” if programs went rogue.
- Musician and movie star Kris Kristofferson, who starred in 1976’s A Star Is Born, reverse Barbra Streisand, died on Saturday. He was age 88.
- MLB star Shohei Ohtani hit his fiftieth homerun final week, inflicting followers within the stands to struggle to say the milestone baseball. The scenario has now turn out to be much more difficult as a choose dominated that an internet public sale for the ball can happen, even amid an ongoing lawsuit.
This article was edited by Obed Manuel.
