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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 collection 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 onerous to grasp that Nasrallah is gone. Right now, there may be much less grief being proven and extra defiance. Individuals are saying regardless of him being gone the struggle will proceed as waves of persons are being displaced. Hezbollah’s second in command will give an handle later right now. Nasrallah is anticipated to be buried later this week.
- ➡️ Right here’s a more in-depth 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 a whole bunch 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 on 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 as a consequence 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 prime earlier than. They’re now pissed off as a result of the timeline for when exterior 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 night time. Ohio Sen. JD Vance is a Marine Corps veteran and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is a Nationwide Guard veteran. Right here’s what you’ll want to know forward of the controversy.
- 🎧 NPR’s Quil Lawrence says Walz served 24 years and deployed a yr to Europe in help of the conflict in Afghanistan, however Vance has been attacking him over a few misstatements. It’s tough for Vance to push too onerous, although, as former President Donald Trump prevented 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 by the VA Mission Act, which expanded non-public medical care choices for veterans. Lawrence says it’s protected to imagine Harris-Walz would push again towards extra VA-provided care.
Right now’s pay attention
Following her demise, SOPHIE’s household says she left behind a set of a whole bunch 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 one of the vital 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 undertaking, she died on the age of 34 in 2021. She left behind a whole bunch 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
Nearly a decade in the past, I had a dialog that modified the course of my life. Some ladies mates and I had simply seen a present by guitarist Barbara Lynn and puzzled aloud why she’d been principally written out of the histories of early Nineteen Sixties rock music. Quickly we have been spinning out different names of artists we cherished – Rickie Lee Jones! Roberta Flack! – who by no means obtained the highly effective consideration males simply earned. We saved speaking after that night time, rising an concept that grew to become NPR Music’s undertaking to reset the musical canon: Turning the Tables.
From the beginning, Turning the Tables sought to be extra than simply one other remedy of ladies as a novelty, because the “subsequent large factor” or an “different.” We needed to see what would occur if we targeted solely on ladies, trans, and nonbinary artists. Turning the Tables made the case that ladies aren’t only a aspect notice in a man-made historical past. It’s doable to know the entire of music by ladies’s work.
Now there’s a brand new e book 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 collection 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 develop into self-evident – right now, ladies dominate the pop scene and so many histories are being revised. We’re proud that our work has contributed to what looks like a sea change, and that this e book 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 Picture/Wealthy Pedroncelli, File)
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- Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed a invoice yesterday that may have held tech firms legally accountable for harms brought on by AI and required them to construct in a “kill swap” if methods 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 assert the milestone baseball. The state of affairs has now develop into much more sophisticated 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.