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In the present day’s high tales
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 dying toll has surpassed a thousand, and the Lebanese prime minister has warned that 1,000,000 individuals could possibly 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 understand that Nasrallah is gone. In the present day, there’s much less grief being proven and extra defiance. Persons are saying regardless of him being gone the battle will proceed as waves of persons are being displaced. Hezbollah’s second in command will give an deal with later immediately. Nasrallah is anticipated 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 attributable to 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 induced flooding and mudslides, resulting in roads being washed out and tens of 1000’s being left with out energy or clear ingesting water. Gerald Albert III of NPR Community station Blue Ridge Public Radio says he was trapped for a few days attributable to flooded roads whereas reporting in Brevard, simply south of Asheville, when the storm hit. Regardless of the forecasted flooding, many residents had 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 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 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 it’s worthwhile to know forward of the controversy.
- 🎧 NPR’s Quil Lawrence says Walz served 24 years and deployed a yr to Europe in assist 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 prevented serving in Vietnam with 5 deferments and has a observe report 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 protected to imagine Harris-Walz would push again towards extra VA-provided care.
In the present day’s pay attention
Following her dying, SOPHIE’s household says she left behind a group 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 probably the most 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 a whole bunch of unreleased songs and an incomplete album. Now her household is releasing her last 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 girls associates and I had simply seen a present by guitarist Barbara Lynn and questioned aloud why she’d been largely written out of the histories of early Sixties rock music. Quickly we had been spinning out different names of artists we beloved – Rickie Lee Jones! Roberta Flack! – who by no means acquired the highly effective consideration males simply earned. We stored speaking after that night time, 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 remedy of ladies as a novelty, because the “subsequent massive factor” or an “different.” We wished to see what would occur if we targeted solely on girls, trans, and nonbinary artists. Turning the Tables made the case that girls aren’t only a aspect word in a man-made historical past. It’s attainable to grasp the entire of music via girls’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 girls musicians. Within the new canon it presents, girls’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 – immediately, girls 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 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 might 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 might have held tech firms legally responsible for harms attributable to AI and required them to construct in a “kill change” 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 battle to say the milestone baseball. The state of affairs has now turn out to be much more sophisticated as a decide dominated that a web based public sale for the ball can happen, even amid an ongoing lawsuit.
This article was edited by Obed Manuel.