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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 folks could possibly be displaced.

• 🎧 NPR’s Jane Arraf tells Up First that, for many individuals in Beirut, it’s laborious to grasp that Nasrallah is gone. Right now, there’s 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 tackle later in the present day. 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 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 hundreds 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 because 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 annoyed 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 good to know forward of the talk.

• 🎧 NPR’s Quil Lawrence says Walz served 24 years and deployed a 12 months 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 laborious, although, as former President Donald Trump averted serving in Vietnam with 5 deferments and has a monitor file of offending veterans. Different variations are the campaigns’ approaches to veteran care, because the Trump administration beforehand pushed by means of the VA Mission Act, which expanded personal medical care choices for veterans. Lawrence says it’s protected to imagine Harris-Walz would push again towards extra VA-provided care.

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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 one of the crucial 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 may 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 last album.

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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 pals and I had simply seen a present by guitarist Barbara Lynn and puzzled aloud why she’d been largely written out of the histories of early 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 stored speaking after that night time, rising an concept that grew to become 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 ladies as a novelty, because the “next big thing” or an “alternative.” 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 aspect be aware in a man-made historical past. It’s attainable to know the entire of music by means of 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 superb is that what we talked about so way back has turn out to be self-evident – in the present day, 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 Picture/Wealthy Pedroncelli, File)

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1. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed a invoice yesterday that may have held tech firms legally chargeable for harms attributable to AI and required them to construct in a “kill switch” if methods went rogue.
2. 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.
3. 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 sophisticated as a decide dominated that a web based public sale for the ball can happen, even amid an ongoing lawsuit.

This text was edited by Obed Manuel.