Historic flooding strands a whole lot in North Carolina. And, Hezbollah chief mourned

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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 dying toll has surpassed a thousand, and the Lebanese prime minister has warned that one million individuals might be displaced.

• 🎧 NPR’s Jane Arraf tells Up First that, for many individuals in Beirut, it’s laborious to understand that Nasrallah is gone. Right now, there may be 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 handle later right now. 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 a whole lot of individuals stranded, particularly within the rural, mountainous areas. Gov. Roy Cooper described the harm as “widespread and catastrophic.” Authorities have confirmed 30 deaths in only one county, however many extra are nonetheless unaccounted for.

• 🎧 Helene has precipitated 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 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 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 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 difficult for Vance to push too laborious, although, as former President Donald Trump averted 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 by 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.

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Following her dying, SOPHIE’s household says she left behind a group of a whole lot 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 may launch her subsequent extremely anticipated music mission, she died on the age of 34 in 2021. She left behind a whole lot 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 mates 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 Nineteen 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 saved 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 remedy of ladies as a novelty, because the “next big thing” or an “alternative.” We needed to see what would occur if we centered solely on ladies, trans, and nonbinary artists. Turning the Tables made the case that ladies aren’t only a facet word in a man-made historical past. It’s attainable to grasp the entire of music by 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 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 turn 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 guide exists as a doc and a celebration.

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FILE — California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB1046, a hotly contested measure that might have been the nation’s strictest AI security regulation. (AP Picture/Wealthy Pedroncelli, File)

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1. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed a invoice yesterday that might have held tech corporations legally responsible for harms brought on by 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 assert the milestone baseball. The scenario has now turn into 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.