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One other lethal wave of exploding communication units — this time walkie-talkies — struck Lebanon yesterday, leaving a minimum of 20 useless and a whole lot extra wounded, in keeping with Lebanese Well being officers. The new explosions occurred barely 24 hours after pagers exploded, killing 12 folks and injuring virtually 3,000. In some circumstances, the walkie-talkies blew up throughout funerals for folks killed throughout the pager explosions. Israel hasn’t publicly taken duty for this week’s assaults on Hezbollah, however a U.S. official tells NPR that Israel notified Washington it carried out Tuesday’s assaults.
An ambulance believed to be carrying wounded folks, after a number of explosions had been heard throughout the funeral of 4 Hezbollah fighters who had been killed Tuesday after their handheld pagers exploded, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday.
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- 🎧 NPR’s Jane Arraf heard one of many newest explosions yesterday whereas she was attending a Hezbollah funeral with producer Jawad Rizkhallah. She tells Up First that because the speaker started to name the names of the useless and the band started to play, a bang was heard, and close by somebody shouted that an individual’s hand was blown off. Hezbollah has vowed revenge. The group’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, is giving an handle this night. Persons are unsettled within the space. They’re afraid of digital units, because it’s unknown when one thing would possibly explode.
- 🎧 What is going on with the exploding communication units is one thing that has by no means been seen earlier than, NPR’s Greg Myre says. Many analysts say there is no such thing as a army answer and there should be a political one. Hezbollah has been signaling for the previous yr that it doesn’t desire a full-scale battle. Because it considers a counter-strike, there is a risk Hezbollah might sustain the continuing trade of cross-border hearth, however select to not ramp up the combating.
The Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters will not be endorsing a candidate for president, setting them aside from different labor unions which have been lively within the yr’s elections. It breaks with many years of Teamsters precedent and comes as a blow to Vice President Harris, who met with union management for a roundtable dialogue Monday. The union launched an inner ballot yesterday that confirmed practically 60% of members needed former President Donald Trump again within the White Home. Trump later boasted that he received the Teamsters’ endorsement. Harris has received the help of many labor teams, together with the United Auto Employees, the AFL-CIO, the Nationwide Training Affiliation and American Federation of Academics, and the Culinary Union in Nevada.
- 🎧 NPR’s Don Gonyea says the choice is uncommon, as Teamsters have backed each Democratic nominee since Invoice Clinton, together with President Biden. The union’s president, Sean O’Brien, praised Trump in a pro-union speech on the Republican Nationwide Conference in July. The choice wasn’t solely made primarily based on the polling. Harris doesn’t have an extended historical past with the union like Biden does, although she’s stated she’ll proceed his pro-labor insurance policies.
Black women face extra self-discipline and extreme punishment, like expulsion, in public colleges than women of different racial backgrounds, in keeping with a report shared solely with NPR by the Authorities Accountability Workplace. The report took practically a year-and-a-half to finish and gives a first-of-its-kind snapshot of the disciplinary disparities that Black women face throughout the U.S. inside public college programs. A number of the components that tied into the elevated self-discipline embrace college poverty ranges, the proportion of ladies dealing with disabilities, the variety of new academics and the presence of a college useful resource officer. The report is ready for launch by the congressional watchdog immediately, right here’s a breakdown of what it reveals.
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Even in case you use a bank card on a regular basis, it may be obscure the ins and outs of how they work.
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Falling behind on bank card payments is extra frequent than you would possibly suppose, particularly when the ins and outs of how they work will be complicated. In keeping with the Federal Reserve Financial institution of New York, folks below the age of 30 and lower-income households within the U.S. are the more than likely to be maxed out on their credit score restrict. This places them at a better danger of lacking a fee. John Kiernan, managing editor on the private finance web site WalletHub, says there are methods to maintain your payments below management.
- 💳 Keep away from expensive curiosity prices by paying your full assertion steadiness each month. The day a fee is missed, curiosity and late charges begin including on to the steadiness.
- 💳 Attempt to not lose your grace interval — the interest-free interval many corporations provide between once you purchase one thing and the bank card fee is due. As soon as it goes away you’ll begin accruing curiosity day-after-day on every part you purchase going ahead.
- 💳 Can’t pay the total steadiness? Make a minimal fee, the smallest quantity required to pay every month to maintain your account in good standing.
- 💳 Create a method to repay the debt. There are free on-line calculators that can assist you do it.
Right here’s the total record of tricks to assist keep out of debt.
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The Scranton Military Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pa., on Aug. 27.
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Morning Version visited the Scranton Military Ammunition Plant to get an inside take a look at how its protection tools manufacturing contributes to northeastern Pennsylvania’s economic system. The plant’s growth of artillery rounds has ramped up since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Scranton, as soon as a hub for coal mining and small American manufacturing, now depends on protection installations for good, high-paying jobs. Maintaining with Ukraine’s wants is not straightforward.
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A tug boat travels towards the Port of Baltimore as salvage crews proceed to wash up wreckage from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge within the Patapsco River on June 11 in Baltimore. Town’s Fort McHenry Federal Channel opened for transport visitors months after the cargo ship Dali collided with the bridge, inflicting it to break down.
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- The Justice Division is suing the proprietor and operator of the container ship Dali for greater than $100 million, alleging that negligence and cost-cutting selections led to the ship ramming into and destroying Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March.
- In Indian-controlled Kashmir, residents are voting in native elections for the primary time in a decade. Some solid their ballots hoping it’ll result in the restoration of the territory’s statehood, which ended when it turned federally ruled in 2019.
- Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” has entered an unique membership: It’s considered one of 45 songs because the institution of Billboard’s Scorching 100 in 1958 to prime the chart for a minimum of 10 weeks.
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
