Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Israel's military says it has launched airstrikes on tire, the second biggest city in Southern
Lebanon.
“It said it was targeting the Iranian-backed militia, his bola, and had worn tens of thousands”
of residents to flee the city before the bombing began. NPR's Jenerav has the tales from the ground. And we're on a main highway from the south, and it's just choked with vehicles, cars, trucks, buses, minivans, some people on motorcycles. A lot of people have packed everything they can into these cars, but one of the women we
just spoke with said they left with foods still on the table. This is a major holiday, one of the biggest holidays in the Muslim calendar, but people are fleeing for their lives, not just the city of Tire, but other cities in the south as well. And most of these people we talk to say, they don't know where they'll go.
Jenerav, NPR News, inside in Lebanon.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is now the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. He defeated longtime incumbent Senator John Corden in the Republican runoff. The Texas Newsroom's blaze Gany has elatist. Before the endorsement from President Trump came in last week, Paxton had already been launching
“a tax toward his Democratic opponent, Texas State Representative James Tolerico, while”
polls show the race will be closed. Paxton says he believes Texans won't let them down. Texas will be the radical left's number one priority, but there's one thing I know about Texans. It's that we're not going to let them take it. Tolerico has already come out with an ad against Paxton, saying the race is now the
people versus Paxton, who he calls the most corrupt politician in America.
I'm Blaze Gany in Austin.
Alabama's asking the Supreme Court to allow to use a congressional map of favors or publicans in this year's midterms. The state's GOP leadership has filed an emergency appeal after a court found that a Republican back redistricting plan intentionally discriminated against black people. More people in the U.S. are going hungry now than they did during the depths of a pandemic.
The New York Fed periodically asked Americans if they're having to skip meals, rely on food donations or receiving federal assistance to buy groceries.
“Results from the most recent survey show higher levels of food insecurity now than during”
the summer of 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic triggered double digit unemployment. In February, one out of ten families missed meals for lack of food, but hunger was twice as common among families earning less than $50,000 a year. The results highlight what observers have called the K-shaped economy with rich household striving while poor families struggle.
The agriculture department, which oversees the food assistance program, halted its own research on food insecurity last year. Scott Horsley and Pianu is Washington. This is NPR. Emergency personnel responding to the side of yesterday's tank implosion at a Washington State
paper mill, have at least two major tasks ahead of them today. Keep the collapse tank at long views NPR done away packaging from leaking more of a dangerous chemical mixture, and then locate nine workers who have not been seen since the tank implosion killed at least one person and injured several others, including a responding firefighter.
Authorities say they do not expect to find any more survivors. They also say there was no threat to public health. NASA is unveiling plans for a more permanent presence on the Moon's surface, and Piers William Jones explains. The newly released rendering some NASA share astronauts, Moon Buggies, and hopping drones
spread across the Moon's surface. At an event in Washington to unveil the next stage of the Artemis program, Dr. Laurie Glaze, who leads NASA's exploration missions, says they're eyeing a more sustained lunar presence. Moon Base, Artemis astronauts will stay longer, explore farther, and conduct the kinds of
science that advances exploration itself. It's a multi-decade effort, and NASA says the aim is to develop a lunar habitat at the Moon's South Pole by 2032. His Carlos Garcia Galland, who's heading up the mission, then will be able to say, "Hey, we're permanently here, and we're not giving it up."
The hope is that this Moon Base will provide a hub for astronauts to work alongside robots to study the Moon, and also help prepare for future Mars missions. William Jones and PR News I'm Lakshby saying, "NPR News." New shows, new music, new movies, keeping up with pop culture sometimes feels like a full-time
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