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Israel has intensified attacks in southern Lebanon, despite a U.S. brokered ceasefire, aimed
“at ending fighting with the militant group as below.”
Lebanon says at least 18 people have been killed since yesterday, including two paramedics, as in Paris, J.N.A. Raff reports. Lebanese state media and Lebanon's health ministry says Israel bombed a residential building in the town of Cuffer, Ramon, early Monday, killing nine people, including two children and a paramedic.
The health ministry said a separate strike on a vehicle in the town killed a second paramedic.
Israel has said it is targeting his bull on in recent attacks since 8 Lebanon. The Iran backed Lebanese militia group has been fighting to push back Israeli forces. On Sunday, Israeli air strikes destroyed a hospital in southern Lebanon. Israel said without providing proof that his bull of fighters were operating inside. Lebanon's president condemned the hospital attack as a dangerous escalation.
J.N.A. Raff NPR News Bay Route. The first set of voter registration deadlines for the midterm election is coming up in parts
“of the country as impairs Hansi Loh Wang for reports.”
There are only weeks left before the window closes for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterm general election in South Carolina. October 2nd is the state's in-person deadline, although Ellswell voters have a few more
days to sign up online where to stop by a post office and get a mailing application
postmarked. For the U.S. version islands, in-person voter registration ends October 3rd, followed by the online deadline a day later. And in Alaska and Rhode Island, the last day to register is October 4th. Voting season for the general election is already underway in North Carolina, but New Hampshire
is still set to hold one of this year's last state-by-primaries on Tuesday. Ellswell voters in that state can still sign up to vote on Tuesday's primary day at their polling place. Hansi Loh Wang and Phearnus. A century ago, Labor unions fought for eight-hour days and 40-hour work weeks.
Today, they find themselves confronting AI. As impairs Andrea Xu reports, for a movement made up of all kinds of workers, it's complicated. With AI on the rise, Labor leaders have been calling for guardrails. They want more transparency into how companies are using AI, and more say in what that's going to mean for workers.
At the same time, some building trades unions have welcomed the growth of AI, and specifically the boom and data centers. Dawn Sleiman is with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, local 26. He says his members are flush with work. "We haven't seen this kind of growth for skilled tradespeople in generations."
The union has called on its members to ask their elected officials to oppose any more atoriums on data centers. Local leaders have increasingly issued pauses on new construction, as community concerns have soared, Andrea Xu and Phearnus. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
High school and college seniors across the country say they're struggling with their mental health, that's according to a new poll of over 1,000 high school and college seniors by the research firm College Pauls. And his MPR's Retro Chatterjee reports more high school seniors, report feeling stressed and anxious compared to seniors in college.
67% of high school students set to go to college in the fall of 2027, say they are feeling stressed, compared to only 59% of college seniors who say the same. More than half of high school seniors say they feel emotionally exhausted and overwhelmed, nearly 38% say they are lonely. Both groups of survey respondents say their use of artificial intelligence tools has increased
over the past year. A quarter of the teen respondents say they use AI to discuss relationship or emotional issues, twice as many as college seniors who do the same. The survey also revealed uncertainty about the future and distrust in institutions in the federal government and big tech companies to act in their best interest.
Retro Chatterjee and peer news is trade talks between the U.S. and Canada's stall Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products start tomorrow, absent last minute negotiations.
This after President Trump imposed an additional 50% tariffs on some $20 billion worth of Canadian
products, Carney says the tariffs will target U.S. sectors including steel, dairy, agricultural equipment and paper. Trump last week signed an executive order to rename part of Lake Ontario as Lake America. You're listening to NPR News. You count on sunscreen to protect your skin, but that S.P.F. rating on the bottle might not
be exactly as advertised. So you can measure an S.P.F. 50 at one lab at an S.P.F. 30 at another.
“On the Sunday story, is it time to update sunscreen guidance?”
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