Exploding Pagers, Fed Rate Cut Coming & Instagram Restricts Teens - Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
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The news to know for Wednesday, September 18, 2024!
What to know about an unprecedented attack in the Middle East that caused hundreds of pagers to explode, injuring thousands of people.
Also, the political battle over IVF and other fertility treatments is back in the spotlight in the U.S.
Plus, why music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs has now been arrested and charged, the impact of the Fed's likely decision today to cut interest rates for the first time in years, and major changes are coming to Instagram that will limit how teenagers use the app...
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, September 18th. |
| 0:02.2 | What to know about an unprecedented attack in the Middle East |
| 0:05.2 | that caused hundreds of pagers to explode at the same time |
| 0:08.7 | injuring thousands of people. |
| 0:10.4 | Also, the political battle over IVF and other fertility treatments is back in the spotlight here in the U.S. |
| 0:16.0 | Plus why music mogul Sean Diddy Combs has now been arrested and charged. |
| 0:20.0 | The impact of the Fed's likely decision today to cut interest rates for the first time in years. |
| 0:26.0 | And major changes are coming to Instagram that will limit how teenagers can use the app. |
| 0:30.0 | Those stories and even more news to know next. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:37.0 | All the day's news in around 10 minutes. |
| 0:39.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. thanks so much for being here. You're ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:47.0 | There's more concern now about a wider war in the Middle East after hundreds of handheld pagers exploded yesterday |
| 0:56.9 | pretty much at the same time across Lebanon and parts of Syria |
| 1:00.6 | reportedly killing at least 11 people and injuring thousands more. |
| 1:04.6 | They were apparently pagers used by Hezbollah operatives and were a key communication tool |
| 1:09.9 | since the group's leader ordered them to stop using cell phones that could be tracked by Israeli intelligence. |
| 1:15.6 | Hezbollah and the Lebanese government now blame Israel for this unprecedented attack, |
| 1:20.0 | and Hezbollah threatened to retaliate. |
| 1:22.3 | Israeli officials say they're aware this could lead to an escalation and are on high alert, |
| 1:26.9 | but they haven't commented yet about Israel's possible role in the pager explosions. |
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