Hezbollah Pager Explosions, Fed Interest Rate Decision, Drug Overdose Deaths

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

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Electronic pagers carried by members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday. The incident killed at least a dozen people and injured thousands more. The Federal Reserve is set to announce a long-awaited rate cut. And drug overdose deaths in the U.S. are falling sharply.

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0:00.0	How did someone turn thousands of pagers into little bombs?
0:07.0	Members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah received a page, followed by explosions that came in homes homes in stores and on the street.
0:14.8	I'm Steve Insky with Leela Foddle and this is up first from NPR News.
0:19.2	The Federal Reserve decides on interest rates today. The current batch of data no longer requires patients. It requires
0:27.0	patients. It requires action. So how will a rate cut affect the average American?
0:32.0	And new data suggests... will a rate cut affect the average American.
0:32.8	And new data suggests progress in the fight against America's drug epidemic.
0:38.1	Drug overdose deaths, which have totaled over 100,000 annually for the past several years, are finally falling.
0:44.7	We're seeing declines of 20%, 30%.
0:48.2	Has the country turned a corner?
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1:21.0	The scenes across Lebanon were like something out of a James Bond movie.
1:26.6	Yesterday, pagers exploded across the country.
1:29.6	These are old style communication devices, often used today by hospital staff, or groups that want secure
1:36.7	communications, which apparently included the armed group has below. Many of its members
1:42.1	were carrying these pages in bags or on their
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