Why do so many scary movies end with the devil did it? How has cannibalism on screen

changed? Why do directors need to stop using scary service workers in horror?

This month on the It's Been a Minute Podcast we are scary service workers in horror.

This month on the It's Been a Minute podcast, we are diving into horror tropes and what

they reveal about our current culture.

Listen to It's Been a Minute wherever you get your podcasts.

Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Janine Hurst.

President Biden says the cost of rebuilding from Hurricane Milton alone could be $50 billion. of reporters saying that more than 3 million people lost power because of Hurricane

Milton but he said 50,000 power line workers from 43 states and Canada had come

to Florida to help restore the lines. He said he'd spoken to 50 to 75 officials from North Carolina to Georgia, including

mayors and county executives, about the damage from Milton and Hurricane Helene. He said

he'll be asking Congress for a lot of reconstruction funding, but he doesn't know exactly how much.

And he repeated his promise to the hurricane victims that the government will do everything it can to help them pick up the pieces and get back to where they were.

Maraleaison, NPR News.

The US is imposing more sanctions on Iran's energy sector

to protest Iran's missile attack on Israel earlier this month.

And Paris Michelle Kellerman reports the U.S. is trying to persuade Israel not to hit Iranian

energy sites in response.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the U.S. Iranian Energy Sites in response.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the U.S. has made clear there would be consequences

for what he calls Iran's unprecedented October 1st attack on Israel. And so he says the U.S. is expanding sanctions on Iran's

petroleum and petrochemical sector, adding 16 entities and 17 vessels to a U.S.

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