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Lebanese officials say more than 800,000 people have been displaced and at least 700 killed.

Israel says the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah launched its heaviest attack on Israel this week, firing more than 200 rockets.

NPR's Hadil Ashashi reports from Beirut.

Authorities in West Bloomfield, Michigan, say the 41-year-old man from Lebanon who tried to attack a synagogue in that city Thursday had recently learned that four relatives died in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.

The man, Amman Mohamed Ghazazi, took his own life during the attack.

He had become a naturalized U.S.

citizen 10 years ago.

FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyon told reporters Friday the man had no previous criminal record, but he did have explosives in his vehicle.

Officials say quick thinking from security guards prevented a larger tragedy.

Richard Gunnell will soon be departing his position as president of the Kennedy Center.

Under his leadership, the center has seen numerous artists cancel their performances, staff departures, and falling ticket sales.

NPR's Elizabeth Blair has more.

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The U.S.

is headed to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic with a 5-3 win over Canada.

And the Dominican Republic beat South Korea by the mercy rule, the final score 10-0.

NPR's Becky Sullivan reports.

The man who authorities say opened fire Thursday at a classroom at Virginia's Old Dominion University killing one person had been released from a federal prison in 2024 after finishing a drug program.

But according to the AP, Mohamed Baylor Jalal should have been disqualified from early release because he had been convicted on a terrorism-related charge.

Journalist James Burns, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with the New York Times, has died at the age of 81.