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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
What significant event regarding Jesse Jackson is reported?
Civil rights pioneer and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson died today following a lengthy illness. He was 84 years old. Eddie Glaude Jr., a distinguished professor at Princeton University's Department of African American Studies, credits Jackson with pioneering grassroots equality campaigns that crossed racial boundaries.
Jackson was organizing coal miners in West Virginia, moving through Appalachia, not just simply black folk in South Carolina and the like. And it was just this extraordinary, shall we say, grassroots progressive effort that predates Bernie Sanders and the like.
Eddie Glaude Jr. on NPR's Morning Edition. The U.S. military has conducted three more deadly boat strikes of what it says were narco-terrorists. In a post on social media, U.S. Southern Command says 11 people were killed yesterday. Here's NPR's Carrie Conn.
Three, quote, lethal kinetic strikes were launched against vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations. According to the military, Southcom says intelligence confirmed that the boats struck were transiting no-narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations. The military did not provide its intelligence or evidence. Of the 11 men killed, the military says eight were killed on two different boat strikes in the eastern Pacific and three more on a third vessel in the Caribbean. The U.S. says no military forces were harmed. To date, the U.S. has killed at least 144 people in 42 strikes in operations many legal experts say are unlawful. Carrie Conn, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.
Witness testimony continues today in Colin Gray's trial. He's accused of providing his son, Colt Gray, with a rifle used in the 2024 shooting at Appalachee High School in Georgia. Georgia Public Broadcasting's Chase McGee reports.
Prosecutors spent the morning calling witnesses, including students injured in the classroom where Colt Gray allegedly opened fire and the health care workers who treated them at a Northeast Georgia hospital. District Attorney Brad Smith called Natalie Griffith to the stand. Natalie was a freshman in the algebra class that Gray fired into. She was shot in the wrist.
Once I registered that it was blood, my brain kind of blocked it out. And I just, I knew what it was. It was a hole.
She suffered permanent nerve damage and lost independent function of her fingers. The state argues that Colt's father, Colin, was criminally negligent and ignored warning signs that his son was a danger to himself and others. For NPR News, I'm Chase McGee in Winder.
Against the backdrop of indirect nuclear talks with the U.S., Iran says it temporarily closes Strait of Hormuz for military drills. About 20 percent of the globe's oil passes through the international waterway. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow was up 110 points. You're listening to NPR News. Authorities investigating the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, disclosed they sent a lab DNA evidence from gloves found about two miles from Guthrie's Arizona home. FBI says the gloves look like the ones worn by a masked person recorded on a doorbell camera video at Guthrie's home. Book lovers are mourning the loss of Michael Silverblatt. He was the longtime host of the syndicated KCRW show Bookworm, where he went deep interviewing the day's biggest authors and poets.
NPR's Andrew Limbaugh reports.
Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace. For more than 30 years, Michael Silverblatt conducted deep, thorough, and intimate interviews with writers.
What recent military actions have the U.S. conducted against narco-terrorists?
In 1998, he called up Toni Morrison at home to talk about her work.
And I wondered if you could talk about the ways in which... These books combat silence. That's an interesting way to put it.
Silverblatt started the show in 1989, and it ran until he had to retire in 2022 for health reasons. And throughout that time, he became known as a reader's reader, someone who took seriously the words on the page. And he lived out every book lover's fantasy.
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