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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: 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.
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Chapter 3: 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. He had two apartments, one to live in, another for his books. Andrew Limbaugh, NPR News.
Celebrations are being held in Hong Kong and around the world for the Year of the Horse. Audio courtesy of the Associated Press. People are marking the Lunar New Year with parades, street festivals and visits to temples. U.S. stocks trading higher this hour. The Dow is up 110 points. The S&P is gaining 22. The Nasdaq gaining 103 points. It's NPR News.