NPR News: 05-27-2026 3PM EDT
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What recent military actions have taken place in Lebanon?
Israel's military says it has launched airstrikes on Tyre, the second biggest city in southern Lebanon. It said it was targeting the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah and had warned tens of thousands of residents to flee the city before the bombing began. NPR's Jane Araf has details from the ground.
We're on a main highway from the south and it's just choked with vehicles. Cars, trucks, buses, minivans, some people on motorcycles. A lot of people have packed everything they can into these cars, but one of the women we just spoke with said they left with food still on the table. This is a major holiday, one of the biggest holidays in the Muslim calendar. But people are fleeing for their lives, not just the city of Tyre, but other cities in the south as well. And most of these people we talk to say they don't know where they'll go. Jane Araf, NPR News, in Sidon, Lebanon.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is now the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. He defeated longtime incumbent Senator John Corden in the Republican runoff. The Texas Newsroom's Blaise Gainey has the latest.
Before the endorsement from President Trump came in last week, Paxton had already been launching attacks toward his Democratic opponent, Texas State Representative James Tallarico. While polls show the race will be close, Paxton says he believes Texans won't let him down.
Texas will be the radical left's number one priority. But if there's one thing I know about Texans, it's that we're not going to let them take it.
Tallarico has already come out with an ad against Paxton saying the race is now the people versus Paxton, who he calls the most corrupt politician in America. I'm Blaise Ganey in Austin.
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map that favors Republicans in this year's midterms. The state's GOP leadership has filed an emergency appeal after a court found that a Republican-backed redistricting plan intentionally discriminated against black people. More people in the U.S. are going hungry now than they did during the depths of the pandemic. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on a new survey from the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
The New York Fed periodically asks Americans if they're having to skip meals, rely on food donations, or receiving federal assistance to buy groceries. Results from the most recent survey show higher levels of food insecurity now than during the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic triggered double-digit unemployment. In February, one out of ten families missed meals for lack of food, but hunger was twice as common among families earning less than $50,000 a year. The results highlight what observers have called the K-shaped economy, with rich households thriving while poor families struggle. The Agriculture Department, which oversees the food assistance program, halted its own research on food insecurity last year.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
This is NPR. Emergency personnel responding to the site of yesterday's tank implosion at a Washington state paper mill have at least two major tasks ahead of them today. Keep the collapsed tank at Longview's Nippon DynaWave packaging from leaking more of a dangerous chemical mixture. And then locate nine workers who've not been seen since the tank implosion started. killed at least one person and injured several others, including a responding firefighter. Authorities say they do not expect to find any more survivors. They also say there was no threat to public health. NASA is unveiling plans for a more permanent presence on the moon's surface. NPR's William Jones explains.
The newly released renderings from NASA show astronauts, moon buggies and hopping drones spread across the moon's surface. At an event in Washington to unveil the next stage of the Artemis program, Dr. Laurie Glaze, who leads NASA's exploration missions, says they're eyeing a more sustained lunar presence.
With moon base... Artemis astronauts will stay longer, explore farther, and conduct the kinds of science that advances exploration itself.
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