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Hurricane Lee, now a Class 5 storm, is anticipated to quickly intensify because it churns in direction of the Caribbean. Its heart will doubtless go north of the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico, and it may pose doubtlessly harmful seashore circumstances on the U.S. East Coast as early as Sunday.
- NPR’s Michael Copley tells Up First that the acute climate seen the world over this summer season is a consequence of local weather change and an El Niño climate sample, which is amplifying that warming. He says we are able to anticipate this sample to proceed so long as folks hold emitting greenhouse gasses into the ambiance.
The core of Hurricane Lee is forecast to go north of the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico over the subsequent a number of days.
Nationwide Hurricane Heart
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The core of Hurricane Lee is forecast to go north of the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico over the subsequent a number of days.
Nationwide Hurricane Heart
A choose sentenced “That ’70s Present” actor Danny Masterson to 30 years to life in jail for raping two girls when he was on the peak of his profession 20 years in the past. Masterson was first accused of sexual assault in 2017, and in 2020 was charged with raping three girls at his California dwelling between 2001 and 2003.
- A jury discovered Masterson responsible on two counts at his second trial in Could (the primary led to a mistrial), however couldn’t come to a unanimous determination on the third rely, which allegedly concerned his then-girlfriend. The accusers testified that Masterson drugged them at his home earlier than raping them. That they had all met by the Church of Scientology.
Ukraine is making an attempt to do one thing no nation has ever tried: function a nuclear energy business in the midst of a battle. The Zaporizhzhia plant has already been caught within the crossfire, and specialists say not less than 9 different Soviet-era reactors are susceptible as Russia launches extra missile and drone assaults.
- NPR’s Brian Mann, who just lately visited a plant in western Ukraine, stories that Ukrainian officers don’t have any selection however to maintain them up and working: These atomic reactors present about half of Ukraine’s electrical energy.
- The top of Ukraine’s nationwide nuclear energy utility advised Mann that he worries a “Fukushima-like catastrophe” may occur at Zaporizhzhia, which remains to be occupied by Russian troopers.
Unemployment is on the rise in Maui within the wake of the wildfires that destroyed many peoples’ houses — and livelihoods. NPR’s Adrian Florido stories that the financial disaster is due partially to the drastic drop in tourism, with eating places and lodges principally empty and staff in all places getting laid off. The week earlier than the hearth 130 in Maui folks filed unemployment claims, in comparison with 4,500 the week after.
- Enterprise leaders and staff try to get the message out that they need vacationers to go to Maui, opposite to what many mentioned within the fires’ fast aftermath. Officers additionally need to prepare residents to assist with cleanup and development efforts quite than hiring outsiders.
From our hosts
Cabo Verde the plaza
Michel Martin
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Cabo Verde the plaza
Michel Martin
Michel Martin is Morning Version’s latest host. This week, she traveled to the Chad-Sudan border.
A dusty plaza with a handful of distributors promoting trinkets. A bay with mild waves lapping the shore. A centuries previous historic church with a big baptismal font. Mundane photographs with a hidden, wealthy historical past. This was Cidade Velha, Cabo Verde.
Cabo Verde is an island nation within the central Atlantic the place we stopped for refueling and crew relaxation on our solution to the refugee settlement in Chad. We had been touring with the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, and since we had a protracted layover, she instructed we go to this web site as a result of it was the primary human settlement in Cabo Verde, and thus, the birthplace of the transatlantic slave commerce. For 3 centuries, starting in 1462, this pretty place was the middle of human commerce.
The attractive bay? The place the captives disembarked. The plaza? The place they had been purchased and bought. The attractive church with blue and white Portuguese tiles? The place the enslaved had been baptized as a result of, our information advised us, the baptized folks introduced the next value in the marketplace.
Usually on a reporting journey, what haunts you shouldn’t be the factor you anticipate to see, it is the factor you had no thought you’d see. I knew the journey to the Chad-Sudan border could be intense, however had no thought a scenic overlook held the origin story to a centuries lengthy tragedy.
Weekend picks
Consideration, followers of darkish academia: These new YA books could also be for you.
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Consideration, followers of darkish academia: These new YA books could also be for you.
Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR
Take a look at what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
Films: NPR critic Eric Deggans calls Little Richard: I Am All the pieces a “masterpiece.” The brand new CNN documentary focuses on the star’s roots in — and battle with — his connection to queer tradition.
TV: I hadn’t heard of Face to Face till now, however NPR critic John Powers’ description of the third and last season has me hooked: What if Succession‘s Logan Roy solved a homicide?
Books: It is nonetheless scorching and muggy in D.C., the place NPR’s headquarters are. However these 5 YA books will transport you straight into autumn with their academia vibes.
Music: Lauren Mayberry of the band Chvrches goes solo (don’t fret, it is not the tip of the band). She chats with All Issues Thought of concerning the subsequent step in her profession.
Video games: Starfield is a online game a long time within the making. It is one of many greatest tales ever advised — and whether or not gamers like it can have large penalties for the business.
Quiz: This week’s NPR information quiz begs the query: The place hasn’t somebody escaped from jail? Plus, check your data of the Stone Aged, aged Stones, the aged and the (doubtless) stoned.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Reza Baluchi was taken in by the U.S. Coast Guard final week whereas making an attempt to cross the Atlantic in a “hydro pod” manufactured from buoys. Authorities in Flagler County, Fla., responded to Baluchi and his vessel in 2021 and posted images of his vessel on Fb.
Flagler County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Workplace on Fb
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Reza Baluchi was taken in by the U.S. Coast Guard final week whereas making an attempt to cross the Atlantic in a “hydro pod” manufactured from buoys. Authorities in Flagler County, Fla., responded to Baluchi and his vessel in 2021 and posted images of his vessel on Fb.
Flagler County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Workplace on Fb
- The U.S. Coast Guard arrested a person making an attempt to run a large hamster wheel throughout the Atlantic Ocean — for the fourth time.
- A uncommon child giraffe born with out spots in Limestone, Tenn., now has a becoming identify: Kipekee. It means “distinctive” in Swahili.
- Archeologists in Norway have found an roughly 4,000-year-old arrow shaft from the Stone Age. It predates earlier finds within the space by greater than 2,000 years.
This article was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. Suzanne Nuyen contributed.
