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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Israel is expanding airstrikes into northern Lebanon. The attack on a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Tripoli killed a commander of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. NPR's Jane Araf reports Israel has so far focused its attacks on Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs.
This is Lebanon's second biggest city, Tripoli, and it's far enough north that you normally would not get a lot of people fleeing the fighting in the south, but...
But Beirut is overwhelmed with displaced people from the southern suburbs of the capital and from the south of Lebanon. So they're starting to come here. Some of them are staying in hotels. Some of them have found apartments. All are disoriented. They left with nothing. There were two children here who were asking their aunt if they were going to be bombed here. And the latest bombing happened.
by Israel in a Palestinian refugee camp just on the outskirts of Tripoli has been even more unsettling for them. Jane Araf, NPR News, Tripoli, Lebanon. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail in western Pennsylvania last night. He was joined by billionaire Elon Musk and his vice presidential running mate J.D. Vance in the town of Butler, the site of Trump's first assassination attempt.
Vance used part of the speech to supporters to accuse the Biden administration of a slowed response to hurricane relief efforts in parts of the South. And look, I don't think there's anything malign going on, but there's a lot of basic bureaucratic incompetence that is delaying the delivery of communications resources.
of food, of water, of medicine. Vice President Kamala Harris met with state and local officials in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday, pledging continued federal assistance.
In flood-ravaged eastern Tennessee, language and other barriers have left some Latino workers feeling isolated. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the larger Latino community is reaching out with food and support. The tomato farm where Daniel Lopez works spans both sides of the Pigeon River in Newport. Tropical storm Helene ruined the harvest and Lopez's housing. The refrigerator turned the water upside down.
My mini-fridge was knocked down by the flooding, he says, and all the food spilled out.
But seasonal workers depend on their employer for transportation, and the men here have not seen the many pop-up sites with free food and water. So business owner Sandra DeLeon organized volunteers to bring it to them. We've done what they've done. We've picked tomatoes. We've cleaned houses. We've done everything. Lopez is still working here a few weeks more to clean up the mess from Helene. Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Newport, Tennessee. This is NPR News.
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