The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, The Old Country, and Intermezzo: a tribute to the late J. Perkins Mastromarino
There are games available. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the first in the main game series to star princess Zelda. James Perkins Mastromarino of NPR talked about how it stood against the rest of the series.
🎵 Music: Keith Garret will release his jazz album The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn on Nov. 8, which was recorded with a trio in 1992. Ahead of that he is giving the world premiere of his swinging first single to NPR’s station, WRTI.
Sally Rooney’s fourth novel Intermezzo is about learning to accept loss. It follows two Irish brothers, 32-year-old Peter Koubek and 22-year-old Ivan, as they navigate their troubled relationships with each other and the women in the aftermath of their father’s death.
Police detective Lois Tryon is teaming up with a nun to solve a number of horrible crimes that could have been a ruse to humiliate her in Grotesquerie. Here are some shows that will be new this week.
His Three Daughters: Where do you hope to be? What will you do if you are in Las Vegas? If you’re in Nevada, how will you be?
The new film His ThreeDaughters has three sisters who must come together in their dying father’s apartment.
I asked my last question to all of them, where do you hope to be a day after the election? Pretty much every answer had the word “united” in it…just like it says in the name: United States of America.
I went to the town of Pahrump, located in Nye County, which is an hour and half west of Las Vegas. I talked to lots of Trump supporters who were convinced that even if Trump wins, Congress would somehow stop him from fulfilling his campaign promises.
I thought tipped workers might be optimistic, considering both presidential candidates promised in Las Vegas campaign stops that if elected, their tips would no longer be taxed. Nope. Many people felt that the government wouldn’t make up for lost tax revenue on tipped income, and they didn’t know how they would do it.
When I went door-to-door with canvassers, I’d ask people how they were feeling about how the election was going. Before they’d answer, I’d notice eye rolls, shaking heads, sighs or some other non-verbal ways to express how tired they are…before saying how they just want it to be over already.
Source: Hurricane Helene batters the South. And, takeaways from voters in swing state Nevada
The Status of a Men’s Corrections Facility in the Middle East and the Impact on the Rapid Support Forces: A Case Study of Sudan
Pennsylvania’s Lewisburg federal prison has failed to take the needed steps to reduce suicide risks among its inmates, according to the latest review of the medium-security men’s institution. The bureau’s watchdog found prisoners with mental illness were usually put into solitary confinement for longer than recommended by BOP policy. This puts them at higher risk of assault and even death. The other issues that are happening here are a closer look at them.
The Rapid Support Forces are a paramilitary group in Khartoum which the Sudan army is trying to get rid of. The RSF has been in charge of the capital for over a year. Millions have been displaced since the beginning of the war, marking the worst displacement and hunger crises in the world.
Netanyahu abruptly cut short his visit to the United States to return to Israel. Hours earlier, he addressed the United Nations, vowing that Israel’s intensified campaign against Hezbollah over the past two weeks would continue — further dimming hopes for an internationally backed cease-fire.
Hurricane Helene weakened to a Category 1 storm as it moved north from Florida to Georgia after hitting Florida’s Big Bend region as a powerful Category 4 storm late Thursday. The storm made landfall with winds up to 140 miles per hour and a storm surge of 20 feet. Early reports say there have been three storm-related deaths. Helene could potentially cause destruction across a vast area of the South in the hours and days to come.
The U.S. Attack on Hezbollah in Dahiyeh: Insights from the American-Military Campaign
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The Israeli military said it had killed the 64-year-old leader of Hezbollah in what it called a “targeted strike” on the group’s headquarters on Friday in the southern Beirut neighborhood of Dahiyeh.
To a degree unseen in past conflicts, Israel spent the week pushing to eliminate Hezbollah’s senior leadership. But an attempt to assassinate Nasrallah — successful or not — would be a major escalation. The US had no advance warning of the strikes, the Pentagon said.
The UN was where Netanyahu pledged to “continue degrading Hezbollah” until Israel achieved its goals.
The last Israeli-Hezbollah war in 2006 wreaked havoc on parts of Lebanon, with heavy damage inflicted on the country. Or worse, they fear, Lebanon could suffer devastation on the scale caused in Gaza by Israel’s nearly yearlong campaign against Hamas.
The Lebanese health ministry announced late Friday that six people had died and more than 90 had been injured by the strikes, but authorities said they were still clearing vast quantities of rubble, meaning those numbers would likely rise.
Hussein Fadlallah, Hezbollah’s top official in Beirut, said in a speech that no matter how many commanders Israel kills, the group has endless numbers of experienced fighters. He promised that Hezbollah will continue fighting until Israel stops its assault on Gaza.
Nasrallah was the leader of the Iran-backed militia and he was born in 1960 to a poor family in north Lebanon. He was the eldest of nine children and went on to briefly study theology in Iran in 1989.
In 2000 Nasrallah led his group into a war that ended an occupation by Israel. The same year the U.S designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization, his son was killed fighting with the Israeli army.
In a statement released by the group, it said that Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs.” The Iranian news agency reported on Saturday that a commander in the Revolutionary Guards was among the dead.
Hezbollah confirmed that its secretary general, Hasan Nasrallah, died in an attack by the Israeli army on Friday.
Israel strikes Hezbollah in blast targeting the militant group’s leader: Netanyahu’s U.N. briefing at the Dahiyeh suburbs
The scope of Israel’s operation is unclear, but officials have said that a ground invasion is possible to push the group away from the border. Thousands of troops were moved toward the border.
The United Nations said the fighting has displaced 211,000 people, including 85,000 now staying in public schools and other shelters. Airstrikes have forced 20 primary health care centers to shut down and disrupted access to clean water for nearly 300,000 people.
Israeli army spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the strikes targeted the main Hezbollah headquarters, saying it was located underground beneath residential buildings.
There was no immediate comment about the type of bomb or how many it was that caused the explosion, but it leveled an area greater than a city block. The Israeli army has a lot of American made guided bombs that can be used to hit subterranean targets.
Footage showed rescue workers clambering over large slabs of concrete, surrounded by high piles of twisted metal and wreckage. Several craters were visible, one with a car toppled into it. A stream of people are seen fleeing along the main road out of the district.
The series of blasts at around nightfall reduced six apartment towers to rubble in Haret Hreik, a densely populated, predominantly Shiite district of Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburbs, according to Lebanon’s national news agency. There were many windows that were rattled and houses that were shaking when a wall of black and orange smoke rose into the sky.
News of the blasts came as Netanyahu was briefing reporters after his U.N. address. Netanyahu quickly ended the briefing after a military aide whispered into his ear.
Hezbollah campaign in the Lebanese capital: The death toll grows louder in the coming epoch of terror
The death toll is likely to rise significantly as teams comb through the rubble of six buildings. Israel launched a series of strikes on other areas of the southern suburbs following the initial blast.
The Health ministry in Lebanon said six people were killed and more than 90 were wounded. It was the biggest blast to hit the Lebanese capital in the past year and appeared likely to push the escalating conflict closer to full-fledged war.
People in the giant crowd waved their fists in the air and chanted, “We will never accept humiliation,” as they marched marched behind the three coffins, wrapped in the group’s yellow flag.
Hezbollah officials and their supporters remain defiant. The three Hezbollah members killed in earlier strikes were laid to rest in a funeral attended by thousands in another part of the city.
In the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, civil defense workers pulled the bodies of two women — 35-year-old Hiba Ataya and her mother Sabah Olyan — from the rubble of a building brought down by a strike.
The Israeli security official said that he did not expect the campaign against Hezbollah to last very long because the military’s goal is much smaller.
Loud music could be heard across Tel Aviv as the Israeli military announced that Nasrallah would no longer be able to “inspire the world”.
Nasrallah only very rarely made public appearances during his 32-year tenure atop a group that several nations, including the United States, have labeled a terrorist organization.
The Fate of the Axe of Resistance: Israel’s Challenge to Hezbollah, Hamas and Lebanon’s Cross-border
Israel’s top military commander, Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, issued a video statement Saturday, in which he said the unprecedented strikes Friday that had targeted Hezbollah’s leadership was “not the end” for what he termed Israel’s “toolbox.’
Amer Al Sabaileh, a Jordanian security expert and close observer of Hezbollah, said the fact Nasrallah was willing to take the high risk to his life of gathering with other Hezbollah commanders amid Israel’s campaign indicates the group was in crisis after two weeks of crippling Israeli attacks.
“The level of shock among Hezbollah cannot be measured,” Al Sabaileh said. They never expected that Israel would start and continue to attack Hezbollah.
The consequences for the region could be significant according to Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the British think tank Chatham House.
The killing has repercussions for Iran’s so-called axis of resistance, which includes Hezbollah, Hamas and other militant groups. “The axis has not proven effective at providing Iran deterrence against Israel, or a Gaza cease-fire.”
But Orna Mizrahi, an Israeli security expert from the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said Israel’s successes in degrading Hezbollah’s leadership structure and military capabilities could be leveraged to reach a lasting agreement that would force Hezbollah forces back from Lebanon’s border with northern Israel.
Hezbollah’s succession plans and the process by which Nasrallah may be replaced are opaque, but should follow a blueprint that saw his own elevation more than 30 years ago, according to Nick Blanford, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs and long-time expert of Hezbollah based in Beirut.
“The morale blow is going to be massive for Hezbollah, but technically it should be a repetition of what happened in ’92,” says Blanford. The Shura Council gets to choose someone else.