Hezbollah Pager Explosions, Fed Interest Rate Decision, Drug Overdose Deaths

真主党寻呼机爆炸、美联储利率决定、药物过量死亡

Up First

2024-09-18

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Electronic pagers carried by members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday. The incident killed at least a dozen people and injured thousands more. The Federal Reserve is set to announce a long-awaited rate cut. And drug overdose deaths in the U.S. are falling sharply. Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter. Today's episode of Up First was edited by Vincent Ni, Rafael Nam, Andrea de Leon, HJ Mai and Ally Schweitzer. It was produced by Iman Maani, Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Mansee Khurana. We get engineering support from Carleigh Strange. And our technical director is Zac Coleman. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • How did someone turn thousands of pagers into little bombs?

  • Members of the lebanese group Hezbollah received a page followed by explosions that came in homes, in stores and on the street.

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  • The Federal Reserve decides on interest rates today.

  • The current batch of data no longer requires patience.

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  • So how will a rate cut affect the average american?

  • And new data suggests progress in the fight against America's drug epidemic.

  • Drug overdose deaths, which have totaled over 100,000 annually for the past several years, are finally falling.

  • We're seeing declines of 20%, 30%.

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