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Today’s high tales

Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, and persons are struggling “catastrophic levels of hunger,” the world’s main authority on starvation has warned. A report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification discovered that 1 out of three kids below two years previous are acutely malnourished, and a few have already died. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres known as it “an entirely man-made disaster” and stated the report confirmed the necessity for an instantaneous humanitarian cease-fire.

Palestinian crowds battle to purchase bread from a bakery in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 18.

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Palestinian crowds battle to purchase bread from a bakery in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 18.

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Palestinians in northern Gaza inform NPR’s Aya Batrawy that they’ve gone as much as two days and not using a single meal and are feeding their kids leaves and animal feed. Others inform her they do not need the haphazard, chaotic air drops of meals from international locations just like the United States. Most of Gaza’s borders have been sealed for the reason that Oct. 7 Hamas-led assaults and the conflict that ensued. Aid teams say Israel is stopping vans from coming into Gaza. Israel says Hamas is accountable for the chaos.

• In a name yesterday, President Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that an Israeli army operation in Rafah would deepen anarchy in Gaza. Netanyahu agreed to ship army and humanitarian officers to Washington to debate another technique. 

In Louisiana, nearly all abortions have been unlawful since 2022. In the wake of this ban, pregnant ladies have been forced to wait for prenatal care, denied swift remedy for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies and given dangerous, pointless surgical procedures, in keeping with a brand new report obtained first by NPR. It’s one of the in depth research up to now on how abortion bans influence being pregnant care and worsen maternal well being.

• “Things are not the way they were before the state banned abortion,” NPR community reporter Rosemary Westwood of WWNO tells Up First. Some are telling sufferers they should wait 12 weeks before getting prenatal care as a result of a majority of miscarriages occur inside that time-frame, and treating a miscarriage can look just like offering an abortion. In some instances the place it was clear a being pregnant was ending, some docs opted to carry out a C-section slightly than a typical abortion process.

The Environmental Protection Agency introduced yesterday it’s banning chrysotile asbestos, the commonest type of asbestos. The cancer-causing substance is linked to tens of thousands of American deaths yearly. More than 50 international locations have already banned it. Companies fought again when the EPA tried prohibiting asbestos within the late Eighties, and a 1989 ban was overturned in 1991. The new rule does not outlaw all types of asbestos. The substance nonetheless lurks in lots of present buildings and merchandise nationwide.

Life recommendation

A girl watches an annular photo voltaic eclipse on October 14, 2023 utilizing particular photo voltaic filter glasses on the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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A girl watches an annular photo voltaic eclipse on October 14, 2023 utilizing particular photo voltaic filter glasses on the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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On April 8, hundreds of thousands of Americans will get the possibility to see a photo voltaic eclipse sweep throughout the nation. This celestial occasion is a shocking — however harmful — sight. Looking straight on the solar with out the correct eyewear earlier than it is fully lined by the moon can completely injury your eyesight. Here’s what to know and find out how to shield your eyes:

• You will not really feel the solar burning your retina. The injury solely turns into obvious hours after it happens.
• Make positive your eclipse glasses have the precise filters. You can reuse glasses from the 2017 photo voltaic eclipse in the event that they’re nonetheless in good situation. The American Astronomical Society has a list of vetted suppliers.
• You can view the eclipse not directly by making a pinhole projector utilizing family provides like a colander. 
• If you are within the eclipse’s path of totality, it’s secure to take away your glasses as soon as the solar is 100% obscured. The sky will darken, and the solar will develop into a darkish circle surrounded by a ghostly white ring known as the corona.

Today’s hear

A Tupac Shakur “hologram” was used within the deceased rapper’s digital efficiency on the Coachella Music Festival in 2012.

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A Tupac Shakur “hologram” was used within the deceased rapper’s digital efficiency on the Coachella Music Festival in 2012.

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Just as a result of your favourite singer is useless or absent doesn’t suggest you may’t see them “live.” The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll is coming again to a live performance corridor in November. Elvis Evolution is a live performance expertise that makes use of AI know-how to recreate the singer. While the know-how might sound cutting-edge, it additionally makes use of a magic trick that’s practically 200 years previous.

Listen to the evolution of “hologram” variations of your favourite artists here.

If the phrase “One Shining Moment” means nothing to you, allow us to assist put together you for March Madness.

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If the phrase “One Shining Moment” means nothing to you, allow us to assist put together you for March Madness.

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1. The first spherical of March Madness begins on Thursday. If you do not know a buzzer beater from a bracket buster, use NPR’s dictionary of March Madness vocabulary to remain within the know.
2. River Adams’ household got here to the U.S. in 1991 as Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union. During a troublesome monetary time, Adams’ fast-food supervisor and unsung hero risked his job to assist feed them.
3. New analysis from the National Institutes of Health finds no uncommon sample of injury within the brains of Havana syndrome sufferers. The outcomes challenge the allegations that tons of of presidency employees and their households had been focused since embassy employees in Havana reported the primary case in 2016.

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. Mansee Khurana contributed.