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

Up First from NPR

3d ago • 12 mins

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.

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