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Hundreds of dockworkers have known as off the strike that shut down East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. The Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation and the US Maritime Alliance ended the three-day standoff with either side agreeing to a 62% wage improve over six years. The union had needed a 77% improve over six years. Each events agreed to increase the present contract till Jan. 15, 2025, to allow them to proceed negotiations.

• 🎧 The largest sticking level within the ongoing negotiations is now automation, NPR’s Andrea Hsu tells Up First. The union seeks language that ensures people, not machines, will deal with the duty of transferring delivery containers. Basically, they’re against any expertise that eliminates the necessity for union labor. Union President Harold Daggett says that even partially automated tools poses a menace, because it may result in job losses. For now, the U.S. has prevented an financial disaster, and it’ll take some days for issues to return to regular, Hsu says.

Three former Memphis cops acquired a combined verdict within the high-profile police brutality case associated to Tyre Nichols’ deadly beating. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith have been discovered not responsible of depriving Nichols of his civil rights, leading to loss of life. This was the harshest cost they confronted, and a responsible verdict may have resulted in life in jail. The officers have been all convicted of obstruction of justice and witness tampering. Haley was additionally discovered responsible of depriving Nichols of his civil rights and deliberate indifference leading to severe bodily harm.

• 🎧 NPR’s Debbie Elliott says Nichols’ household is asking this a victory, particularly contemplating how troublesome it may be to safe convictions in police brutality instances. “To see these officers held accountable for what they did and put our household by did give us hope for the longer term that perhaps this gained’t ever occur to a different household,” Nichols’ sister Keyana Dixon mentioned. Activists hope an ongoing civil rights investigation by the Justice Division will result in a change within the tradition of policing. Authorized proceedings proceed because the ex-officers face trial on state homicide fees. The Nichols’ household has filed a wrongful loss of life swimsuit in opposition to the town of Memphis.

Because the election looms one month away, all eyes are on who will win the presidency. However a number of the most consequential and controversial points — together with abortion, colleges, weapons, taxes and healthcare — shall be determined by the state lawmakers in your poll. These legislators’ important energy is amplified by a divided and gridlocked Congress. Twenty legislatures have Republican supermajorities which permits them to override governor vetoes. NPR is inspecting state legislatures the place partisan management hangs within the steadiness. These states may expertise important adjustments within the upcoming election. See the place your state falls with NPR’s interactive map.

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In lower than three days, 4 to 5 months-worth of rain drenched western North Carolina because the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore throughout the southeast U.S. Dozens of individuals have been killed and whole cities have been flooded. Lots of the hardest-hit communities are rural with lower than 1,000 residents. Marshall, N.C., was constructed alongside railroad tracks on the banks of the French Broad River.

Weekend picks

Take a look at what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:

🍿Motion pictures: Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola speaks with NPR’s Mandalit del Barco about Megalopolis, a movie he’s labored on for the reason that Eighties. It pits the visionary architect Cesar Catilina in opposition to Franklyn Cicero, the Mayor of New Rome, in a society plagued with greed and political division.

📺 TV: Netflix’s new sequence No one Needs This, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, doesn’t solely provide rom-com banter. It additionally has some fairly deep questions on religion and compatibility.

📚 Books: SNL star Kate McKinnon says her first e-book, The Millicent Quibb Faculty of Etiquette For Younger Women of Mad Science, is a part of her “non-public mission to provide a wink and a nod” to younger individuals who may really feel “completely different” like she did rising up.

🎵 Music: Rapper Future hit #1 this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the third time within the final six months along with his newest album Mixtape Pluto.

🎭 Theater: The acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe present, Struggle Evening, options 5 actors who compete to win over the viewers throughout a 90-minute efficiency. Viewers members are given a tool to anonymously vote in several rounds and reply questions on their age, earnings, and the qualities they worth in a pacesetter.

❓Quiz: They debated, wrote memoirs, received inaugurated and turned 100. What else did political individuals do? Put your information to the take a look at and see for those who can beat my near-perfect rating.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

1. The U.Ok. has develop into the primary main economic system to give up coal energy, a main contributor to international warming. It’s a milestone for the nation that was the primary to make use of the fossil gas.
2. Rust is scheduled to debut at a movie pageant in Poland, three years after the deadly on-set capturing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The screening goals to honor her.
3. Nation music star Garth Brooks faces accusations of rape and sexual assault. The girl who filed the lawsuit yesterday alleges she was repeatedly harassed by him and was raped in 2019 whereas working as his make-up artist.

This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.