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EPISODE · Mar 11, 2026 · 22 MIN

How Lebanon Got Pulled Into the War and Why Transgender Kansans Are Losing Their Licenses

from Here's the Scoop · host yasmin vossoughian, Daniele Hamamdjian, jo yurcaba

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Lebanon, with more than 750,000 people displaced as Israeli strikes have turned the country’s south into an active war zone. NBC News Foreign Correspondent Daniele Hamamdjian joins us from Beirut to explain how and why Lebanon became part of the war in Iran. Meanwhile, 1,700 transgender people in Kansas are having their driver’s licenses invalidated after today a judge upheld a law requiring gender markers to align with the gender assigned at birth. NBC News Enterprise Reporter Jo Yurcaba explains how the ruling fits into the growing rollback of transgender rights nationwide. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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