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The episode covers several major international and domestic developments, focusing on escalating tensions in the Middle East following Israeli strikes in Lebanon, a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire deal, and Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It also reports on domestic U.S. issues inc

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