This NPR News episode covers breaking developments on a thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, political fallout over a dropped Fed investigation, escalating conflict in Lebanon, Chernobyl’s enduring nuclear risks amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, and historic marathon rec
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