This NPR News segment covers multiple breaking international and domestic stories, including a proposed U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, escalating U.S.-Iran tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, Alabama's controversial redistricting, a Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship,
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