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NPR News: 05-16-2026 7PM EDT

May 16, 2026·4 min·5-min readnarrativenews
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This NPR News episode covers multiple international and domestic developments, including U.S.-Taiwan-China tensions over a pending $14 billion weapons sale, a DOJ shift on gun rights, civil rights protests in Montgomery, a military diver’s death in the Maldives during a rescue mission, an

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