This NPR News episode delivers a snapshot of urgent global developments, including a U.S. military strike on a commercial vessel near Iran, a deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, a controversial review of a 1979 EEOC rule on affirmative action, Hollywood's resurgence through YouTube-bo
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