This NPR News episode delivers a rapid-fire sequence of current events, highlighting President Trump's controversial $1 billion crypto earnings contrasted with investor losses, a slowing jobs market, extreme heat risks amplified by climate change, a deadly bombing in Damascus, vandalism a
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