This NPR News broadcast covers multiple urgent stories from across the globe, including dangerous heat waves disrupting Fourth of July celebrations in the U.S., deadly wildfires in Colorado claiming the lives of three firefighters, a devastating earthquake in Venezuela overwhelming hospit
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