This NPR News segment covers a series of global developments following the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes, including his funeral in Tehran amid a fragile ceasefire, a deadly European heat wave, U.S. Independence Day spending trends, U
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