NPR's live news broadcast covers multiple major stories on the U.S. 250th birthday, including President Trump's patriotic celebration at Mount Rushmore and Washington, D.C., a growing wildfire crisis in the West, the funeral of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ongoing recover
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