This NPR News segment covers a series of breaking global and domestic developments, including the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei amid rising tensions following U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, the cancellation of Washington’s Independence Day parade due to extreme he
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