This NPR News broadcast covers a surge in geopolitical tensions as Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz and clashes with a commercial vessel, prompting U.S. military retaliation, while also highlighting domestic political shifts in Maine and immigrant rights activism in Houston after a fatal
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