This NPR News update covers a rapid escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions following Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, retaliatory U.S. airstrikes, and the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham and actor Sam Neill, alongside extreme weather and international fires
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