This NPR News segment covers escalating U.S.-Iran tensions marked by renewed airstrikes and a controversial naval blockade, the political aftermath of Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death with his sister appointed to his Senate seat, and the rollback of a Trump administration proposal to
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