This NPR News broadcast covers multiple urgent developments: escalating U.S.-Iran tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, a major antitrust lawsuit blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, New York’s unprecedented moratorium on AI data centers, ongoing issues with the Lincoln Mem
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