This NPR News episode delivers a rapid-fire update on escalating U.S. military action against Iran, a bipartisan push for sweeping Russia sanctions honoring the late Senator Lindsey Graham, a surging cyclosporiasis outbreak centered in Michigan, and Federal Reserve assurances on inflation
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