The episode covers escalating U.S.-Iran tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump’s threat of tariffs over Canadian wildfire smoke, a FIFA World Cup reception, rising U.S. fuel prices, the impending exile of Cuban dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, and a cyclospora outbreak
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