This NPR News hour covers a surge in U.S.-Iran tensions with nine straight nights of military strikes, the political upheaval in the U.K. as Keir Starmer is replaced by Andy Burnham, Argentina’s emotional World Cup loss to Spain, a deadly earthquake in Peru, Christopher Nolan’s box office
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