This NPR News segment delivers urgent updates on escalating U.S.-Iran hostilities, the human cost of war, a surprise political shift in the UK, a widespread cyclospora outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce, federal plans to expand oil and gas drilling in Ohio, a major Hollywood merger b
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