This NPR News episode covers a series of high-stakes geopolitical, economic, and social developments, including new U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, escalating U.S.-Iran tensions under President Trump, a soldier’s death in Iraq, Arizona’s pivotal primary elections, the unresolved death of
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