This NPR News segment covers a range of urgent national and international issues, including escalating U.S. military tensions with Iran amid drone attacks, a congressional defense budget review, a Red Sea shipping blockade threat by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a cyclospora foodborne illness ou
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