This NPR News episode covers escalating U.S.-Iran tensions marked by reciprocal airstrikes, a House bill to avert a government shutdown before midterms, New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani’s call for federal enforcement of an ICC arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
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