This episode of NPR News covers escalating U.S.-Iran tensions amid 13 consecutive nights of airstrikes, congressional debate over war powers, and a $15 million bounty for intelligence on an Iranian missile-linked conglomerate. It also reports on the Justice Department dropping subpoenas a
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