This NPR News segment covers multiple global flashpoints, including escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, political interference in U.S. cultural institutions, youth-led protests in India, coral bleaching in Florida due to extreme heat, and the deepening Ukraine-Russia-North Korea conflict. The
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