This episode of NPR's Up First delivers a rapid-fire update on major global and domestic news, highlighting the dismissal of charges against a man accused of vandalizing D.C.'s reflecting pool amid claims of government overreach, a fractured Israel-Hamas ceasefire proposal, deadly Russi
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