This NPR News episode covers a series of breaking developments: a deadly Russian missile strike on Kyiv, the Trump administration’s rollback on legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children, cyberattacks on U.S. water facilities linked to Iran, Trump’s criticism of the DOJ over a dropped v
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