The episode delivers urgent updates on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions in the Middle East, a controversial paid news service on Trump’s Truth Social platform raising insider trading concerns, extreme heat and wildfire threats across the western U.S. and southern Europe, diplomatic shifts in
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