This NPR News segment covers a series of current events, including the narrow Senate confirmation of Todd Blanche as Attorney General, the one-year anniversary of a deadly anti-CDC shooting in Atlanta, worsening wildfires in Utah, a diplomatic rift between Spain and Italy over border cont
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