This NPR News broadcast covers a series of urgent global developments, including Iran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, escalating Russia-Ukraine attacks on civilian infrastructure, deadly wildfires across North America, a fatal boat crash in New York Harbor, Typhoon Dolphin’s landf
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