This NPR News segment highlights escalating geopolitical tensions involving Iran, ongoing violence in the Russia-Ukraine war, shifts in U.S. reproductive health decisions post-Roe, rising travel and entertainment costs, and a resurgence of black lung disease among coal miners. The episode
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