This NPR News broadcast covers multiple breaking news stories, including a deadly 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Colombia, a $2.1 trillion U.S. federal deficit projection, President Trump’s controversial executive order on childhood vaccines, and a fatal industrial explosion in Pennsylvania
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