This NPR News segment delivers a sweeping update on critical national and international developments, from deteriorating conditions aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier deployed in the Iran conflict to a surge in U.S. executions, a federal lawsuit over anti-Semitism at Harvard, and Europe’s int
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