The episode covers multiple urgent national and global stories, including deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid a prolonged deployment in the Iran conflict, a controversial push by the Kennedy Center’s Trump-aligned board to rename and renovate the arts complex, shi
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