This NPR News segment covers multiple current events, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s rebuttal of mental health and supply issues aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Israeli banks threatening to cut off Palestinian financial institutions, political controversy over Trump-related re
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