This NPR News episode delivers a snapshot of urgent national and international stories, including deteriorating sailor morale on the USS Abraham Lincoln, escalating settler violence in the West Bank, a record-breaking cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to public health cuts, and wildfire dest
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