This NPR News segment delivers urgent updates on a high-profile federal court hearing for Luigi Maggioni, the release of an American missionary kidnapped in Niger, the economic fallout of U.S. military actions in Iran, a controversial Kennedy Center renovation plan under a Trump-aligned b
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