This NPR News segment covers multiple breaking news stories, including the extended deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln amid deteriorating crew conditions, severe flooding in the Midwest, a deadly earthquake in Colombia, Hurricane Lula approaching Hawaii, strong summer box office return
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