This NPR News segment covers a series of breaking developments: President Trump’s claim over the Strait of Hormuz, economic fallout in Iran, U.S. inflation and market trends, a high-profile legal sentencing, the release of an American missionary from Niger, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s refusal
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