This NPR News segment covers a range of current events, from deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln affecting Navy morale and retention, to a Ukrainian cultural festival in Milwaukee reflecting renewed hope amid war, a deadly earthquake in Indonesia, the death of legendar
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