This NPR News broadcast covers multiple urgent global and domestic stories, including U.S. envoy Jared Kushner’s diplomatic efforts in Israel and Egypt to shape a post-war Gaza, a deadly hurricane in Hawaii, Midwest flooding, a fatal lightning strike on Mount Etna, and the aftermath of a
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