This NPR News segment covers a series of urgent geopolitical, legal, and public health developments, including the expiration of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire deadline, escalating military strain on U.S. naval forces, anti-war repression in Russia, rising vaccine exemptions in U.S. schools, and A
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