This episode of NPR News Now delivers a rapid-fire update on global and domestic developments, highlighting escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv, California's new wildfire safety rules, the nation’s soaring $40 trillion debt, new testimony in the Tupac murder tria
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