The episode covers a series of breaking news developments including a U.S.-Canada trade war escalation, ongoing geopolitical tensions with Iran, rising dangers for European firefighters due to unexploded WWII-era ordnance, increasing violence against nurses in U.S. hospitals, the cancella
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