This NPR News segment covers multiple current events, including President Trump’s shift to economic pressure on Iran, ongoing power outages in northwest Indiana after severe storms, an American driver’s victory at a new IndyCar race in Washington, D.C., a human-caused wildfire in Reno, a
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