This NPR News segment covers a series of urgent developments: escalating U.S.-Canada trade tensions, Iran's threat of 'seismic' retaliation against new U.S. sanctions, growing unease among National Guard members over prolonged deployment in D.C., British support for Ukraine’s missile prod
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