This NPR News segment covers a series of current events including intensified U.S. economic pressure on Iran, the arrest of a Navy sailor’s father by immigration authorities, a fast-moving wildfire in Nevada, New Zealand’s proposed ban on social media for under-16s, and an IndyCar race in
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