This NPR News segment covers a range of domestic and international developments, including President Trump’s political activities in Texas, CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s controversial visit to Moscow, the death of war criminal Ratko Mladić, a deadly natural disaster in Nepal and Tibet, a
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