This NPR News segment covers the economic and geopolitical fallout from the U.S. invasion of Iran and Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rising fuel prices, a series of legal and political developments involving vandalism, protest, and free speech, and the expansion of U.S. space pol
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