This NPR News episode covers multiple international and domestic developments, including a controversial U.S. oil deal in Venezuela, escalating U.S.-Canada tensions over Lake Ontario, deadly Russian strikes in Ukraine, the upcoming launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and a
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