This NPR News broadcast covers a catastrophic flood in Nepal with over 600 dead and nearly 3,000 missing, ongoing U.S. diplomatic repositioning in the Middle East amid regional conflict, inflation trends influencing Federal Reserve policy, youth reactions to Meta’s new social media restri
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