This NPR News broadcast covers a series of breaking global and domestic developments, including escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, deadly floods in Nepal and the Grand Canyon, inflation trends at the Minnesota State Fair, the Tupac murder trial, and shifts in U.S. education policy around scre
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