This NPR News broadcast covers multiple international crises and developments, including a deadly landslide in Nepal affecting Americans, a diplomatic spat between the U.S. and Canada over tariffs and a symbolic renaming of Lake Ontario, the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telesc
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