This NPR News segment covers multiple urgent global and domestic stories, including a deadly flood on the Nepal-China border trapping hundreds of workers, undercounted heat-related deaths in the U.S., the Met’s cancellation of a John Galliano exhibit due to his past hate speech, George Sa
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