This NPR News episode covers a series of global developments, including Iranian missile attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan in retaliation for a U.S. strike on Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz, deadly flash floods in Nepal and Tibet with 85 Americans missing, and a fatal flood at the Gr
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