This NPR News episode covers a series of breaking developments: a U.S.-Iran military escalation in the Middle East, new appointments in U.S. foreign aid policy, growing bipartisan opposition to Flock surveillance cameras over privacy concerns, structural decay at the Kennedy Center, and a
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