This NPR News broadcast covers breaking international conflicts involving U.S.-Iran tensions and Israel-Hezbollah clashes, domestic political ad spending on AI data centers, a deadly natural disaster in Nepal, a fatal Greek air show crash, advances in lung cancer treatment, and a surprise
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