This NPR News segment covers key developments ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, including a Supreme Court decision pending on mail-in voting restrictions, rising fuel prices due to geopolitical tensions with Iran, a regional diplomatic meeting on the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. push to ex
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