This NPR News episode delivers a global snapshot of urgent developments: explosive devices near a U.S.-used UK military base tied to strikes on Iran, ongoing fuel price pressures from the conflict, a deadly nor'easter flooding the Northeast, Alaska’s beloved Fat Bear Week, and the diploma
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