This NPR News episode covers multiple international and domestic developments, including escalating tensions between Iran and the U.S. over the Strait of Hormuz, a foiled terrorist plot targeting a U.S.-used British airbase, severe coastal flooding from a stalled nor'easter in the Northea
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