This NPR News episode covers multiple breaking stories, including a foiled terrorist plot in the UK targeting a U.S.-used air base amid tensions with Iran, a deadly nor'easter on the East Coast, rising fuel prices across the U.S., new relaxed fuel economy standards under the Trump adminis
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