This episode of NPR's 'Up First' covers four major news stories: a foiled attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner targeting Trump administration officials, escalating Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities despite a fragile ceasefire, unsafe drinking water conditions reported by detainees
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