This NPR News episode covers a series of breaking political, economic, and cultural developments, including U.S.-Germany military tensions, the sudden collapse of Spirit Airlines, voting disruptions in Louisiana due to a Supreme Court ruling, the legal battle over abortion pill access, an
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