This NPR News segment covers a series of urgent global and domestic developments, including a U.S. military operation to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid Iranian attacks, a Supreme Court intervention on abortion pill access, Elon Musk’s settlement with the SEC, AI use in wildfire preventi
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