This NPR News segment covers a series of breaking developments involving U.S.-Iran tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, domestic political shifts in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, a high-profile EEOC lawsuit against the New York Times over hiring practices, a controversial Pentagon strike in
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