This NPR News segment covers a series of urgent political, public health, and international developments, including Alabama's controversial redistricting, a claimed U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, a Hanta virus outbreak on a cruise ship, infrastructure delays in Atlanta
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