This NPR News segment covers a series of current events including escalating U.S.-China trade tensions, a federal crackdown on Medicaid fraud, renewed debate over the origins of the COVID-19 virus, the confirmation of a new Federal Reserve chair, a wildlife disease outbreak, changes to Wo
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