This NPR News segment covers a series of breaking political, health, environmental, and cultural developments, with a focus on Senator Bill Cassidy’s primary loss due to his impeachment vote against Trump, a drone strike at the UAE’s nuclear plant, a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC, and cli
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