This NPR News episode covers escalating violence in Lebanon, a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire deal, a legal battle over reproductive health funding, a groundbreaking archaeological discovery of ancient plague DNA, and political developments in the UK, alongside a brief cultural note on Junet
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