This NPR News broadcast covers breaking developments in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Italy, a new student loan interest rate incentive, and Juneteenth commemorations across the U.S., while ending with a teaser for the narrative podcast *This Amer
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