This NPR News broadcast covers multiple international and domestic developments, including heightened tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, Vice President J.D. Vance’s diplomatic mission to Iran, political infighting among Senate Republicans, a worsening Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, a m
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