This NPR News segment covers escalating geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran, worsening climate-driven heatwaves in Southern Europe, a surging Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, wildfire evacuations in Utah, and public Catholic opinion on U.S. political tensions with the Pope, al
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