The episode delivers a rapid-fire sequence of global news updates from NPR, covering military escalation between the U.S. and Iran, a devastating earthquake in Venezuela, Ukraine’s largest drone offensive against Russia to date, a controversial decision by Texas to mandate Bible stories i
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