This NPR News segment covers a series of urgent global and domestic developments, from a deadly earthquake in Venezuela and the diaspora’s relief response, to China overtaking the U.S. in academic research dominance, a sharp drop in U.S. healthcare enrollment due to soaring premiums, Cape
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