This NPR News segment covers a series of escalating geopolitical and domestic developments, including Iranian drone attacks on Bahrain, U.S. retaliatory strikes, deadly earthquakes in Venezuela, and contentious U.S. policy debates over religious liberty, education, gun rights, health care
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