This episode of NPR News and a segment from This American Life deliver updates on escalating Middle East tensions, a deadly earthquake in Venezuela, a plane crash in Beijing, and a major fraud case arrest, followed by a brief shift to a human-interest mystery about missing pants. The repo
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