This NPR News and This American Life broadcast covers a series of urgent global developments—including Iranian missile strikes on U.S. bases, extreme heat in Europe, wildfires in the U.S. Southwest, and escalating violence in the Russia-Ukraine war—alongside a sharp drop in U.S. healthcar
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