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This NPR News broadcast covers multiple international and domestic crises, including a deadly earthquake in Venezuela, ongoing Ukraine-Russia attacks targeting energy infrastructure, fatal wildfires in the U.S. West, and a deadly militant surge in Pakistan, while also highlighting dramati
This NPR News broadcast covers multiple international and domestic crises, including a deadly earthquake in Venezuela, ongoing Ukraine-Russia attacks targeting energy infrastructure, fatal wildfires in the U.S. West, and a deadly militant surge in Pakistan, while also highlighting dramati
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