This NPR News segment covers a series of urgent national and international stories, including wildfire-related 4th of July restrictions in Colorado, an FBI investigation into Georgia’s 2020 election records, an early surge in West Nile virus cases across the U.S., Pope Leo’s symbolic visi
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