This NPR News segment covers a series of breaking global and domestic developments: the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei amid rising anti-American sentiment, President Trump’s July 4th speech framing progressive politics as a communist threat, worsening wildfir
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