This NPR News episode covers a series of urgent geopolitical, domestic, and environmental developments, including President Trump’s diplomatic efforts at a NATO summit in Turkey, U.S. military strikes against Iran, a political scandal in Maine, a federal court rebuffing the DOJ’s voter fr
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