The episode delivers a rapid-fire news update on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, a Democratic Senate candidate’s abrupt withdrawal in Maine, a near-collapse of a Manhattan high-rise, a massive Colorado wildfire, and a European heat wave linked to climate change, closing with sports and a p
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