This NPR News segment covers breaking political developments in Maine’s Senate race, escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, a new federal youth savings program, the release of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation award, an Ebola outbreak in Congo, and rising gas prices tied to geopolitical conflict. The
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