This episode of NPR News covers a series of breaking international and domestic developments, including the aftermath of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, escalating military exchanges between Iran and the U.S., a Senate nomination shift in Maine
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