This NPR News update covers breaking political and international developments, including Mitch McConnell’s health update after a fall, the unexpected death of Senator Lindsey Graham, a deadly shooting at a Toronto festival, a fatal fire in a Bangkok pub, Ukraine’s prime minister stepping
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