This NPR News broadcast covers multiple escalating global and domestic crises, including a renewed U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions with Iran, China’s economic slowdown, a controversial pause in ICE traffic stops following fatal encounters, and New York
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