This NPR News episode covers escalating U.S.-Iran tensions following deadly attacks in Jordan, backlash over Canadian wildfire smoke affecting the U.S., a controversial ICE shooting in Maine involving an officer with a history of mental health and violent behavior, a deadly landslide in C
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