This NPR News episode delivers urgent updates on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions following deadly strikes in Jordan, flash floods across the Northeast and Texas, international crackdowns on the prediction market Polymarket, a high-profile hunger strike in India, earthquake devastation in Ve
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