This NPR News live update covers a series of breaking developments: escalating U.S.-Iran tensions with the ninth consecutive night of U.S. strikes and the death of a third American service member, a retracted FDA warning on Taco Bell lettuce linked to cyclospora, Spain’s victory over Arge
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