NPR reports on escalating U.S. foreign policy tensions with Saudi Arabia and Iran over nuclear and military threats, new tariffs on Brazilian goods, domestic weather emergencies, and a controversial Israeli prison proposal involving crocodiles, alongside the upcoming drug trafficking tria
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