This NPR News episode delivers a high-stakes update on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions amid military strikes and disrupted oil shipping, while also covering a teen school shooter’s guilty plea, a major media merger delay, a new U.S.-Canada bridge amid diplomatic friction, coral bleaching in
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