This NPR News episode delivers urgent updates on international wildfires, a terrorist attack in Berlin, the 100-day countdown to U.S. midterm elections, financial market volatility, military actions involving Ukraine and Iran, and Israeli raids in the West Bank. It underscores the interco
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