This NPR News broadcast covers multiple ongoing international and domestic crises, including the six-month U.S.-Iran conflict with no clear path to peace, escalating wildfires in France and Spain displacing over 300,000 people, political maneuvering in Maine ahead of the midterms, the ret
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