The episode covers escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, wildfire crises in the Pacific Northwest, a deadly attack at a Berlin pride parade, and a young innovator preserving the Ojibwe language through robotics, while also highlighting FBI cooperation with China and a major Ford recall.
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