This NPR News segment covers a range of pressing global and domestic issues, including diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, worsening heat waves across the U.S., growing reliance on AI for personal finance, a deepening water crisis in Puerto Rico, an upcoming solar eclipse,
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