The episode delivers a rapid-fire update on global and domestic developments, focusing on a deadly natural disaster in Nepal, a legal and political dispute over renaming the Kennedy Center, a controversial U.S. beef import policy, a precautionary scientific evacuation in Antarctica, and a
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