This NPR News segment covers multiple breaking international and domestic stories, including U.S. military action in the Strait of Hormuz, catastrophic flooding in Nepal and the Grand Canyon, a trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada involving symbolic renaming of Lake Ontario, the ongo
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