This NPR News episode covers urgent political, international, and environmental developments, including a looming U.S. government shutdown, escalating U.S.-Iran tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, a deadly trans-Himalayan tsunami, and the renaming of Lake Ontario amid U.S.-Canada trade disp
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