This episode of NPR News Now delivers a rapid-fire update on global and domestic developments, from surging diesel prices and Wall Street fluctuations to humanitarian crises in the West Bank and the Himalayas, while spotlighting policy responses like Singapore’s sweeping pro-natal incenti
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