This NPR News segment covers high-stakes diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine, an approaching Category 3 hurricane threatening Hawaii, a fractured Democratic Senate race in Michigan, a deadly airport crash involving an Amazon Cargo flight, and new genetic research linking personal
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