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Biden’s NATO Speech, Ukraine Hospital Strike, Texas Execution Drugs

President Biden spoke to world leaders at the NATO summit in Washington and sought to reassure them about the strength of the alliance and of his Presidency. Ukrainians are condemning a deadly missile strike on a children’s hospital in Kyiv, and an NPR investigation tracked down one source of execution drugs in Texas.

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