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News Wrap: White House warns Iran against retaliation

Season 2024 Episode 103 | 4m 43s

In our news wrap Thursday, the White House said it warned Iran not to use a suspected Israeli airstrike on its consulate in Syria as a 'pretext to escalate' tensions in the region, Ukraine's parliament passed a new mobilization law to boost its military ranks amid recent Russian advances and federal authorities in California charged Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter with bank fraud.

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