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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The United States and Iran have exchanged new strikes as their fight over the Strait of Hormuz intensifies. NPR's Emily Feng reports the attacks continued for a seventh straight night.

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US CENTCOM said it had launched strikes at military and surveillance sites across Iran without specifying the number of targets. Iran alleged the US hit civilian sites as well, including a water desalination plant. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted US military assets in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan in retaliation. Bahrain's defense ministry said it intercepted several Iranian aerial attacks. Kuwait said it had to cancel flights and that one of its power and water desalination plants was hit by an Iranian attack. Earlier, an Iranian news agency said Tehran could go after five key ports in the Middle East hosting US military or commercial interests in retaliation for a US hit on a maritime control tower at an Iranian port in the city of Chabahar. Emily Feng, NPR News.

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President Trump is threatening tariffs against Canada over hazardous wildfire smoke drifting