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episode 2298: State Of The Union Preview, Alabama IVF Protections, Israel's Wartime Society
President Biden gives his election-year State of the Union address tonight as polls show him trailing former President Donald Trump. Alabama passes a law protecting in vitro fertilization clinics from civil and criminal liability. And how Israel's fractious society has been united by the war in Gaza, five months in.
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