Today's Takeaways: A Senate Showdown, Change in Iran, and American Originality

An woman passes by a mural on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran. Militant students stormed the U.S. embassy on November 4, 1979, and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
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