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First-time claims for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week as layoffs remain at historically healthy levels.

The Labor Department says jobless claims rose 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 212,000.

That's in line with economists' expectations.

Well, many economists don't expect to see big changes in prices at the grocery store after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's sweeping tariffs last week.

That's because the administration has many tools to keep tariffs in place, as NPR's James Dubeck reports.

A mama bear and her triplet cubs were caught on camera, all cozy, underneath a cabin in Lake Tahoe, California.

The Bear League says Rose slipped in sometime last month to give birth, and that once the cubs were born, they have to stay put because moving them would endanger the babies.

They will be there until the spring when the cubs should weigh between 5 to 7 pounds.

I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

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and Iranian officials are meeting in Geneva today for the third round of indirect talks over Tehran's nuclear program in what could be a last chance to avert war.

This has President Trump built up the U.S.

military presence in the Middle East.

And here's Jane Araf has more from Amman, Jordan.

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NPR's Jane Araf reporting.

But Iran says it won't give up its ballistic missile weapons, saying they are part of its national defense.

Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Oversight Committee today, part of its investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.