Lakshmi Singh

The Food and Drug Administration is reversing course and will consider approving Moderna's experimental flu shot after all, the decision coming a little more than a week after the agency refused to review the jab.

Here's NPR's Sydney Lepkin.

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Today is Ash Wednesday, when many Christians begin to observe the season of Lent.

NPR's Jason DeRose reports the National Council of Churches is launching a new prayer campaign.

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The Chinese government is denying U.S.

allegations that it had conducted illicit nuclear tests in recent years.

It calls the accusation unfounded.

NPR's Jennifer Pak has the latest from Shanghai.

Ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, still no sign of a breakthrough in the latest U.S.-brokered peace talks.

In Geneva, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umarov told reporters that talks were substantive, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to drag out negotiations while continuing its military assault on his country.

U.S.

stocks are trading higher this hour.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now up 280 points, more than half a percent, at 49,813.

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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

Civil rights pioneer and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson died today following a lengthy illness.

He was 84 years old.

Eddie Glaude Jr., a distinguished professor at Princeton University's Department of African American Studies, credits Jackson with pioneering grassroots equality campaigns that crossed racial boundaries.