Louise Schiavone

Now a new study finds that rising measles cases come with significant human and economic costs.

NPR's Maria Godoy has that story.

On Wall Street, the Dow closed up 317.

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The International Monetary Fund is warning that the Iran war is likely to push global economic growth lower than last year to a 3.1% rate below a first predicted 3.3%.

After years of financial struggles, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts will close at the end of 2026.

From GBH in Boston, Kirk Carapessa reports, the decision comes as hundreds of other private colleges face tough financial decisions.

Christie's Auction House in Paris conducted a raffle offering the prize of a million-dollar Picasso portrait.

120,000 tickets were sold worldwide.

Now a Parisian man has won a 1941 Picasso entitled Head of a Woman.

Raffle proceeds go to Alzheimer's Research.

It's the third...

won Picasso for a hundred euros lottery with previous raffles supporting cultural and humanitarian causes.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.

There were fresh indications today that the U.S.

and Iran are working toward resumed talks to avert new hostilities in the U.S.-Israel war on Iran.

Meanwhile, U.S.

Central Command says that no ships have gotten all the way through the Strait of Hormuz.

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