Noor Rahm

which is gaining strength in the northern Caribbean.

It now has maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour.

Forecasters expect it to intensify rapidly and become a major hurricane by tomorrow.

Jamaica could see as much as 25 inches of rain, with similar forecasts for southern Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Melissa is the 13th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.

A Picasso painting long hidden from public view has taken Paris by surprise after selling for nearly $37 million at auction.

NPR's Rebecca Rossman reports from Paris.

June Lockhart has died.

She was a popular actress in the 50s and 60s in Lassie and Lost in Space.

Her publicist said she died Thursday of natural causes at her home in California.

June Lockhart was 100 years old.

This is NPR.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Rahm.

President Trump says he's open to meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his trip to Asia.

He's making stops in Malaysia and Japan before arriving in South Korea next week.

NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports.

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is accusing the US of fabricating a war.

He's heard here through a BBC interpreter.

The U.S.

is sending an aircraft carrier strike group to join operations against South American drug traffickers.