Nora Rahm

It grew to hundreds of stores and outfitted the first American to climb Mount Everest.

I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced he's taking a sudden trip to Washington, D.C.

to meet with President Trump this week.

NPR's Daniel Estrin reports this comes as the U.S.

holds talks with Iran.

The Pentagon says it's cutting ties with Harvard University.

NPR's Shondelise Duster has more in the story.

The CDC reports at least eight more children in the U.S.

have died from the flu this season.

NPR's Rob Stein has more.

In Japan, preliminary results show the party of Prime Minister Sanae Takeuchi won a two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament today.

This will allow her to overcome objections to her policies from the upper house.

This is NPR News.

Voters in Portugal are selecting a new president today.

It's a runoff election between a center-left socialist candidate and a hard-right populist.

Polls suggest the socialist will prevail.

He's campaigned as a moderate who can work with the center-right government.

At the Winter Olympics in Italy, the U.S.