Ryland Barton

It would create a path for drug makers to commercialize treatments without conducting large clinical trials.

It's a shift long sought by patients and researchers focused on rare diseases, which often don't fit within the pharmaceutical industry's business model.

And the public library in Richland, Washington State, is thanking a patron for returning a biography of Henry Forde,

64 years after the due date, the man who returned the book says he found it in a collection given to him by a friend.

There's a second library book in the collection, which the man says he'll return once he's done reading it.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.

Snow continues to fall over parts of New England, while the rest of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states dig out from under as much as two and a half feet of snow in some places.

Reporter Steve Kastenbaum is in New York, where cleanup from the blizzard is in full swing.

American consumers have been paying some of the cost of Trump, the Trump administration's tariffs.

Now the Supreme Court has struck down many of those tariffs, but as NPR's Stephen Basaja reports, customers are unlikely to get their money back.

JPMorgan Chase is acknowledging that it closed some of President Trump's bank accounts in 2021 after the January 6 attacks on the U.S.

Capitol.

NPR's Maria Aspin has more.

Canada's foreign minister says her country is working on an aid package for Cuba as it faces blackouts and fuel shortages worsened by a U.S.

oil embargo.

Canada would join Mexico in providing aid.

Canadian tourism is vital to Cuba's economy.

This is NPR News.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for billions of dollars in damages linked to climate change.