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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Israel and Lebanon are set to hold a second round of talks in Washington tomorrow. A 10-day ceasefire that has paused fighting between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be holding. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports from southern Lebanon.
Looking south from a hill atop the village of Majdalzoun, you can see an Israeli flag waving in the wind over the neighboring Lebanese village. Israel is still occupying a large swath of land in Lebanon's south, including dozens of towns and villages. Hezbollah spokesperson Salman Harb tells NPR that the Iran-backed group does not agree with direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. But if the result of the negotiations is that Israel will withdraw from the Lebanese land, Harb says, then we're fine with that. But on the other hand, he says, if the land remains occupied, it's our right to resist that occupation. Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Majdal Zoon, in southern Lebanon.
A routine annual paper about COVID-19 vaccines by staff at the CDC has been blocked. NPR's Ping Huang reports on the unusual move.
Every spring, after the winter peaks of cold and flu, the CDC reports on how well seasonal vaccines worked. For those who got them, how much less likely were they to get hospitalized or to die from the disease? This March, CDC staff published a paper on flu vaccine effectiveness in the agency's flagship weekly publication, and they plan to do the same for the COVID vaccine. But Acting Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya held the COVID paper for weeks. Now, the planned publication has been canceled. The stoppage was first reported in the Washington Post and confirmed by Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services. Nixon cited concerns about how the paper estimates vaccine effectiveness, even though the CDC's methodology has been the same for years.
Ping Huang, NPR News.
The popular prediction market site Kalshi has fined three political candidates for betting on their own campaigns. NPR's Bobby Allen reports concerns are growing in Washington over insider trading on the apps.
Kalshi fined a Texas House candidate, a Minnesota state senator, and a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia. The sites say all three placed bets on their own political campaigns, which violates Kalshi's rules against insider trading. The enforcement actions were announced as state and federal lawmakers vowed to crack down on political insiders profiting off of insider information. Billions of dollars are traded every week on Kalshi and PolyMarket, The prediction market sites say they self-police for abuse. Observers of the industry fear foreign actors or campaign insiders could try to use the midterm elections as an opportunity to manipulate the markets or turn internal data into profit. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
At the close on Wall Street, the Dow was up 340 points. This is NPR. A tech billionaire has donated more than $100 million to one of the most visited museums in the United States. NPR's Netta Ulibi reports the gift is intended to loan art, owned by the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., to smaller museums around the country.
This gift comes at a challenging moment for American museums. Tourism is down. Federal funding has been cut. And ever since President Trump started targeting museums as, quote, the last remaining segment of woke, corporations have been cautious about philanthropy. But now, the National Gallery has announced that a wealthy art collector and entrepreneur named Mitchell P. Rails, who used to run its board of trustees, will help some of the museum's most important works be seen at regional museums starting next year. The National Gallery owns nearly 200,000 works of art, including major pieces by the likes of Claude Monet and Georgia O'Keeffe. The costs of shipping, insuring, and installing such art are staggering, but bringing these works to museums across the U.S.
can help draw local visitors and support. Netta Ulibi, NPR News.
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