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 pause fighting between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be holding.

NPR's Kat-Lonstorf reports from southern Lebanon.

Looking south from a hill atop the village of Majdal-Zun, 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 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

to that occupation. Kat Lansdorf, NPR News, Majd al-Zun 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. J. Batacharya 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 Kals, has fined three political candidates for

betting on their own campaigns. NPR's Bobby Allen reports concerns are growing in Washington

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