NPR News: 01-23-2025 8PM EST

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U.S. financial markets closed mostly higher, with the broad market notching another record high today in hopes of falling interest rates. The S&P 500 gained 32 points. You're listening to NPR. Members of the powerful Sackler family who own Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma and the company itself are agreeing to pay out $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful opioid painkiller.