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Brian Beals was convicted in the 1988 murder of a 6-year-old. At the time, Beals, a 22-year-old student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, was home in Chicago during Thanksgiving break.

The captain of the 6,852-ton ferry has been criticized for allowing 30 minutes to pass before giving an evacuation order. He has been arrested, even as a recovery effort continues.

Stocks fell sharply across the globe on Monday, as worries about the U.S. economy triggered a worldwide sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 1,000 points or 2.6%.

Larry Householder's arrest is tied to a racketeering conspiracy, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor's office said. Four others, including Ohio's former GOP chairman, were also arrested.

More than 500 companies submitted applications for 6.5 million vaping products to the FDA. The agency ruled on some of them but did not yet make a decision on products made by Juul.

A leaked CDC document compared it to the highly contagious children's disease. Data does not support this claim. Nonetheless, the variant is one of the world's most contagious respiratory diseases.

The U.S. economy grew 6.5% pace in the April-June quarter, continuing to strengthen from the worst of the pandemic. A slowdown is inevitable; the question is how much it will slow.

His parents traveled 15 hours by bus to bring him to a clinic to save his life. He weighed 6 pounds. And he could be one of the fortunate ones.

The U.S. stock of flu vaccine was cut nearly in half Tuesday as Britain shut down a major vaccine supplier. Facing a record shortage, authorities are urging healthy Americans to defer getting shots so that medication will be available for those most at risk. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Dr. Jerry Avorn of the Harvard Medical School.

Can you call the events of Jan. 6 an insurgency? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling what he thinks based on his experiences in Iraq.