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The images tell a tale of widespread and deadly hurricane damage that's nearly impossible to comprehend fully from the ground level.

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%.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Facebook's Oversight Board sent the decision of whether to let the former president back on the platform back to the company itself, and it's a critical one for Trump's political future.

Previous reporting from BTPM NPR found the City of Buffalo spent just 12% of a budgeted $1.6 million for arts and anti-violence groups over 5 years, and the city has not been following procedures laid out in local law to disperse the cash.