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A juvenile court judge in Fairfax County, Va., rules suspected Washington-area sniper John Lee Malvo can be tried as an adult for the murder of an FBI analyst in a Home Depot parking lot. He and another suspect are implicated in 12 other fatal shootings. Wednesday's ruling makes Malvo, 17, eligible for the death penalty. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports that the Bridgestone/Firestone company is blaming a faulty tire design and manufacturing processes at an Illinois factory for defective tires linked to 148 traffic deaths. After a four-month investigation, the tire maker cited the design of the 15-inch ATX tires and the unique way the rubber was processed at its Decatur, Illinois, plant. But the report also puts some blame on the Ford Explorer. Many of the accidents involved Explorers fitted with the Firestone tires. The report says Ford's recommended pressure for the tires was too low.

Joshua Levs reports that authorities in DeKalb County, Ga., are conducting their largest investigation ever into the murder of Derwin Brown. Brown was the sheriff-elect when he was gunned down in his driveway in December, three days before he would have taken office. Brown had promised to overhaul operations at the county jail, which he called a cesspool of corruption. Thirty-six detectives are on the case, but so far no murder suspects have been named. Three men have been charged with lying to investigators.

Astronaut Shannon Lucid -- who is aboard the Mir space station -- set a new U.S. space endurance record today. And because the space shuttle that was to retrieve her has been grounded, she'll stay in space until mid-Spetember. We'll hear excerpts of a space-to-ground news conference in which she describes how it has been possible for her to spend nearly four months in orbit... and how she feels about her flight being extended another month and a half.

to Bosnia. They will remain beyond the original December 20th deadline for implementing the Dayton peace accords. The administration says the new troops are needed to protect the withdrawal of the 15,000 U.S. troops already there.

NPR'S Jon Greenberg reports that federal officials said today that they had broken a major Mexican-Columbian drug ring with the arrests and indictments of dozens of drug dealers, couriers and traffickers. Twenty nine indictments were unsealed in Chicago and Midland, Texas, and 15 of those indicted were arrested today in several large U.S. cities. Federal authorities said dozens of earlier arrests were related to the ring, which transported cocaine from Colombia, over the U.S.-Mexican border and across the United States.

Members of the House and Senate conference comittee today announced their agreement on the final version of a counter-terrorism bill. The legislation makes it easier to deport terrorists, bans terrorist groups from fund-raising in the U.S., provides extra funding for police efforts, and requires some explosives to be tagged. It also limits court appeals by death row inmates. The final bill restores a number of items which the Clinton administration favored that had passed the Senate but had been removed in the House. Both houses are expected to vote this week. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Last week, officials appeared to have lost a chance to strike a blow against the country's leading drug lord. A Mexico City newspaper found that no one in his organization was detained...but federal officials DID arrest local and state police officers who had been hired as a security force.

- Old passions from the American civil war have been reignited by a battle between Georgia and New York over Georgia's state flag. James Argroves of Peach State Public Radio reports that New York, which flies the flags of other states as a courtesy, ordered the Georgia flag, with its confederate motif, to be lowered, saying it is a symbol of racial hatred and oppresion. Georgia has retaliated by lowering the New York flag, and Argroves says the psychological chasm between the two states isn't likely to be resolved soon.

new proposal to cut income taxes by 15-percent over six years, which he says can be done while also balancing the budget. Dole's argument drew serious disagreement from skeptics, who say the $$548 billion in tax cuts Dole proposes would raise rather than reduce the federal budget deficit.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on Attorney General Janet Reno's order to release a Palestinian, who had been jailed for three years. His case is one of several in which the evidence was kept secret for national security reasons. Lawyers protested that the defendants didn't have enough information to defend themselves. In this case, Mazen Al-Najjar, was held in a Florida jail but not charged with any crime. The government has claimed he has links to Middle Eastern terrorists. He is in the country illegally. His student visa expired years ago.

Several hundred people, including many current and retired FBI agents, marched to the White House today, voicing their strong opposition to a petition for executive clemency that has reached President Clinton's desk. The petition request is for Native American activist Leonnard Peltier who is serving two life terms for the killing of two FBI agents at Pine Ridge 25 years ago. Over the years, Peltier has become a cause celebre who supporters believe he did not commit the crimes and that he has become a scapegoat. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

Ten of Wall Street's top brokerage firms agree to pay fines of about $1.5 billion to settle conflict-of-interest allegations. The firms were accused of misleading investors with bad research, and have agreed to changes in their research divisions. Hear NPR's Jim Zarroli, NPR's Michele Norris and Columbia University law professor John Coffee.

President Biden set a goal of 70% of U.S. adults at least partially vaccinated by July 4. The White House is acknowledging Tuesday that it will likely come up short of that.

Nipah virus, known to spread from bats to human, has broken out in the state of Kerala. Here's what we know about the current cases and the ongoing efforts to quash this potentially fatal disease.

Javier Sierra's new The Master of the Prado follows a graduate student — also named Javier — who gets caught up in a web of arcane theories about the paintings in the famous Madrid museum.

Equally optimistic and concerned, the longtime television news anchor — now a Facebook phenomenon — has written a book that doesn't hide his love of country.

The British author talked to NPR about The Book of Dust, his return to the world of Lyra Belacqua and armored bears, the first volume of which will be published in October.

The bill would allow religious chaplains of all denominations to act as counselors in K-12 schools in Florida.

In the second part of our story about WHER, the nation's first all-girl radio station, we hear how the station evolved from all-music to a more news and talk driven format, as the world changed around them.

Those relying on the federal government's safety net are grandmothers, the kid next door, your supermarket cashier — maybe even you.

Hospitals are preparing for how to handle mass shootings in case the next one is in their backyard. One difficult call is whether to lockdown the facility, which can have emotional consequences.

Teju Cole's latest book describes a young New York doctor's visit back to his Nigerian hometown, where he encounters a Clockwork Orange world of misery and corruption.

A year into Russia's war in Ukraine, China is treading a fine line in the conflict. The Biden administration says it's concerned China might give Russia "lethal support" for its campaign in Ukraine.

Marianne Power decided to read one self-help book a month, for a year — and follow the advice in each, to the letter. She says it became a much more intense undertaking than she'd anticipated.