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A car crash killed six young people, including a 1-year-old infant, after they were ejected from their vehicle early Sunday on a freeway in middle Tennessee, authorities said.

After delays, Republicans roll out a pandemic relief bill. MLB postpones three games after a coronavirus outbreak. And the pandemic is overwhelming public health capacity in many states.

The White House COVID-19 Response Team said Friday that while this week's storm affected deliveries to all 50 states, it is confident it can make up the backlog within the next week.

Scott Simon talks with Capitol police officer Harry Dunn about some of the revelations coming out of the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

The shortlisted titles include novels and novellas from authors and translators spanning four continents, with stories that range from Japanese-controlled 1930s Taiwan to the streets of Tehran in 1979.

Journeys — near and far, into the past and even into near space — are the subject of the novels, memoirs and narrative histories that make up critic Maureen Corrigan's summer reading list.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California, about this week's Jan. 6 hearing. It's the committee's first since July.

"For most people, Jan. 6 happened for a few hours," U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell said in the select committee hearing. "But for those of us who were in the thick of it, it has not ended."

The U.S. has now placed 13 nations under varying travel bans. The new policy restricts immigrant visas for citizens of Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Eritrea, Myanmar, and Kyrgyzstan.