Louise Schiavone

Jim Beam is owned by Japan-based Suntory Holdings.

The company's larger distillery in Boston, Kentucky, will continue operations, and the Claremont site will continue to serve as a warehouse and bottling operation and restaurant and visitor center.

wine and spirits business has been struggling with declining alcohol consumption, especially in the post-pandemic era.

I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.

Police in Providence, Rhode Island say the man suspected of killing two and wounding nine others during a shooting at Brown University is

is 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, a former Brown student and a native of Portugal.

He's been found dead from suicide in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire.

In Boston, meanwhile, U.S.

Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah Foley says Valente is also believed to be the killer of MIT professor Nuno Lauriero in Massachusetts.

Foley says police connected the two crimes through a rental vehicle that Valenti was seen in in both places.

A jury has found Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing immigration agents as they attempted to arrest an undocumented defendant outside her courtroom last April.

Mayan Silver from member station WUWM reports.

A series of actions announced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

could essentially ban gender-affirming care for youth all over the country.

As NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports, proposed new regulations threaten to withhold federal funding from hospitals.

that provide gender-affirming care to minors.

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In eastern Colorado yesterday, hurricane-force winds took down power lines and intensified wildfires along the Colorado Front Range and onto the Great Plains.

Facing gusts of up to 100 miles an hour, Xcel Energy cut off power in the area to avert a downed line sparking additional blazes.