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Battling a fierce sandstorm, U.S. forces continue their drive north toward Baghdad. The Army's 3rd Infantry Division makes its way within 50 miles of the capital, where it encounters some of the strongest resistance in the six-day campaign. And the U.S. military sends in helicopters to attack an elite Republican Guard division near Baghdad. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

The body of a South Korean hostage beheaded by militants in Iraq is found, a day after the deadline set by his captors for South Korea to cancel a plan to send 3,000 troops to Iraq. The U.S. military says troops found 33-year-old Kim Sun-il's beheaded body Tuesday evening, west of Baghdad. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Emily Harris.

About the time the couple was to walk down the aisle, tornado sirens began to sound. Unfazed, the couple went on with the wedding. The tornado touched down just 3 miles from the church.

The majority of sentences were handed down in just 16 counties last year, out of 3,000 counties in the United States.

With another COVID-19 relief bill awaiting his signature or veto, what's President Trump's end game? A new Congress begins Jan. 3, a new president in 24 days, and millions of Americans are struggling.

Dr. Val Kolpakov set a Guinness World Record with more than 3,000 tubes from all over the world. He told WXIA-TV he began collecting pulled teeth, but decided that toothpaste is "much more exciting."

The group tagged the stork with a mobile phone tracker to follow its migration. It flew some 3,700 miles to Sudan, where someone found the tracker and used the SIM card. The phone bill came to $2,700.

When IKEA employees caught wind of the plan laid out in a Facebook group, they weren't into the idea of 3,000 people hiding in the store so they called the police. Game players were turned away.

The Akron Alliance Fellowship church paid $3,500 for the new unit. The sign outside the church reads: "Whoever stole our AC unit - Keep it. It's hot where you're going."

Hurricane Ike is expected to make landfall — as a Category 3 hurricane — late Friday or early Saturday south of Galveston, Texas. Officials issued a mandatory evacuation order and warned of "certain death" for those who don't leave, but NPR's Ari Shapiro says plenty of people remain.