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Three U.S. soldiers are killed in two separate attacks in Iraq. Two of them died and 13 others were wounded in an overnight mortar attack on a prison complex west of Baghdad. A third soldier was killed when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords announces he won't seek another term, citing his and his wife's health problems. Jeffords shocked his Republican colleagues in 2001 when he left the party to become an independent, briefly swinging control of the Senate to Democrats.

Struggling automaker General Motors announces plans to close nine factories and eliminate 30,000 jobs. The cuts are part of a long-awaited restructuring plan by the world's No. 1 car manufacturer. The United Auto Workers said the cuts would make ongoing talks with the company more difficult.

An Islamist Web site posts video showing militants, led by Abu Musab Zarqawi, beheading a man identified as American contractor Eugene Armstrong. American Jack Hensley and Briton Kenneth Bigley are still held by the group, which demands the release of Iraqi women prisoners. Peter Kenyon reports.

One day before the Sept. 11 commission's report becomes public, the body's leaders brief members of Congress and key members of President Bush's staff. Commissioners gave Congress advance word of some of their recommendations, but not an advance look at the entire report. NPR's David Welna reports.

Growing up without a television at home, cartoonist Kate Wheeler and her brother shared the joys of listening to audiobooks as children.

In softcover fiction, Tracy Chevalier follows an English Quaker across the Atlantic, Herman Koch serves a meal with a hefty helping of unease and Peter Sis brings an ancient flock of birds into the 21st century. In nonfiction, Jared Diamond mines lessons from traditional societies.

President Trump said he's signed a memo directing the Justice Department to develop regulations to ban bump stocks, as Florida students press state legislators on passing new gun control measures.

Here are your morning headlines for Tuesday, March 20: University Hospitals ordered to stop contacting patients affected by fertility clinic equipment...

A new study from the Economic Innovation Group, an advocacy group, named Cleveland the most distressed large city in the U.S.