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Pedro Hernandez was sentenced Tuesday in the 1979 killing of the 6-year-old New York City boy, whose disappearance sparked decades of investigation and helped create a generation of wary parents.

His owner, Kevin Doorlag, told the Kalamazoo Gazette that Zeus died last week of old age. He would have turned 6 in November. On his hind legs, Zeus was 7 feet, 4 inches tall.

The 6-year-old had been hospitalized since being shot five times in November. He departed in in grand style — in a fire truck.

Tokyo-area hospitals "have their hands full," the Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association says in an open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The group represents some 6,000 primary care doctors.

The gist of the former Montgomery County district attorney's remarks hinged on the argument that Democrats were responding in a partisan way to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

NPR's Steve Inskeep profiles Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords, a moderate Republican who cast a crucial vote against President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut proposal. Sen. Jeffords' tie-breaking ability on close votes in the evenly divided Senate gives him considerable influence. He used it to help reduce the size of the tax cut by about a fourth and divert more than $200 billion of it to pay for special education. Jeffords was just re-elected and has received less criticism in his home-state than from conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C.

Fox News had begun to distance itself from Trump recently, as the Jan. 6 panel cast him in harsh light. The FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago has right-wing media, including Fox, snapping back to his defense.

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles reportedly paid more than $6 million recently at an auction in London for a 15th century illuminated manuscript. The Los Angeles Times reports Britain's culture minister has blocked the work from leaving the country — putting it under an export embargo.

The TSA found 6,301 firearms in carry-on bags, most of which were loaded, in 2022.

Special counsel Jack Smith spoke briefly about the indictment and praised the men and women who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.