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Yaser Said, who evaded arrest for more than 12 years, faces an automatic life sentence if convicted in the deaths of Amina and Sarah Said.

The parents claim in a lawsuit that Jones’s claims that the attack was a hoax have led to years of abuse from his followers.

NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz takes us inside Future Interfaces Research Lab at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. At the lab, one of the leading minds behind VR innovation, Chris Harrison, and his team trick your brain into thinking you are touching, feeling, and interacting with things that aren’t really there. They attempt to do this with as little hardware as possible.

In Grapevine, Arkansas students spent more than two hours on the school bus every day for years. Local scientist Billy Hudson saw that time as an opportunity to create a “magic” school bus with internet and computers where students could spend time learning. Now, more than a decade later, Hudson and his wife have taken the program to Vanderbilt University. The couple created Aspirnaut, a six-week program at the medical center that teaches rural and diverse students about STEM subjects.

Three key states, Arizona, Missouri and Michigan, are holding primaries that could give a strong indication of what direction Republican voters want their party to head towards. Former President Trump endorsed candidates that echoed his false claims about the 2020 election. The primaries are the first major opportunities for GOP voters after the January 6th committee’s hearings to either stick with the former president or turn away from him.

In California, a massive push is underway to get a better handle on the McKinney Fire, the state’s largest wildfire this year. The fire has exploded to nearly 60,000 acres, forcing thousands to evacuate, and has killed at least four people. The deadly blaze is still on the move and a new forecast is predicting more troubling days ahead.

Nearly a week after flash floods struck eastern Kentucky, rescue teams are still searching through the devastation. More than 1,300 people have been rescued but officials think hundreds of people could still be missing. At least 37 people have been confirmed dead and that number is expected to rise as the search continues.

There are more yearly deaths attributed to heat than to other weather disasters, including floods, hurricanes and tornadoes.

At the same time, the overall number of Latino and Black students appears to have stayed flat across a larger number of less selective colleges and universities.

A preprint study found that nearly a third of people with Covid experienced rebound symptoms and 12% tested positive again, regardless of whether they'd taken Paxlovid.

Search teams found two people at residences in Northern California on Monday, according to officials.