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Overall, this season's vaccine is about 36 percent effective in blunting or preventing flu, health officials say. That's better than earlier predictions, and good enough to prevent flu in thousands.

With few exceptions, neighborhoods in Cleveland are largely white or largely black. This geographic segregation has serious ripple effects for everyone, and it didn’t happen by chance, but rather by specific policies and events. We’re looking at this phenomenon for the next several days in the series Divided by Design. The series’ coordinating producer, ideastream’s Anne Glausser, spoke with “Morning Edition” host Amy Eddings about the series. On the genesis of “Divided by Design”:

Nearly 3.8 million customers lack electricity in Florida Wednesday, along with hundreds of thousands more in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

President Trump's decision to impose 25 percent tariff on foreign steel, and 10 percent on foreign aluminum was not a surprise for those who followed his campaign rhetoric. But Ohio State University economist Ned Hill was surprised by *how* the President announced the decision, without perhaps considering all of the repercussions. He says one of the benefits of free trade is forcing industries to become more competitive on the international market, which is ultimately what happened to the steel industry.

The ACLU is suing Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary of state and former leader of Donald Trump's disbanded voter fraud commission, over his state's restrictive voter registration rules.

Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan says he won’t manage a declining city, planning instead to increase population and support entrepreneurs. The first-term mayor delivered his state of the city address on Wednesday, saying Akron must innovate while remaining financially stable. The Akron Roundtable hosted the event. “Akron needs to be a city that thrives and not just survives,” Horrigan told his audience at the John S. Knight Center. Horrigan said he would focus resources on neighborhood commercial areas in a new program called Great Streets Akron.

Canada and the province of Ontario recently released their plan to combat toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie. Phosphorus is the primary cause of the blooms that turn parts of the lake green most summers. The U.S. and Canada hope to reduce phosphorus in Lake Erie by 40 percent, from 2008 levels. It’s all part of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

China announced new tariffs on U.S. products in response to U.S. tariffs on Chinese products.

Ohio gas prices have jumped 35 cents a gallon in the last month, but are still two cents lower than what Ohio drivers were paying a year ago. So why are…

Arguably the dominating narrative of the U.S. Open was 27-year-old golfer Jason Day's ongoing struggle with benign positional vertigo.