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The storm weakened slightly after it came ashore over southwestern Louisiana, near the Texas border. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Thurman Bartie, mayor of Port Arthur in Texas.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Sam Brinton, vice president of advocacy and government affairs at The Trevor Project, about the soon-to-be new number to reach the national suicide prevention hotline.

Roughly 2.5 million citizens of the approximately 5 million people expected to vote this fall have requested to vote by mail, according to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

Nine months after the first reported fatality in China last January, the world has hit a sobering milestone.

Attendance is one of the most important factors that determine a student's success, and daily head count is crucial to school funding. But in the pandemic, schools have to rethink attendance policies.

Experts say the hotel industry may not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2023. Laid-off hospitality workers are bearing the brunt of this long downturn.

The Washington Redskins have announced the team will be dropping its moniker, which is widely considered a slur against Native Americans. The head coach and team owner are developing a new name.

"The reality is that laborers work at the limit of human dignity," Aboubakar Soumahoro tells NPR. He's the subject of a new documentary, The Invisibles, shot at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Forecasters say the coronavirus outbreaks across the South have been seeding a resurgence in the Northeast. Consequences could be severe unless the Northeast steps up social distancing immediately.

A Japanese-owned cargo ship ran aground in late July and began leaking oil a few days ago. Now a crack has expanded in its hull. The island nation is home to species that live nowhere else.