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New Orleans residents who lived through Hurricane Katrina's devastation are now confronting another hurricane of epic scale. Some people are riding out the storm because they can't afford to leave.https://n.pr/2WAQom9 

A Texas pastor encouraged some members of his congregation to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but thought he didn't need to get vaccinated himself. That changed after COVID-19 almost killed him.https://n.pr/3gETCMM 

Sunday's dignified transfer, as the ceremony is called, marked the first time as president that Biden had traveled to Dover to witness the return of fallen U.S. service members.https://n.pr/2Y92hAP 

Lee "Scratch" Perry has died at age 85. His idiosyncratic career included helping to inspire the sounds of dub and rap as we know them today.https://n.pr/38qbnea 

Ed Asner, who played the loveable boss on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," has died at the age of 91.https://n.pr/3zwwszB 

Gov. John Bel Edwards says Hurricane Ida will be the strongest storm to hit Louisiana since the 1850s. Take a look at scenes from across the state as residents prepare and take shelter.https://n.pr/2WEXmHc 

Hurricane Ida has already caused widespread power outages throughout the state of Louisiana after making landfall Sunday afternoon.https://n.pr/3gIR1lb 

Hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents were without power Sunday afternoon as Hurricane Ida began moving over the New Orleans area. From @WWNO:https://n.pr/3gIqHHK 

Hurricane Ida has made landfall as a Category 4 storm roughly 100 miles from New Orleans near Port Fourchon, La. Ida arrived with sustained winds of 150 mph, and forecasters say it could strengthen to a Category 5.https://n.pr/2Y7dXUG 

One nonprofit has a new strategy for the issue in parts of India of menstrual exile: If you can't get a community to stop banishing a woman from her home when she is menstruating, at least make sure she has someplace relatively safe and comfortable to stayhttps://n.pr/3Br8SVF 

Octavia Butler is sometimes called “the Mother of Afrofuturism," an open-ended genre combining science fiction, fantasy, and history to imagine a liberated future, through a Black lens. Listen now to this episode of @throughlineNPRhttps://n.pr/3gGaDGj 

The U.S. has carried out a second strike against suspected members of ISIS-K in Afghanistan to prevent what the Pentagon called an "imminent" threat to the airport in Kabul.https://n.pr/3BBe4X9 

Author LeUyen Pham recommends three great reads for your back-to-middle-schooler: "They're all about sort of creating empathy and figuring out how to enter back into the school world in such a crazy time right now," she tells @NPRWeekendhttps://n.pr/3gJChlP 

Public health experts fear that if conflict zones don't receive vaccines soon, these places could become hot spots for transmission and incubators for potentially dangerous variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.https://n.pr/3jmBdGm 

The nation is mourning along with the families of the 13 Americans who died in the attack at the airport in Kabul. Here is what we know so far about their bravery and how they touched the lives of those around them.https://n.pr/3kyETUN 

"Edie In Between" is a fun, witchy fall read, says @AletheaKontis -- but you'll find yourself yelling, possibly out loud, at Edie as she makes a series of bad choices.https://n.pr/3kw3x8F 

Hurricane Ida has strengthened to a Category 4 storm ahead of an expected afternoon landfall in Louisiana. The region is grappling with providing shelter for evacuees while mitigating the potential spread of COVID-19.https://n.pr/3DnOExT 

As cinemas struggle with the ascent of streaming and concurrent digital releases, movie studios gathered in Las Vegas to show-off their splashiest fall films and encourage movie theater owners.https://n.pr/3mGdSS1 

Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers spent more than a decade working on her debut novel, "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois," which follows Ailey Pearl Garfield as she unearths the truths of her family.https://n.pr/3ypvgwK