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  1. 1 hour ago

    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.

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    INBOX: all of orleans parish is without power due to hurricane Ida

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    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.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    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.

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  5. 4 hours ago

    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.

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  6. 5 hours ago

    Ed Asner, who played the loveable boss on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," has died at the age of 91.

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  7. 5 hours ago

    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.

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    Hurricane Ida has already caused widespread power outages throughout the state of Louisiana after making landfall Sunday afternoon.

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  9. 6 hours ago

    Hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents were without power Sunday afternoon as Hurricane Ida began moving over the New Orleans area. From :

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  10. 8 hours ago

    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.

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  11. 9 hours ago

    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 stay

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  12. 10 hours ago

    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

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  13. 11 hours ago

    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.

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  14. 12 hours ago

    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

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  15. 13 hours ago

    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.

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  16. 15 hours ago

    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.

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  17. 16 hours ago

    "Edie In Between" is a fun, witchy fall read, says -- but you'll find yourself yelling, possibly out loud, at Edie as she makes a series of bad choices.

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  18. 19 hours ago

    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.

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  19. 21 hours ago

    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.

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  20. 23 hours ago

    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.

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