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Hurricane Florence is now a Category 4 storm — and the East Coast is bracing for a direct hit. Bill Saffo, the mayor of Wilmington, N.C., speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about how the city is preparing.

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names is considering renaming a mountain and a valley in Yellowstone. The park features are named for men whose work was tied to mass killings of Native people.

The vaccine is still unlicensed but has passed drug trials with flying colors. Authorities have begun administering thousands of doses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to fight the outbreak.

The secretary of state and Kim Yong Chol met for the second day on Thursday, seeking to salvage a June 12 summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un.

Hundreds of coal miners in Wyoming are still out of work two months after their employer declared bankruptcy. It's a moment of reckoning for a town some think relies too much on the energy industry.

Water temperatures between Alaska and California have risen by 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Researchers say the warming could trigger a series of problems in the marine food chain.

The typhoon, which has now passed to the northeast of Tokyo, was the largest to hit Japan in 61 years, since the 1958 Kanogawa Typhoon that killed more than 1,200 people.

President Trump is nominating Stephen Dickson, a former Delta Airlines exec, to lead the Federal Aviation Administration while it is being sharply criticized for its oversight of plane manufacturers.

South Korean trains crossed over into North Korea on Friday for the first time in a decade. South Korea is pushing to link the two countries' railways, despite stalled talks on the nuclear issue.

Like David McCullough's other books, this one succeeds because of the author's strength as a storyteller; it reads like a novel and is packed with information drawn from painstaking research.