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In the next few days, Dorian's winds could top 115 mph — making it a Category 3 storm — the National Hurricane Center says.

Irma is now a Category 1 hurricane. It came ashore in the Florida Keys and hit the rest of the state very hard. Miami, in particular, had high winds, heavy rain and flooding to deal with.

There are many fires spread out across the state, and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. Two of the biggest fires that are threatening areas near Portland are raging unchecked.

"Tsunami" has been all over the news since a powerful earthquake sent a wall of water into northeastern Japan on March 11. It's a word that comes from Japan and dates from more than 1,000 years ago.

Ten years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, billions of dollars have been spent infrastructure to make the city more resilient. NPR's Scott Simon talks to photojournalist Nathan Kensinger.

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region braced for possible flooding as tropical storm Francine moved inland.

A "bomb cyclone" is forecast to bring heavy snow, high winds and life-threatening flooding to the Pacific Northwest in the next few days.

The chief of staff to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Whitaker is a former U.S. attorney with a history of questioning the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Lawmakers are quietly circulating three proposals meant to help unemployed Oregonians.

Though largely forgotten, cartoonist Jackie Ormes lent a strong voice to black women in the decades leading up to the civil rights movement. She was a pioneer in her day, creating smart and independent heroines that challenged the period's stereotypes.