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NPR's Andy Bowers reports from the campaign trail where both George W. Bush and Al Gore traveled to the West Coast yesterday. With the race close in Oregon, Washington, and California, Bush is threatening Gore in what are traditionally Democratic strongholds (4:26).

Robert Siegel talks with Beth Herzfeld, spokeswoman for Anti-Slavery International (www.antislavery.org), about children on a boat that is missing off the coast of Benin. The ship is said to be taking part in a thriving slave trade in children.

New Orleans is getting most of the nation's attention, but Hurricane Katrina's fury shattered Mississippi's coast, with stunning structural damage. Entire beachfront neighborhoods are gone in Gulfport, Waveland and other towns.

The storm made landfall as a Category 4 storm late Friday, becoming the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. in a dozen years. More than 200,000 people were without power early Saturday.

Police say the boy was on a cross-country trip, from his home in Kendall on the east coast to Perth on the opposite coast. He got about a third of the way before he was pulled over.

The National Hurricane Center says the storm reached hurricane strength late Thursday. The Bahamas posted a hurricane warning.

Anjuli Sastry (she/her) is a producer on It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders and a 2021 Nieman Journalism Foundation Visiting Fellow. During her Nieman fellowship in spring 2021, Sastry created, hosted and produced the audio and video series Where We Come From. The series tells the stories of immigrant communities of color through a personal and historical lens.

It would be the first time in the agency's history that it has sought to regulate the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.

The lush, saxophone-forward R&B track is an invitation for self-love and reflection.

Along Peru's coast, archeologists find the ruins of some 20 communities clustered along three rivers. Some date back 5,000 years. People there grew crops and built huge stone monuments that predate the Egyptian pyramids. It's believed to be the oldest complex culture in the Americas. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.