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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Coast Guard Vice Adm. Scott Buschman. As Atlantic area commander he is overseeing the Coast Guard's work related to Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas and U.S

Billy Jack Crutsinger, 64, was the 14th inmate executed in the U.S. this year and the fifth in Texas. That state has 10 other executions scheduled for 2019.

The Allegheny County Jail runs a full high school for juveniles charged as adults. "In this part of the building, you are a student," Principal Jay Moser tells students on the first day.

State lawmakers are expected to pass a bill requiring campus health centers to provide pills used for medication abortions. If the measure becomes law, it will be the first of its kind in the U.S.

When a loan forgiveness program for public servants wasn't working, Congress created a temporary fix. A new report shows that the program didn't fix much.

As states issue evacuation orders ahead of Hurricane Dorian's arrival, many elderly people have stayed behind. That group of people can have specific challenges when it comes to evacuating.

NPR's Noel King talks to Spence Finlayson, a resident in the Bahamas, who hosts a radio show in Nassau, and is waiting to hear whether his cousins have made it through Hurricane Dorian.

NPR's Noel King talks to reporter Krystel Brown of The Nassau Guardian about what it looks like after Hurricane Dorian destroyed large portions of the Bahamas.

A lot of focus is put on the president's job approval nationwide, but all that matters in the end is the president's standing state by state — and that leaves him with a narrow path to reelection.

The Petronio Alvarez festival is the big event of the summer — five days of music and food and fashion. More than 100,000 people travel to celebrate Afro-Colombian culture.