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Eight deaths at a Florida nursing home got a lot of media attention. But a tour of other health care centers in the Miami area found mostly good care after Hurricane Irma struck.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talked to Mélisande Short-Colomb, whose family was once enslaved by Georgetown University. Now, at 63, Short-Colomb has enrolled as a freshman there.

Swiss authorities are puzzled by several toilet systems in Geneva that are clogged with shredded currency. Each individual bill is worth nearly $600.

Federal officials obtained a wiretap of adviser Paul Manafort, according to reports. There's concern he might have been communicating with Russian operatives who wanted to influence the 2016 election.

California could get a head start in selecting the nominees for president in 2020. A measure passed by the state Legislature would move primary elections from June to March.

In this first address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump took on the global threats posed by North Korea and Iran and reiterated his "America First" approach to policy.

Also: Toys 'R Us files for bankruptcy protection; Senate Republicans try again to replace Obamacare; and there are 250 new words in Merriam-Webster's dictionary.

The National Hurricane Center warns that Hurricane Maria now barreling toward Puerto Rico is a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour.

During the evening of Tuesday, September 19, 1559, some 458 years ago, strong winds from the north heralded the arrival of a great hurricane in Pensacola…

The states' attorneys general are banding together to investigate the makers and distributors of powerful opioid painkillers that have led to a spike in opiate addictions and overdose deaths.