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While Florida prepares for Hurricane Irma, people on the Caribbean Islands are beginning to assess the damage. The tiny island of Barbuda is home to more than a thousand people. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gaston Browne, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.

The NFL season kicks off with the New England Patriots against the Kansas City Chiefs. But ongoing civil rights protests and player safety concerns bring questions to this year's season.

Nashville, Tenn., has found a way to make sure some homes never flood again. It's tearing them down.

Michael Jacobson invented a new style of food activism. For four decades, he led the fight against "junk food." He's now stepping down as president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Martin and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands bore the brunt of the Category 5 monster that could hit Florida within days.

Down graded to a Category 4, Irma's brutal churn through the Caribbean is aimed at Florida, where the National Hurricane Center says it's more likely to make landfall as a "dangerous major hurricane."

It's the 21st time that she has appeared before a parole board and the second time commissioners found her suitable for release. California Gov. Jerry Brown reversed another panel's ruling last year.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Associated Press reporter Dánica Coto about the impact of Hurricane Irma in Puerto Rico as one of the strongest-ever storms in the Atlantic gets closer to the island.

The Seahawks star says he felt helpless, lying handcuffed on the ground "facing the real-life threat of being killed. All I could think of was 'I'm going to die for no other reason than I am black.' "

France's Interior minister says the hurricane killed at least 8 people on French Caribbean island territories. Antigua's prime minister says a 2-year-old was killed as a family tried to escape a home.