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Hurricane Ike is expected to make landfall — as a Category 3 hurricane — late Friday or early Saturday south of Galveston, Texas. Officials issued a mandatory evacuation order and warned of "certain death" for those who don't leave, but NPR's Ari Shapiro says plenty of people remain.

The ongoing government shutdown is hurting many people across the country. That includes small farm owners.

President Trump bragged this week about job gains and a rising stock market. So what are the facts?

An estimated 3,000 families have been evicted to make way for building projects related to the 2016 Summer Games. The families and Olympic organizers don't always agree on whether it's an upgrade.

In a nearly hourlong speech, Pope Francis called for action on climate change, encouraged empathy for immigrants and advocated for the poor. He also said he supports abolishing the death penalty.

Petty says his new album, Hypnotic Eye, takes an observational look at the American dream: "I don't really take a side," he says. "I just invented characters that had their points of view."

Food banks have already been contending with higher food prices and increased need. Administrators say demand will skyrocket if federal nutrition benefits stop in a few days because of the government shutdown.

David Greene talks to Blake Apgar, a reporter with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, who ran to the scene as soon as he got word of the shooting. NPR's Scott Detrow weighs in, too.

Raegan and Rylyn Richins make "Be Kind" yard signs and donate the proceeds to local charities. "We felt that every place could use more kindness because there's never too much kindness," Reagan says.

Protesters nationwide are demanding police reform. Calls to defund the police mean different things to different people, and there's no clear answer to what that might look like in reality.