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Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of Lafourche Parish in south Louisiana as Barry gets closer to landing. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lafourche Parish President Jimmy Cantrelle.

People in Atlanta have gathered Tuesday to commemorate Rayshard Brooks. He was a Black man shot and killed by police after he had fallen asleep in a Wendy's drive-through.

Kent County, Mich. — a home to Betsy DeVos and Gerald Ford — has long been a loyal Republican stronghold. But it is also a suburban place that Democrats think they can win this November.

Israelis and Palestinians are poised for the expected release of the Trump administration's Middle East peace proposal. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to reporter Naomi Zeveloff in Tel Aviv.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talk to Natan Sachs of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution about President Trump's Middle East peace proposal which will be released Tuesday.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead about his new novel, The Nickel Boys, which is based on the horrors of a real juvenile reformatory academy.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Daniel Pierce, a NASCAR historian and a University of North Carolina, Asheville professor, about the history of racism and the Confederate flag in stock car racing.

With threatened arrests of people in the U.S. illegally set to begin Sunday, activists are protesting and lawyers are trying to get access to those immigrants who are detained.

South Korean health authorities say they are storing personal data of 2015 MERS outbreak patients. Privacy advocates say this is illegal and a flaw in a mostly successful contact tracing system.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with author Casper ter Kuile about his new book, The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities Into Soulful Practices.