15 h. ago Tropical Storm Erin could become the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2025 season

The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to strengthen over the next several days and says it could become a hurricane by late Thursday.

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16 h. ago Will Tropical Storm Erin hit the US or turn? Here's what early forecasts say.

Will Tropical Storm Erin hit the US or turn? Here's what early forecasts say.  USA Today

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6 d. ago Hurricane Katrina helped change New Orleans' public defender system

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse. The court system collapsed in the aftermath of the storm.Katrina caused horrific destruction in New Orleans. It threw incarcerated people into a sort of purgatory - some were lost in prisons for more than a year. But the storm also cleared the way for changes that the city's public defender system had needed for decades. Two decades later, Shapiro returns to New Orleans and finds a system vastly improved.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

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7 d. ago Hurricane Katrina was a catalyst for change in New Orleans' public defender office

Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has been dramatic change in the public defender office.

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8 d. ago The Latest Update on Tropical Storm Dexter Is Good for the United States

The Latest Update on Tropical Storm Dexter Is Good for the United States  Men's Journal

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8 d. ago Hurricane Map Shows Chances of New Tropical Storm Developing Near US

Hurricane Map Shows Chances of New Tropical Storm Developing Near US  Newsweek

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3 w. ago Gulf Coast braces for flooding as storm builds into possible tropical depression

The weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday was showing a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression as it moves toward the northern Gulf Coast.

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3 w. ago Tropical storm to soak Gulf Coast as renewed flood threat hits Northeast and Midwest

A tropical threat on the Gulf Coast has a 40% chance for development into a tropical depression in the next 48 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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