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Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph.

A new magazine arrives on-line today, after a few false starts. Failure magazine is, as its title implies, about failure: battles lost, sports blunders, products that didn't catch on. The fact that someone would even come up with an idea for such a magazine suggests that, in an age when dot-coms come and go like buses, the very notion of failure may not have the stigma it once did when Willie Loman first walked the boards. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports. (7:30) For more information, visit http://failuremag.com

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is in the news again. The city of Chicago has chosen the 1960 classic for The Chicago reading initiative "One Book, One Chicago." The same day Chicago announced the selection, Muskogee High School in Oklahoma removed the book from its required reading list for freshmen. Guest host Melissa Block talks with Mary Dempsey, commissioner for the Chicago Public Library, and Muriel Saunders, a member of the Muskogee School Board in Oklahoma, about the decisions made by both cities. We also hear excerpts from the audio version of the book as narrated by Sally Darling and produced by Recorded Books.

The state’s ongoing budget impasse has hit community colleges particularly hard, with funds to these schools and the students who attend them drastically…

The first week in the White House was remarkably smooth and dominated by good news for newly installed President Bush. He hosted members of the Congress by the score and watched as nearly all his Cabinet appointees were confirmed or sworn in. He even got a big thumbs up from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, who told a Senate committee he thought the time was right for tax cuts. Meanwhile, Bush benefited from contrast as departing President Bill Clinton remained the focus of controversy. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House.

Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was one of two journalists to win last year's Nobel Peace Prize. He sold his to raise money for Ukrainian refugees.

The president this week crosses the milestone, which is a chance to measure how a new administration is doing. Biden has had a low-key approach so far, but with high marks on many traditional metrics.

Voters in Oklahoma turned back a ballot measure that would have legalized adult recreational marijuana. By one estimate, totals for taxes on medical and recreational use reached $3.7 billion in 2021.

Across the West, hundreds of communities are vulnerable to wildfires. But wildfire and recovery experts warn that the impulse to re-create what was there before disaster is misguided and dangerous.

A test of Central Michigan University's new messaging system "inadvertently" told 58 students they won an award that provides full tuition, room and board, money toward books and supplies and $5,000.