Arthur Perkins walks his dog Wednesday as the winds and rain from Hurricane Ian arrive in in Sarasota, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
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Lizzo poses after receiving an award for "Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls" at the 74th Primetime Emmys in Los Angeles earlier this month. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
A police officer holds one of a group of men, among 31 arrested for conspiracy to riot and affiliated with the white nationalist group Patriot Front, after they were found in the rear of a U-Haul van in the vicinity of a North Idaho Pride Alliance LGBTQ+ event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on June 11, 2022. John Rudoff/Reuters hide caption
U.S. officials have announced fraud charges against three men who, they allege, orchestrated a scheme to inflate the market value of the company that owned Hometown Deli, a small delicatessen in New Jersey. In this photo illustration, a person views online information for the now-shuttered deli. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man walks through the mudflats on Wednesday where water receded from Tampa Bay as Hurricane Ian approached western Florida. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A South Miami, Fla., resident makes a phone call from one of the few working phones in the area as another man waits for his turn amid the rubble of a destroyed business on Aug. 25, 1992, after Hurricane Andrew made landfall. Andrew Itkoff/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Ned Fulmer seen at Lionsgate Premiere of Dirty 30 at ArcLight Cinemas on Sept. 20, 2016, in Los Angeles. Steve Cohn/Steve Cohn/Invision/AP hide caption
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Katie Couric appears at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 27 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Couric said Wednesday that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent surgery and radiation treatment this summer to treat the tumor. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
Aerial view of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Some hospitals in Texas and around the U.S. are seeing high profits, even as their bills force patients into debt. Of the nation's 20 most populous counties, none has a higher concentration of medical debt than Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth. Jupiterimages/Getty Images hide caption
Instead of going back to a corporate job, Farida Mercedes started her own business. It pays less, but she has more flexibility to spend time with her sons Sebastian (left) and Lucas, ages 7 and 9. Farida Mercedes hide caption
Women are returning to (paid) work after the pandemic forced many to leave their jobs
Brittney Griner waits for the verdict during a hearing outside Moscow on Aug. 4. The WNBA star is one of more than five dozen Americans being held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad, according to the James. W. Foley Legacy Foundation. Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool photo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) sits between Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) during a meeting between President Donald Trump and congressional members on Feb. 13, 2018. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
A man glues a referendum poster reading "Yes" in Berdyansk, Ukraine, on Monday. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Magnus Carlsen says he will not play Hans Niemann again because he believes Niemann "has cheated more — and more recently — than he has publicly admitted." Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images hide caption
Bed Bath & Beyond is working on yet another turnaround after a series of crises and missteps. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images hide caption
This is the last complete image of Dimorphos taken by the DRACO imager on NASA's DART mission before the collision. It shows a patch of the asteroid about 100 feet across, captured from some seven miles away and two seconds before impact. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL hide caption
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Biden administration has plans to help the economy absorb supply shocks. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Why tackling climate change means a stronger economy — according to Janet Yellen
The dollar is surging. This is who gets helped — and hurt — by its newfound strength
Fallen utility poles and branches line a street in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, on Tuesday after Hurricane Ian hit. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett stands inside the Allen Elizabethan Theatre in Ashland, Ore. She recently programmed her first full season but not everyone has embraced her new approach. Michael Sullivan for NPR hide caption
Oregon Shakespeare Festival focuses on expansion – but is not without its critics
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing on July 21, 2022. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Hilaree Nelson of Telluride, Colorado, left and James Morrison of Tahoe, California, raise their fists as the pair arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2018. Rescuers in a helicopter were searching on the world's eighth-highest mountain Tuesday for Nelson, the famed U.S. ski mountaineer, a day after her trip organizer said she fell off the mountain near the peak. Niranjan Shrestha/AP hide caption
A house lays in the mud after it was washed away by Hurricane Fiona at Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico on Sept. 21, 2022. Alejandro Granadillo/AP hide caption
A Nissan electric vehicle recharges at a Power Up fast charger station on April 14, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. California has more chargers than any other state in the U.S., but the federal government is trying to expand charger access across the country. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Kurt Wagner performs with Lambchop in September at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Erik Westra/Courtesy of the artist hide caption