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At least two people in Texas are dead as a result of Harvey, a storm that landed as a category 4 hurricane earlier this week. Houston Public Media reporter Gail Delaughter reports on the flooding.

There's a free concert taking place at a forest in Germany, and the headline acts have come from far, far away. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks to New York-based artist Jeff Talman about his German sound installation, Nature of the Night Sky. Working with astrophysicist Daniel Huber, he used radiation and seismic data from stars and shaped it into music, played back after sundown each night in a Bavarian forest.

Experts have long warned of the potential devastation that a slow-moving and powerful hurricane such as Katrina could wage on the historic city of New Orleans. Host Jacki Lyden and Debbie Elliott speak with Joe Suhayda, an oceanographer in Baton Rouge who has been using computer models to predict what damage a hurricane of this magnitude might inflict on New Orleans.

The death of Hugo Chavez and the election of his successor in a tightly-fought race has left Venezuela more deeply divided than ever. Now it's fueling instability in one of the world's great oil powers.

Brain training has become a multimillion-dollar industry. But if you want to improve your memory, don't waste your time and money on brain games. You'd be better off learning how to quilt.

Scores of civilians were feared killed or wounded in the city of Kremenchuk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post that the number of victims was "unimaginable."

On top of positions being cut and other changes, the Cincinnati Public School Board is also considering the possibility of combining Frederick Douglass Elementary in Walnut Hills with nearby Evanston Academy and closing one of the buildings.

People in Asheville, N.C., experienced trauma after Hurricane Helene. Therapists there experienced trauma too, and say because of that they are bringing even more empathy to patients.

Hospital chaplains often meet people at the lowest point in their lives. We hear from one chaplain who encourages patients to discuss their tattoos as a way of creating an emotional bond.

With Secretary Betsy DeVos rolling up her sleeves and joining President Donald Trump to talk with educators and parents, Washington, D.C., is at the center of a lot of education news this week.