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Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast in the United States. Despite the devastating damage and death toll produced, the sense of community did not dwindle. Andrew Aydin created the comic Islands in the Sky to share 11 firsthand accounts of those impacted by the hurricane in order to better understand the power community plays even during dangerous moments in life.

Learn how scientists are attempting to reverse glacial melt through intervention

Discuss the impact of the national debt hitting an important threshold

Learn about the mental health challenges and supply issues sailors are experiencing, according to family members and U.S. Naval officials

Discuss ways states are trying to regulate ways social media companies might harm young users

Discuss the difference between open- and closed-source AI models

Learn about how the Smithsonian's director uses history for future learning

Discuss what makes a song "quintessentially American"

Learn about a conservative community in Montana that is fighting back against ICE arrest of local resident.

Discuss the history of Asian Americans and how that history has shaped the law for all immigrants in the U.S.