It's time to get a flu shot. With all the talk about COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, it's easy to forget that there's another respiratory virus poised to strike. Here's what you need to know.

 

View this email online by Korva Coleman and Carol Ritchie First Up Jae C. Hong/AP Here's what we're following today.   Firefighters are finally gaining on the Caldor Fire, near Lake Tahoe, but a new crop of suspicious fires that erupted over Labor Day weekend added to an already busy wildfire season in California, including more than a dozen in Sonoma County. The warming climate is a bigger threat to global health than COVID-19, according to an unprecedented joint statement from more than 200 medical journals. The editorial says the world can't wait for the pandemic to end before tackling climate change — which will only bring more infectious diseases. It's time to get a flu shot. With all the talk about COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, it's easy to forget that there's another respiratory virus poised to strike. Here's what you need to know. Hundreds who say they are fearful of life under the Taliban spent another day parked on an airstrip in northern Afghanistan on Monday. Included are American citizens and green card holders. Actor Michael K. Williams created one of the most beloved and enduring characters in a prime era of television: the rogue robber of drug dealers Omar Little of The Wire. Williams died Monday at 54. Newsletter continues after sponsor message Picture Show Dallas Museum of Art Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris, where he discovered that "Nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears." X-rays and infrared photos reveal the artistic thinking of the first internationally known Black painter. Today’s Listen John Burnett/NPR When Hurricane Ida threatened their home in Wallace, La., last week, Jo and Joy Banner and their parents fled to the Big House on the Whitney Plantation — a house their enslaved ancestors helped build. "They were not able to have this kind of house for their own protection when a hurricane hit them," Joy Banner says.  Listen to their story, or read it here. Before You Go Carolyn Fong for NPR Stymied at every turn, accused of things he never did, Robert Shireman finally asked The Wall Street Journal to correct a story it published about him back in 2013. Forget tiger moms. Now China's "chicken blood parents" are pushing children to succeed. Volunteers have painted more than 150,000 red and pink hearts along the River Thames across from British Parliament in a tribute to lives lost to COVID-19. Listen to your local NPR station. Visit NPR.org to hear live radio from Illinois Public Media - WILL (edit station). Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here. Looking for more great content? Check out all of our newsletter offerings — including Music, Politics, Health and more!