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The Spanish government has stepped up efforts to prevent the Catalan independence referendum, with police seizing millions of ballots, and trying to seal-off schools where Sunday's voting is planned.

The Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy's preparatory school, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria responded to a racist incident on the school's campus in unequivocal terms. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Tom Roeder, Senior Military Editor at The Gazette, in Colorado Springs, Colo., about the speech.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times, about Republican leadership's bad week and the rollout of a Republican effort to overhaul the tax code.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Greg Ruiz, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, about nearly 300 Japanese marine coastal species that traveled across the Pacific Ocean.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Politico's Dan Diamond, who broke much of the news about Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's charter flights, about Price's resignation.

Lawmakers want the names of any White House aides using private email accounts for official business. A law professor said using private email is "not a criminal offense. It's just very, very stupid."

Hurricane Irma has destroyed the habitat for the U.S. Virgin Islands' iguanas. But it's created excellent breeding grounds for the local mosquitoes.

"You must leave now," thousands of Americans from Puerto Rico to Oregon to Florida, Montana, Texas and beyond were told, as floods, fire and wind threatened their lives. Some said no.

The people of Massachusetts celebrated the centennial in sticky style with a festival — including thousands of Fluffernutter sandwiches — in the neighborhood where Fluff was first whipped up.

Kelly's first week as host of NBC's 9 a.m. Today show was rocky. The former Fox News anchor has time to steady the ship, but the transformation she's seeking to make is a big one.