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• Classes were canceled and traffic was chaotic because of the large-scale power outage. The government-run power company said half of its customers should have power by the end of the day.
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• NPR’s Ari Shapiro checks back in with Eddie Meltzer, who helped translate for victims’ families after the mass shooting — the worst in U.S. history — at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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• The park is increasing by 400 acres along its western boundary, thanks to a donation by the conservation group The Trust for Public Land. The land includes a grassy meadow and wetlands.
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• Florida is one of the most hotly contested battleground states this year, and one of the most diverse. Demographic changes there reveal much of why it is such a big prize in the presidential race.
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• Saying “the behavior of these athletes was not acceptable,” the U.S. Olympic Committee levies suspensions on Ryan Lochte and three other athletes involved in an ill-fated night out in Rio.
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• To study dogs’ brain activity, scientists had to train canines to hold absolutely still for eight minutes without restraint. But how do you get a dog to freeze that long inside a clanging MRI scanner?
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• Donald Trump brushed aside questions this week about the fine he paid over an improper contribution the Trump Foundation made to a political committee for Florida’s attorney general.
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• The next iPhone, expected to be unveiled Wednesday, may be missing something familiar: the ubiquitous headphone jack. Usability experts say the change could really sit badly with Apple customers.
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• Millions of men in their prime working years have dropped out since the 1960s — they aren’t working or even looking for a job. Factors including technology, education and family reasons play a role.
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• At mass shooting sites from Orlando to Newtown to Virginia Tech, historians are collecting items that mourners and sympathizers leave and preserving them in archives.
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