Five people were killed — including a mother and her baby when a tree fell on their house — as Category 1 Hurricane Florence first came ashore in North Carolina Friday, weakened to a tropical storm and moved into South Carolina at nightfall. The slow-moving system dumped 40 inches of rain in some areas, causing severe coastal flooding and leaving nearly 800,000 homes and businesses without power. Rescue efforts are underway for people trapped by overflowing rivers, and forecasters warn that “catastrophic flash flooding” still threatens the region.

As President Donald Trump mulls a new summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un amid Pyongyang’s disappointing progress on nuclear disarmament, South Korean President Moon Jae-in is heading into the breach. He’s scheduled his third meeting with Kim for Tuesday — four days after the technically warring nations set up their first liaison office in the North’s border town of Kaesong. Now the peninsula waits for Trump, who canceled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s trip to Pyongyang last month, to decide if he wants his own meeting with Kim.

After insisting he wouldn’t, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller as part of Friday’s guilty plea to charges related to his work for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians. Manafort was convicted of financial fraud last month and will now avoid a second trial. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the deal has “absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious 2016 Presidential campaign,” but legal experts say it indicates that Manafort has already provided information that strikes closer to the White House.

It’s far from over. The financial crisis of 2008 sent shock waves through the global economy, upending lives as seemingly disconnected as American hedge fund managers and British store clerks. It felled banks, withered retirement accounts and shuttered storefronts. Even today, as the U.S. approaches full employment, some wonder what’s recovered: the economy, or the people working in it? Prices have outpaced earnings, and many find themselves worse off than 10 years ago. Meanwhile, lingering fears entertain the possibility of another crash.

The Week Ahead: President Trump planned to launch Hispanic Heritage Month, but the House Hispanic Caucus Chair has declined an invitation after Trump’s denial of Puerto Rico hurricane deaths. The U.N. General Assembly’s 73rd session opens Tuesday, but without an anticipated appearance by embattled Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. And the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a Thursday vote on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, despite last week’s anonymous sexual assault accusation against him, which he denies.

Know This: Typhoon Mangkhut has killed at least two people as it cut a swath of destruction through the Philippines on its way toward China. The likelihood of a nuclear launch by a U.S. president may have been increased by former President Barack Obama’s policy decisions. And gunmen dressed as mariachi musicians killed three people in a tourist plaza in Mexico City Friday.

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The business of “voluntourism” is booming, but it’s financing wasteful and unhealthy practices like parents abandoning their kids. Aid organizations have found that many “orphans” visited by paying volunteers have parents who believe their kids will benefit from the education and health care provided by orphanages, some housing almost no parent-less children. Experts say it’s better to use the money for assistance closer to families’ homes — where local skilled labor could build 15 houses for the cost of one built by untrained students looking for selfies and special experiences.

Phones and other devices seem the least of our power worries — but that cloud could burst. The electricity demands of global information and communications technology now generate only about 2 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. But with digital demand growing exponentially, that could increase to 20 percent in little over a decade. That includes the proliferation of power-hungry, cavernous data centers and cryptocurrencies’ seemingly endless demand for computing capacity. While technology is also becoming more power-thrifty, experts doubt the efficiency curve can stay ahead of humankind’s voracious data appetite.

Millennials in Tajikistan were just kids when their nation erupted into a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives. Today, hundreds of thousands work abroad and most families must subsist on less than $1,000 a year. But in the capital, Dushanbe, young entrepreneurs making use of the country’s notoriously slow internet to transform their city. They’re organizing everything from car buying to festivals — and even online forums despite expression in Tajikistan being far from free — while being careful not to rile their autocratic government.

It’s a lifesaver. Algorithms sort huge pools of potential kidney donors with recipients who are unsuccessfully paired with other, noncompatible donors, creating chains of donations between disparate members. Nearly 6,000 people have received transplants this way since nephrologists, computer scientists and economists fine-tuned the first such algorithm in 2000. Those matches took biology into account — but what about morality? Now programmers are training digital minds to factor in recipients’ ages and healthy habits in order to apply human values in deciding who most deserves the gift of life.

As the NFL kicks off a new year, body weight could prove to be this season’s thorniest issue. Part of the “roughing the passer” regulations of 1995, the rule’s been tweaked to say defenders cannot throw quarterbacks down or (instead of “and”) land on them with most of their body weight. Commentators predict the rule will become a nightmare for defenders if they cannot adapt quickly. In the season’s first week alone, 15 roughing-the-passer penalties were assessed — five of which were body weight violations.