Deepti Hajela

FILE – Passengers board a plane bound for Eindhoven, after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez,File)

The world’s reaction to hantavirus is tinged by echoes of something else: COVID

May 14, 2026 at 7:34 a.m.

The lingering impact of COVID-19, a few years out from the declaration that the pandemic was over, is scattered across how we live today — the work-from-home jobs, the way...

A sign that reads “Closed due to federal government shutdown,” is seen outside of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Oct. 6, 2025. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

You can end a shutdown overnight — but you can’t reopen a government that fast

November 13, 2025 at 5:43 p.m.

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over — on paper, at least. But the American public isn’t done with it yet: Getting everything back up and running doesn’t...

FILE – In this June 16, 2016 file photo, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rangel retires after more than four decades in office. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Former US Rep. Charles Rangel of New York has died at age 94

May 26, 2025 at 11:15 a.m.

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional...

In this Dec. 3, 2019, photo, Mohammed Hafar checks the arrivals road while waiting for his daughter Jana Hafar's flight at JFK Airport in New York. Mohammed Hafar was part of a federal lawsuit filed in August of this year over the travel ban waiver process. "Every time I speak to her, she ask, 'When are they going to give me the visa?'" the elder Hafar said, recalling the days of uncertainty that took up the better part of this year. There was "nothing I could tell her, because nobody knows when." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

To overcome travel ban, some Americans taking cases to court

December 27, 2019 at 6:02 p.m.

The third version of the administration's ban took effect in December 2017, keeping citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and North Korea, and government representatives from Venezuela, from traveling...

Edith Windsor addresses a news conference at the offices of the New York Civil Liberties Union on Oct. 18, 2012, in New York. Windsor, who brought a Supreme Court case that struck down parts of a federal law that banned same-sex marriage, died Sept. 12, 2017.

Edith Windsor, who helped end gay marriage ban, dies at 88

August 22, 2019 at 5:52 a.m.

Edith Windsor, a gay rights pioneer whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down parts of a federal anti-gay-marriage law and paved a path toward legalizing same-sex nuptials nationwide, died Tuesday....

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