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Prepare Before You Go To The Airport To Stay Safe, Says Security Expert

When Esteban Santiago killed five people in the Terminal 2 baggage claim of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, he revealed a vulnerable...

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaks with the press while Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., looks on following weekly policy luncheons at the U.S. Capitol on April 21.

Senate votes to kickstart partisan funding process for ICE. Here's how that works

A budget plan with a $70 billion expected price tag for immigration enforcement advanced after an overnight session. It now heads to the House of Representatives.

Thousands gathered for a three-day country music festival in western Colorado in late June. Cases of the delta variant of the coronavirus are spreading quickly in the area, but the public health department said that, by the time the risk had become clear, it was too late to cancel Country Jam.

With Delta Variant Surging In Colorado, A Country Music Festival Goes On

The CDC sent in a team to investigate a delta variant hotspot in Mesa County, Colo. That didn't stop tens of thousands of people from flocking to the state's largest country music festival.

Medics transport a man with COVID-19 symptoms to a hospital in Austin, Texas. More than 3 million people in the state have had COVID-19, but just 81,000 are listed in a central dataset at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Millions Of People Are Missing From CDC COVID Data As States Fail To Report Cases

The CDC's COVID-19 data set is supposed to help track the pandemic, but a new NPR analysis has found the majority of fields are blank and millions of cases across the country are missing altogether.

Protestors for and against legal abortions gathered at The University of Michigan on May 14, 2022.

Confusion roiled Michigan for days as abortion rights changed hour to hour

In a span of 3 days this week, court rulings seesawed between outlawing abortions and permitting them. A judge allowed them to continue Wednesday for at least 21 days.

A poll worker sanitizes ballot marking machines at an early voting location in Inglewood, Calif., on Oct. 29, 2020. The Los Angeles County district attorney alleges that the CEO of Konnech, which makes scheduling software for poll workers, improperly gave Chinese contractors access to sensitive employee data.

Election software CEO is charged with allegedly giving Chinese contractors data access

The Los Angeles County district attorney alleges that the CEO of Konnech, which makes scheduling software for poll workers, improperly gave Chinese contractors access to sensitive employee data.

McCoys Creek, a flooding hot spot in Jacksonville, collects rainfall and runoff that frequently floods the San Marco neighborhood. The city is investing millions to restore floodplain features that can dissipate the water.

GOP lawmakers push to ban climate actions in FL cities; Dems fight to preserve them

Should local governments in Florida be free to pursue local net-zero goals that fight climate change, sea-level rise, extreme heat and worsening weather plaguing their residents? Republicans in the state Legislature are saying no.

Eileen Carroll, left, sits for a portrait as her daughter, Lily, 11, attends school remotely from their home in Warwick, R.I. on Dec. 16. When Carroll's other daughter tested positive for the coronavirus, state health officials told her to notify anyone her daughter might have been around. Contact tracers, she was told, were simply too overwhelmed to do it.

Do-It-Yourself Contact Tracing Is A 'Last Resort' In Communities Besieged By COVID-19

The coronavirus is spreading so fast that cases are outpacing the contact-tracing capacities of some local health departments. Some have asked people who test positive to do their own contact tracing.

Frank Fahland, 61, is one of hundreds of Libby, Mont., residents who has an asbestos-related disease. That makes them potentially more vulnerable to complications from COVID-19.

COVID-19 Stalks A Montana Town Already Grappling With Asbestos Disease

In Libby, Mont., an estimated 1 in 10 have an asbestos-related illness, after decades of pollution from a now-shuttered mine. With lungs already scarred, many fear contracting the coronavirus.

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Springfield, Mo., in June. Vaccination rates in southern Missouri are low, a factor officials say is helping drive what's now the nation's largest outbreak.

COVID Cases In Parts Of Missouri And Arkansas Surge To Levels Not Seen Since Winter

The outbreak of COVID-19 in southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas has become the nation's largest and is mostly driven by the highly contagious delta variant.

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