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The Trump administration has imposed tough restrictions in response to hantavirus and Ebola, including quarantine orders and travel bans. That's despite past criticism of many COVID measures.

Three days after twin earthquakes hit Venezuela, rescue teams race against time amid mounting casualties, strained relief efforts, and mounting criticism of the governments response.

In many ways, Adams' 16th album feels like a retreat: to self-reflection, to primal emotions, and to a tense, rootsy sound that recalls Bruce Springsteen.

Diane Orson is CT Public Radio's Deputy News Director and Southern Connecticut Bureau Chief. For years, hers was the first voice many Connecticut residents heard each day as the local host of Morning Edition. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Here And Now. She is the co-recipient of a Peabody Award. Her work has been recognized by the Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, including the Ellen Abrams Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and the Walt Dibble Award for Overall Excellence.

Set at the turn of the century within the grand houses of Princeton, The Accursed is populated with specters, demons and even a vampire. But the real monsters in Joyce Carol Oates' chilling tale are the members of Princeton's elite, who preach from the pulpits and judge without compassion.

As the partial government shutdown nears the start of its second week, Democrats say the only way out is for House Republicans to pass a clean spending bill to re-open the government with no changes to the Affordable Care Act. Some Republicans agree. So why don't moderate House Republicans rise up, and do something to end the shutdown?

A Nigerian militant group holding three foreign oil workers hostage claims to be fighting to win a greater share of oil wealth on behalf of the Niger Delta's impoverished inhabitants. The government characterizes the militants as criminals and oil thieves.

The case against four leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood will soon be in the hands of federal jurors in California. Prosecutors claim the prison gang ordered dozens of murders and plotted a race war inside the nation's Supermax prisons.

The spread of swine flu reaches Canada, along with five American states and Mexico. The only confirmed deaths so far are in Mexico, but U.S. officials declared a "public health emergency" to deal with the outbreak. NPR's Jon Hamilton talks to host Jacki Lyden about the latest developments.

Most of the world's population was not alive during the days of the Apollo moon program. What do young people make of this latest moonshot?