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Data: Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA); Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosViolent crime fell sharply across the largest U.S. cities in early 2026, extending a nationwide decline that began after the pandemic-era crime spike.Why it matters: Data from 67 major U.S. law enforcement agencies show violent crime fell across major categories during the…

After three people died on a cruise ship struck by a hantavirus, authorities are actively tracking down 29 people who had left the ship. They’re trying to trace the spread of the virus. It’s a long, arduous, global process to find and notify people who might be at risk of…

A hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius has intensified scrutiny of the US public health response, with specialists questioning why federal messaging was so limited as the situation unfolded. The outbreak has reached eight cases, including three deaths, according to NPR, as concern grew over whether the…

Bill Gates has been named in online conspiracy theories linked to the ongoing hantavirus outbreak that has already killed at least three people aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship. The co-founder of Microsoft previously made comments about pandemic preparedness, and his words are now being misrepresented as part of the spread…

Members of the press report from an expected reception point for passengers from the MV Hondius at the Granadilla Port on May 09, 2026 in Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands, Spain. Manu Fernandez/AP hide caption toggle caption Manu Fernandez/AP The first plane carrying passengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship…

Students take in the offerings at Sudbury's Cambrian College's Career Fair Conference in February. A report released Friday by Statistics Canada shows young workers (those under 24) saw their unemployment rate jump to 14.3 per cent from 13.8 per cent in the first four months of 2026. In 2020, before…

The recent coverage of a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is painfully familiar to cruisers who spent days and weeks trapped in their cabins at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Three passengers from the MV Hondius have died, two of whom had confirmed cases…

AS DAILY NEWS emerges of a virus causing a quarantine on the high seas, many people have sought to explain the ongoing hantavirus breakout through a lens they are more familiar with: the Covid pandemic. But trying to understand hantavirus – an older, rarer and far more fatal disease –…

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