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POLITICS

US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support, AP learns

The State Department said revocations would begin Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more. The revocation program will soon also be greatly expanded to cover parents who owe more than $2,500 in unpaid child support. Read more.

Why this matters:

• Until this week, only those who applied to renew their passports were subject to the penalty. Under the new policy, the Department of Health and Human Services will inform the State Department of all past-due payments of more than $2,500 and parents in that group with passports will have their documents revoked, the department said. Since the AP reported the expansion of the program on Feb. 10, the administration said it had seen data that hundreds of parents took action to resolve their arrears.

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WORLD NEWS

How public health officials are tracing people who came in contact with hantavirus victims

While health officials are fairly confident the recent outbreak will not turn into an epidemic because hantaviruses do not spread easily between people, they are contact tracing to limit the spread. Authorities are trying to reach the dozens of people who left the ship about two weeks after a passenger died but before authorities knew a hantavirus was the culprit. Read more.

Why this matters:

• The passengers were from at least 12 different countries, including from several states in the U.S. — including Arizona, California, Georgia and Texas, according to infectious disease experts and state public health officials. The goal of contact tracing is to alert people who might have been exposed, keep tabs on them in case they come down with symptoms and prevent them from spreading it to others. The process isn’t easy because people spend time with others, visit crowded places and travel.