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Stranded passengers who had been set to travel with Icelandic airline Wow Air are being forced to book new tickets and absorb unexpected costs after the airline shut down. Here, travelers wait in line at Iceland's international airport on Thursday.

Wow Air's Collapse Leaves Passengers Stuck — At Airports, And Without Travel Plans

Staff at Boston's Logan International informed customers of prolonged delays Wednesday night — only to eventually board the waiting Wow aircraft themselves and shut the door.

Costco customers roll groceries to their cars as others wait to enter the store on March 14 in San Leandro, Calif.

Grocery Stores Start To Cut Hours As Coronavirus Prompts Surge In Panic-Buying

Chains from Walmart and Target to Whole Foods and Publix are cutting back hours to give employees more time to restock shelves and sanitize stores.

Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret at the microphone for Elizabeth's first broadcast. She is the future Queen Elizabeth II of England. 1940

The Queen At War

Airs Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Saturday, May 9 at 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. on KPBS 2 + PBS Video App

Grocery Stores Start To Cut Hours As Coronavirus Prompts Surge In Panic-Buying

Chains from Walmart and Target to Whole Foods and Publix are cutting back hours to give employees more time to restock shelves and sanitize stores.

Asylum-Seekers Make Harrowing Journeys In Pandemic, Only To Be Turned Back

Rights groups accuse nations of using COVID-19 as an excuse to shut out refugees. Here's one story of migrants who attempted a risky voyage across the Mediterranean, but Malta sent them back to Libya.

The Harrowing Journeys To Safety Of Asylum-Seekers During A Pandemic

Rights groups accuse nations of using COVID-19 as an excuse to shut out refugees. Here's one story of migrants attempting a deadly voyage to Europe, only to be pushed back to where they fled.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich., on Thursday. Thirteen members of two militia groups face criminal charges after allegedly plotting to kidnap Whitmer.

Michigan Domestic Terror Plot Sends Shockwaves Through Militia World

A slew of arrests in the alleged plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan sends a message to other armed groups agitating for political violence: You are being watched.

Scientists on the research vessel Akademik Fedorov spent a week or so setting up a network of scientific monitoring equipment up to about 25 miles from the MOSAiC ship.

Studying The Ripple Effects Of Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice

Scientists have frozen their ship to an ice floe to study the causes and consequences of diminishing Arctic ice, in the hopes of improving how the Arctic is represented in climate models.

Activist Sufian Khatun worries that more frequent cyclones, triggered by climate change, will make her community in Bangladesh uninhabitable. Storm surges bring saline water into the river in the southwest part of the country where she lives, taking a toll on agriculture and the drinking water supply.

PHOTOS: Cyclones and salty water are a threat. These women are finding solutions

Storms come more often and the sea is rising, says an activist in Bangladesh. Crops are being ruined. Here's how one village is handling the situation.

San Diego County Democratic Party chairman Will Rodriguez-Kennedy speaks at an Election Night party, March 3, 2020.

Several Local Democrats Sickened With Virus, Election Gatherings Could Be Source

It now appears that the days before and after the March 3 primary were the beginning of a COVID-19 outbreak that's so far struck four members of the local Democratic Party.

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