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Pauline Cafferkey is now in isolation at the Royal Free Hospital in North London, where she was treated in January for Ebola.

Scottish Nurse Who Recovered From Ebola Is Back In Isolation

Pauline Cafferkey, who caught the virus last winter in Sierra Leone, was taken to the hospital with an "unusual late complication" from her previous infection. That's a surprise — and a concern.

PBS NEWSHOUR co-anchors and managing editors Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill.

PBS NEWSHOUR Election Night Coverage 2016

Airs Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 at 5 p.m. on KPBS TV

Investigators inspect a truck following a shooting incident in New York on Tuesday. Eight people were killed and at least 11 others injured in New York on Tuesday when a suspect plowed a vehicle into a bike and pedestrian path in Lower Manhattan, and struck another vehicle. A suspect exited the vehicle holding up fake guns, before being shot by police and taken into custody, officers said.

Suspect In New York City Truck Attack Planned 'For Weeks,' Police Say

Sayfullo Saipov, the man suspected of killing eight people after driving onto a bike path in Manhattan, is in the hospital. Authorities say he left a note declaring the attack in the name of ISIS.

Students are shown walking on the campus of San Diego State University, Feb. 8, 2016.

SDSU, CSUSM Students Begin Fall Semester Monday

Almost 11,000 new students are scheduled to begin the fall semester Monday at San Diego State University, while others will begin classes in the North County at Cal State San Marcos.

Less than a month after being airlifted from Liberia, Dr. Kent Brantly will be released from the hospital where he's been treated for Ebola.

'I Am Thrilled To Be Alive': American Ebola Patients Released From Hospital

Dr. Kent Brantly and another aid worker, Nancy Writebol, were flown back to the U.S. earlier this month after contracting the deadly virus in Liberia.

Leena Khandwalla, 44, at her family home in Karachi, Pakistan. After members of her religious community in the U.S. and Australia were arrested for performing female genital mutilation, she decided to go public about her childhood experience of undergoing FGM.

A Secretive Sect Opens A Debate On Female Genital Mutilation

The Bohras, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, practice cutting as a clandestine ritual. Now, the arrest of a Bohra doctor in Detroit for performing FGM has inspired a frank discussion in Pakistan.

Riley Knoxx has met Beyoncé three times, including one sit-down talk. "It's the greatest thing to have her blessing and to know she loves what you do," Knoxx says.

Becoming Beyoncé On Stage Helped One Trans Woman Come Into Her Own

For Riley Knoxx, emulating the pop star transformed her career and personal life — building confidence in herself as an artist and as a transgender woman.

American patients infected with Ebola will be treated in an isolation room like this one at Emory University Hospital.

First Ebola Patient Has Arrived In U.S. From Liberia

The first of two American aid workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia arrived in Atlanta today to begin treatment.

The Public Theater's production of Julius Caesar in New York's Central Park features a titular character who wears a Donald Trump-like costume and is stabbed to death onstage.

Delta, BofA Drop Support For 'Julius Caesar' That Looks Too Much Like Trump

A New York production's Caesar has blond hair, a fondness for long ties and a wife who speaks with a Slavic accent. Delta said the assassination tale "crossed the line on the standards of good taste."

The elderly lungfish had been in Chicago since the 1933 World's Fair.

'Iconic' And 'Loveable': Remembering An Elderly Lungfish Named 'Granddad'

Chicago's Shedd Aquarium released an obituary of more than 1,000 words for the recently departed 4-foot-long fish. It had arrived before the 1933 World's Fair, and was seen by some 104 million guests.

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