The effort to ⁠monitor the spread of hantavirus⁠ from a cruise ship currently off the west coast of Africa is expanding, after health officials confirmed the virus on the ship is transmissible from human to human. At least 30 passengers who were potentially exposed have already gone home.

The tornado outbreak in Mississippi is one of the worst seen this season.

And, Tennessee has become the latest battleground in the congressional maps fight ahead of the midterm elections.