The newsletter highlights a hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has led to three deaths since April 11. Hantavirus is a rare group of viruses carried by rodents, and the World Health Organization has said the risk to the general public remains low, stressing that this is not the start of an epidemic or pandemic.

In other major news, Iran and the United States exchanged fire while both sides said a ceasefire was holding. In Tennessee, lawmakers approved a new congressional map that redraws the state’s only majority Black district after a Supreme Court decision weakened the Voting Rights Act. Trustees at Cornell University are investigating an incident in which the university’s president bumped into students with his car during a dispute over the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Additional stories cover a decline in the number of young children in the United States leading to empty public school classrooms, and a trade court ruling that President Trump’s 10 percent global tariff is illegal. The newsletter also notes the premiere of the final season of 'Jersey Shore: Family Vacation' and the rapid creation of Canada’s first women’s professional basketball franchise, built in just 35 days.