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Loneliness and social isolation can cut almost six healthy years from your life, according to a study that quantified the impact of social problems that often plague older adults.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Russian authorities face growing international pressure to explain the death of a woman who worked at a plague research institute in Siberia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The disease is almost always fatal if treatment doesn’t begin within 24 hours of the first symptom, particularly if it reaches the lungs as pneumonic plague.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

This is the most dangerous and contagious form of plague, infecting the lungs, and the only form that can be spread from one person to another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But then I'd apparently broken out of the hospital in a rabid rampage, and every student with a cough or runny nose was now a suspected plague carrier and being rushed to the doctor.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

This is not helped by the insecurity that plagues eastern DR Congo.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

We’ve had plagues and climate change before, to some degree, but until the Manhattan Project, humans weren’t really in control of that kind of existential, destructive power.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

Acts of God are environmental: droughts, floods, locust plagues and the unusual winters that froze the Thames, contributing to recessions in 1710, 1739-40, 1762 and 1946-47.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Government inefficiency still plagues the country, and it has the worst pollution on the planet.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

One day she lifted the lid—and out flew plagues innumerable, sorrow and mischief for mankind.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The rule was plagued by delays and litigation from the for-profit college industry.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

"This is no time to return anyone forcibly to a country plagued by egregious human rights violations and abuses," UN rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

But injuries plagued the latter part of his career, with him announcing his retirement at only 30.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“I know the catastrophic mechanical issues that have plagued Metrolink trains this year have severely undermined the reliability of the system and the confidence of the riders,” said L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

We sawed pine planks while the big blue horseflies a privy draws plagued us bad.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

“Business is more robust than expected, considering some of the economic headwinds still plaguing the industry,” a wholesale executive said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Dodgers finally diagnosed the problem that had been plaguing Roki Sasaki ever since he arrived from Japan last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Nigeria's president has approved the country's largest military expansion in recent times - an attempt to tackle the slew of security challenges plaguing the nation.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Chen Chaohui, the company’s founder and CEO, described it as “a pet TikTok” to Yahoo Finance, though one hopes pets will be spared the A.I.-generated fruit videos currently plaguing human users.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026

"As I said, if it were not for the three evils plaguing the village, this village would indeed be happy."

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin