During the 43 day shutdown last fall, TSA experienced a 25% increase in officer separations compared to that same time the year before, TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing in which lawmakers addressed the impacts of the shutdown.
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Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
ProPublica followed multiple families through their sudden separations — examining the moment itself and its aftermath — and found a wide variety of outcomes for the children.
The couple, who did not grow up knowing one another because of estrangements in their families, faced criticism from both sets of parents for the union.
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Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
The celebrity chef’s raw and darkly humorous memoir explores her family’s demise and reconstruction — through divorce, estrangements, a brother’s sudden death and another’s suicide.
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