ISTANBUL - Danah Harbi went to another doctor's appointment this week without her fiance, as she has for most of her six-month pregnancy, as she has for all manner of appointments and engagements during their long, forced separation. Maybe they will be together when the child is born this spring, but the last few years have been cruel and capricious, and the future has been hard to predict.

WASHINGTON - One of the first moves President Donald Trump made after taking office in 2017 was to implement what became known to critics as his "Muslim ban," a policy that restricted people from certain countries from traveling to the United States. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged that one of his first actions after taking office on Jan. 20 will be to eliminate that ban.