When Mary Cooper downsized her home, she brought boxes of her late mother’s belongings to her new home. Sorting through them ...

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was briefly closed due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.

Cooper spent the next few hours digging into her grandfather’s ancestral records and flipping through the book with library staff. At one point, Cooper recalled, they came across an image of a ...