Second child dies of measles as western Texas outbreak worsens

A second child has died from the highly contagious measles virus as an outbreak in western Texas continues to grow. The school-aged child was not vaccinated, had no underlying health conditions and was in hospital suffering complications from measles, Aaron Davis, the vice president of UMC Health System, told the BBC. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has faced a backlash over his handling of the outbreak, will reportedly head to Texas this week in the wake of the death. Texas reported ...

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Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out

The financial market meltdown was underway when President Trump boarded Air Force One on his way to Florida on Thursday for a doubleheader of sorts: a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his family’s Miami resort and a weekend of fund-raisers attracting hundreds of donors to his Palm Beach club. It was a fresh reminder that in his second term, Mr. Trump has continued to find ways to drive business to his family-owned real-estate ventures, a practice he has sustained even when his work in Washington ...

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'Quitting is not part of the deal': How Houston's toughness allowed it to stun Duke

Myron MedcalfApr 6, 2025, 02:00 am and Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato SAN ANTONIO — On the day Jon Scheyer was born in 1987, Kelvin Sampson had just been hired as the head coach at Washington State. By then, he had already spent nearly a decade as an assistant at multiple stops. All of the basketball games he had won and lost — the games his teams had squandered and salvaged — over a career that spans more ...

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Ukraine will send a team to the US next week for talks on a new draft mineral deal

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine will send a team to Washington next week to begin negotiations on a new draft of a deal that would give the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable mineral resourcesEconomy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko told The Associated Press. “The new draft agreement from the U.S. shows that the intention to create a fund or jointly invest remains,” Svyrydenko said Saturday, during a trip to northern Ukraine. The delegation from Kyiv will include representatives from the Ministries of ...

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