Measles Outbreak, Foreign Aid Cuts, Bolsonaro Charges

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

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Health officials are warning about a measles outbreak in Texas. Trump administration efforts to shrink the federal government have temporarily cut off funding to pro-democracy groups abroad. And Brazil's former leader Jair Bolsonaro is charged with participating in a coup.

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0:00.0	People around Lubbock, Texas are watching the spread of measles.
0:06.8	Could it grow? Absolutely it could.
0:08.8	Other places have seen it, too.
0:10.4	So what's behind the return of a disease health officials once thought they had eradicated?
0:15.0	I'm Leila Faldi.
0:16.1	That's Stevenski, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.7	It's common for countries like China to criticize U.S. efforts to spread democracy.
0:27.1	Now, democracy advocates say the Trump administration speaks the same way.
0:31.5	The geopolitical information warfare is no longer something that's happening halfway across the world, but is happening within
0:39.0	our own governments. Who's gaining from that information war? Also, Brazilian authorities filed charges
0:44.1	against a former president for a coup attempt. Do they put a former president on trial? Stay with us.
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1:28.8	Feel the difference with 15% off your first order at bollandbranchcom with code NPR. Exclusions apply. See site for details. Measles is spreading across parts of West, Texas.
1:36.4	Health officials thought they had eradicated this disease 25 years ago, but it's occasionally
1:41.7	returned most recently to five counties around Lubbock, Texas.
1:45.6	Which is where we find Samantha Larnett of our member station KTTZ. Samantha, good morning.
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