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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading rapidly, according to the World Health Organization. As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, there are now more than 800 suspected and confirmed cases, and at least 177 deaths.
Despite being declared only one week ago, this Ebola outbreak has already become the third
largest on record. WHO says the risk outside of the region is low, but high in Central Africa. There is some good news. On Friday, WHO official said that there have been no new cases reported in neighboring Uganda after the two that popped up last weekend.
As the virus spreads in Northeastern DRC, response teams are scrambling to contain the outbreak. There are no approved vaccines or treatments for this particular species of Ebola, so basic
“public health measures like contact tracing are key.”
WHO officials say that over 1,400 contacts of suspected cases have been notified and are being tracked for any signs of illness. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there is "slight progress" and peace talks with Iran.
This amid uncertainty over whether the U.S. is rarely worn Iran that's now in its third
month will continue, and he says serious talks are underway. Speaking ahead of a NATO Foreign Minister's meeting in Sweden, he says the straight-up harm moves, though, is a main issue. We have to start thinking about what do we do of a few weeks from now, Iran decides we don't care, we're going to keep the straights closed, we're going to sink any ship that
doesn't listen to us or doesn't pay us, then someone's going to have to do something about it. Okay, they're not just going to voluntarily reopen the straights in that scenario. So we have to start thinking about it.
“Speaking ahead of that meeting, that NATO meeting where the straight is expected to be”
a main topic lawyer is for a DACA recipient being held in Federal Immigration Detention in Arizona, say she could be released today on a $1,500 bond from Arizona public media in Tucson, Angela Jervasi reports that her case is one of a growing number of DACA detentions.
Icer asked a 261 DACA recipients in the first nine months of the Trump administration, according
to the Department of Homeland Security, and the practice hasn't stopped. Federal agents detained Carlit Dolado at 31-year-old Tucson resident on May 18th. Dolado's family says she's a DACA recipient who's lived in the U.S. since she was a year old. Her lawyer, Mo Goldman, addressed reporters after her arrest.
She's had DACA for over a decade, so the targeting of Miss Tolado and other DACA recipients is apparent. DACA provides certain legal protections for immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, but in addition to making arrest, DACA's has encouraged recipients to self-deport Angela Jervasi and PR News Tucson.
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Last night, comedian Stephen Colbert ended the late night show he's hosted for nearly 11 years. And here's Mondali Delbarco reports on how he said farewell to the highly rated program that CBS canceled claiming financial reasons. For his finale, Stephen Colbert was joined by his mentor John Stewart, host of The Daily
Show, and by his TV friends John Oliver Seth Meyers and The Jimmy's, Fallen and Kimmel. "We came to say we're going to miss you, late night is not going to be the same without you." "Yeah, without you, where will Americans turn to see a middle-aged white man make jokes about the news?" Colbert also sang with his surprise guest, former Beetle, Paul McCartney, and in the
end, Colbert and McCartney switched off the lights of the Ed Sullivan Theater, where the Beetles debuted in America in 1964, and where the late show franchise broadcast for nearly 33 years. Finally, through visual effects, Colbert's show and the entire theater were sucked into a giant intergalactic wormhole, Mandali Delbarco and PR News.
Federal Weather officials say they expect the Atlantic hurricane season to be below average in terms of the number of storms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Noah, says they expect 8 to 14 named storms this season, which starts on June 1st. This thanks to a strong El Niño system just off South America that will interfere with
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