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ships from moving two and from Iranian ports. President Trump ordered the blockade be put
“back in place in response to Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the straight-of-war”
moves. U.S. Central Command says American forces carried out more strikes yesterday, hitting dozens of Iranian sites near the straight and Iranian coastal areas over seven hours. They included missile and drone sites in an effort to further digrade Iran's ability to attack ships. Iran's health ministry says U.S. attacks have killed more than 30 people in recent days. It says these latest American strikes also wounded more than 250 others.
New data from the U.S. Children's Fund shows 77 percent of infants in the U.S. and
around the world were fully vaccinated against measles in 2025. The U.S. has a highly infectious disease that's killed more than 750 children in Bangladesh in a major outbreak. NPR's Dury Baskaran says disruptions in Bangladesh's vaccine stock pile has been a major contributing factor. In most cases, countries go through UNICEF to buy vaccines. About 2.2 billion doses a year.
But when Bangladesh's interim government took power in late 2024, the country decided to procure vaccines on its own. Dr. FM Lemango is global chief of immunization for UNICEF.
“It usually leads to delays and that's why it's exactly happening in Bangladesh and that delay”
in concluding the procurement, which finally ended up not succeeding, late with significant and extended stock cuts. Some clinics ran out of the measles vaccine entirely. Lemango says this left Bangladesh vulnerable to the major outbreak going on today, and while the new government has moved quickly to vaccinate kids now, a lot of the damage has already been done.
Dury Baskaran and Pernu's Washington. President Trump's nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention faces a Senate confirmation hearing today. NPR's Pink Long has more. Dr. Ericis Schwartz will face questions about her qualifications in vision for the role. She's a retired, rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service, who served as Deputy
Surgeon General in the first Trump administration, and is voice support for vaccines.
Public Health Veterans expect she'll be confirmed what comes next is more of a toss-up. Dr. Marcus Plesha is district health director in Atlanta, Georgia. What we really need right now is a CDC director who can step in and be a spokesperson on some of the emerging issues we're facing. It's been quite a while now that there's not really been a permanent person to do that.
If confirmed, Schwartz will take over an agency that's been struggling with workforce cuts, low morale, and added layers of political review under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s leadership. Ping Huang and PR News. This is NPR News from Washington.
Authorities in Northern California say they're still searching for three people who were missing after a charter boat capsized in the San Francisco Bay. One person is confirmed dead. A zool-doll-strom Ekman with member station KQED says about 20 people were aboard the boat at the time. The San Francisco Fire Department says the three-deck 50-foot pontoon boat was based out
of the city of Stockton and carrying mostly family members. Here's Chief Dean Crispin. Our understanding was there was some kind of memorial service that they were engaging in.
“That's why they were using this particular vessel.”
And again, they were hit by a wave or took on water and the boat capsized. Officials confirmed that three other passengers were taken to local hospitals and a dog died in the accident. The U.S. Coast Guard said it continues to search for the missing three boaters. For NPR News, I'm a zool-doll-strom Ekman in San Francisco.
Spain has advanced to the final of the men's World Cup soccer tournament with a two-nothing win over France. Spain will play the winner of today's other semi-final between Argentina and England. That game kicks off this afternoon in Atlanta. Argentina and Leonardo Messi are the defending champions.
The World Cup final is Sunday in New Jersey. The American League won last night's Major League Baseball all-star game for nothing over the National League in Philadelphia. Cody Belinger of the New York Yankees was named the game's most valuable player.
He hit a two-run single in the first inning.
The NL all-star's man is just three hits in the game. I'm Dave Madingley and PR News in Washington. This is our glass of the American Life. Do you know our show? Okay, well either way I'm going to tell you about it.
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