Heat Hits Texas, Honduras Gang Crackdown, Malaria in the US

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Texas is withering under intense heat as June is on track to be the hottest on on record globally. Honduras tries to reduce gang violence using harsh tactics that are raising questions of human rights abuses. Scientists believe they have detected cases of locally transmitted malaria in the U.S.

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0:00.0	Texas faces record breaking heat.
0:04.6	It feels like 118 degrees in places.
0:07.4	The governor just signed a law ending mandatory water breaks for construction workers.
0:11.9	So what's it like working outside?
0:13.6	I'm Leila Faldon.
0:14.6	That's Stephen Skiep and this is up first from NPR News.
0:19.7	Malaria has returned to the United States.
0:22.1	This country gets scattered cases, but normally they're only in people arriving from abroad.
0:26.5	So how did five people contract it locally?
0:29.0	Also, police in Honduras have been cracking down on gangs.
0:32.6	They blame gangs for massacring 46 women inside a prison.
0:37.5	Our colleague, Eater Peralta is following this story and helps us understand what's going wrong.
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