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Because you deserve a better morning.

I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious.

Another store that 80s and 90s babies grew up with is closing a ton of their locations.

We'll talk about that in today's core.

And an unlikely commencement speaker.

I'll tell you about this in Pop Stop. Good morning and welcome to the morning show podcast. My name is Anthony.

I'm Carla Marie and today is Monday, March 31st, 2025. The month is over. The core four. The four headlines you need to know.

There have been over 500 measles cases in the U.S. this year.

The outbreak is mainly in Texas where there have been over 400 reported cases.

All but two of the confirmed infections in Texas have been in unvaccinated people

or people whose vaccination status was unknown. Some other hotspot states are New Mexico, Kansas,

Ohio, and Oklahoma. In less than three months, 523 cases have been recorded in the United States.

That's more measles cases than we saw in all of 2024 and the second highest annual total the U.S. has seen in a decade.

On Friday's episode of the Morning Show podcast, I had mentioned how Vice President Vance was

going to travel to Greenland with his wife,

even though the government officials in Greenland and Denmark weren't super thrilled about that.

And the trip went exactly how everyone expected it to go.

Vice President Vance talked about how Greenland wasn't doing a good job protecting the people of their country.

And then over the weekend, when he was asked about Greenland,

President Trump did not rule out using military force to take over the country. And then over the weekend, when he was asked about Greenland, President Trump did not

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