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News Wrap: Child dies from measles amid West Texas outbreak

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, an unvaccinated child has died in the West Texas measles outbreak, Supreme Court justices seemed to side with a woman who brought a lawsuit claiming workplace discrimination because she is straight and a Baltimore judge is considering whether to reduce the life sentence for Adnan Syed to time served after prosecutors withdrew an attempt to vacate his murder conviction. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

We start the day's other headlines in Texas, where officials announced the first death from a recent measles outbreak.

0:07.0

They say the victim was an unvaccinated school-aged child who was hospitalized in West Texas last week.

0:13.0

There are at least 124 confirmed cases of the highly contagious respiratory illness across nine Texas counties. They've been mostly

0:21.6

reported among children, many of them unvaccinated. There are also nine cases in

0:26.4

eastern New Mexico. Today's fatality is the nation's first reported death from

0:31.0

measles since 2015. At today's cabinet meeting, HHS Secretary Robert F.

0:36.1

Kennedy Jr. said there were actually

0:38.2

two deaths from the recent outbreak, though the second fatality has not been confirmed.

0:43.8

At the Supreme Court today, justices seem to side with an Ohio woman who brought a lawsuit

0:49.2

claiming workplace discrimination because she is straight.

0:53.0

Marlene Ames says she was passed over for a

0:55.7

promotion at the Ohio Department of Youth Services in favor of a gay woman and then demoted in

1:01.8

favor of a gay man. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said today that workplace discrimination, quote,

1:07.0

whether you are gay or straight is prohibited. The rules are the same, whichever way it goes.

1:12.7

If the High Court rules in her favor, it could make it easier for people to pursue such

1:17.4

so-called reverse discrimination claims.

1:20.6

A Baltimore judge is considering whether to reduce the life sentence for Adnan Syed to

1:26.3

time served.

1:27.3

It's just the latest twist in a case

1:29.5

that rose to national prominence as the subject of the serial podcast more than a decade ago.

1:35.4

Syed was released from prison in 2022 after prosecutors found problems with the case. They asked a judge

1:41.6

to overturn his murder conviction for the death of his high school

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