Lakshmi Singh

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website shows the overwhelming majority in two dozen states from California to Pennsylvania.

Five new outbreaks were reported since the start of 2026.

The CDC says that most of the cases are among those who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is not known.

The Dow has closed up 50 points.

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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

President Trump is honoring members of the special forces who helped seize ex-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month.

His visit to Fort Bragg in North Carolina this afternoon was made against the backdrop of high-stakes negotiations with Iran.

Trump told the audience of U.S.

service members that USS Gerald Ford is being sent from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East to join other warships.

At the Munich Security Conference today, the host, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, advised the Trump administration to repair and embrace the transatlantic alliance.

Merits appear today alongside U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who will address a conference tomorrow.

Back home, people across the U.S.

are facing another partial government shutdown, possibly.

The sticking point, Department of Homeland Security funding expiring at midnight.

Here's NPR's Barbara Sprine.

Members of the administration are drawing criticism for suggesting AI avatars could help address health care shortages in rural America.

Here's NPR's Windsor Johnston.

At the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Russia-Ukraine war is on the agenda.