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The kindergarten vaccination rate against the measles in Gaines County is 82%, far below the 95% needed to achieve herd immunity.

Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign aid cuts could usher in a wider resurgence.

Stream now with KPBS Passport + YouTube / Watch Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. This one-hour special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle, and nearby, communist-era Nowa Huta and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial. Then we head to bustling Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Toruń, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle. We finish in Gdańsk with handsome Hanseatic townhouses and stirring Solidarity history.

The appointment of Catherine Eschbach could raise conflict-of-interest concerns. She will also lead the downsizing of an agency that holds contractors accountable to federal civil rights laws.

After announcing Social Security recipients would be required to appear in-person at office locations, the Trump administration is now backtracking.

When Syria's new leaders shut 60 Damascus bars, drinkers protested, and the government reversed itself. It's an example of the tussle between secular and Islamist values in the new Syria.

International singing superstar, Sarah Brightman is the world's biggest selling Soprano. She pioneered the classical crossover music movement and is famed for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves. Sarah is the only artist to have simultaneously topped the Billboard dance and classical music charts. Her voice has rung out from theatres, arenas, cathedrals, world heritage centers and Olympic stadiums, bringing to life some of the world's most beautiful music. Today, she remains among the world's most prominent performers. Beginning in May 2024, Sarah will return to the stage in her first theatrical role in over 3 decades as Norma Desmond in the lavish new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard." The production will premiere in Melbourne in May 2024 at the Princess Theatre, followed by a season at the Sydney Opera House in August 2024. To close out a busy 2024, Sarah will take her "A Christmas Symphony" tour to 14 new cities in the Western United States and Mexico. Sarah Brightman on Facebook / Instagram

San Diego's Laurel and Hardy club, the Saps at Sea, presents Stan and Ollie in "Big Business" and "Great Guns", plus a cartoon and the Three Stooges comedy "Back from the Front". Admission is $10. The fun gathering includes dessert! Kids 12 and under FREE. Films start at 5 p.m., doors open at 4:30. Visit the Saps At Sea - San Diego Facebook page

A top House Democrat is asking independent agency watchdogs to investigate after NPR reporting revealed DOGE may have taken sensitive data from the National Labor Relations Board.