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The Rest of the World Report | October 6, 2026 — Morning Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning from Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Tuesday morning, October 6th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Flavio Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil's presidential election.
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  SPEAKER_00: He finished two points ahead of President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither cleared 50%.
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  SPEAKER_00: The runoff is scheduled for October 25th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bolsonaro took 47% of the vote, while Lula took 45.1%.
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  SPEAKER_00: Polls before Sunday had Lula winning the round by around three points.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bolsonaro is a 45-year-old right-wing senator.
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  SPEAKER_00: His father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup.
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  SPEAKER_00: Flavio has said he will seek amnesty for his father if elected,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he told reporters that Brazil wants change.
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  SPEAKER_00: His Liberal Party won 121 of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lula's Workers' Party won 70.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bolsonaro's stepmother, Michelle, and his brother, Carlos, won Senate seats.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other candidates took nearly 8%, and most are right-leaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: About one in five registered voters, 21%, stayed home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since 1989, every first-round leader in Brazilian presidential elections has gone on to win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump, of course, called the result a huge victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United States has imposed steep tariffs on Brazil and sanctioned officials.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lula has accused the Trump administration of using tariffs and other means
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  SPEAKER_00: to interfere in Brazilian affairs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note, Al Jazeera and AFP read the same results through different questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Al Jazeera's correspondent in Sao Paulo,
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  SPEAKER_00: Lucia Newman, describes Lula as on a collision course with Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: She places Brazil inside a contest between Washington and Beijing and points
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  SPEAKER_00: to China as Brazil's largest trading partner.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same report compares the January 2023 Brasilia insurrection with the storming of
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  SPEAKER_00: the U.S. capital.
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  SPEAKER_00: It notes that both camps have made rigged election claims.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a frame for readers who ask where Brazil lands among the great powers.
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  SPEAKER_00: AFP asks, what moved Brazilian voters?
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  SPEAKER_00: It quotes the analyst Thomas Trauman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brazilians,
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  SPEAKER_00: he says,
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  SPEAKER_00: worry about supermarket prices,
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  SPEAKER_00: street crime, and credit card debt more than abstractions.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says Lula's campaign on sovereignty against Trump's pressure may have been a miscalculation.
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  SPEAKER_00: For U.S. readers, the two readings split on one point.
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  SPEAKER_00: In one, Trump's tariffs are part of the campaign story.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the other, voters did not respond to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brazil's runoff is October 25th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Flavio Bolsonaro leads Lula by two points.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump welcomed the result.
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S. has tariffs on Brazil, and Lula has accused Washington of interference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quebec has elected a separatist government.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Parti Québécois won the most seats on Monday and will govern in a minority.
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  SPEAKER_00: It fell short of the 64 seats needed for a majority in the 127-seat National Assembly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its leader, Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon, becomes premier.
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  SPEAKER_00: The VQ promised a third independence referendum in its first term.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saint-Pierre Plamondon says it will come while Donald Trump is still president.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump's term ends January 2029.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said a decision on independence needs conditions that are not hijacked by
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  SPEAKER_00: the theatrics of an unpredictable president.
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  SPEAKER_00: The liberals and the conservatives have both said they will never support a referendum.
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  SPEAKER_00: A minority government needs opposition votes to pass major laws and survive confidence votes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Support for independence is about 30%.
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  SPEAKER_00: Daniel Balland,
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  SPEAKER_00: a political scientist at McGill University,
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  SPEAKER_00: said the result reflects a divided multi-party system.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not read it as a surge in separatism.
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  SPEAKER_00: The PQ ends eight years of rule by the coalition Avenir Quebec.
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  SPEAKER_00: The CAQ was wiped out and Premier Christine Flechette lost her own seat.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Liberals won 40 seats and become the official opposition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Conservatives won 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quebec Solidaires won nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Mark Carney congratulated Saint-Pierre Plamondon.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said building a stronger Quebec is core to building a stronger Canada.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alberta votes in two weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: On October 19th, Albertans decide whether to stay in Canada.
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  SPEAKER_00: The alternative is a legal process toward a second binding separation referendum.
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  SPEAKER_00: Premier Danielle Smith has said she will vote to stay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Polls in early September showed the stay side with a large lead.
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  SPEAKER_00: As of early September,
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  SPEAKER_00: leaders of the separatist Alberta Prosperity Project said they had met U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: government officials three times.
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  SPEAKER_00: They claimed those officials have a direct line to the White House.
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  SPEAKER_00: U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ambassador Pete Hoekstra brushed the meetings aside as routine contacts
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  SPEAKER_00: and said no commitments were made.
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  SPEAKER_00: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Alberta a natural partner for the United States.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump had not declared support for United Canada.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nouveau, a Quebec broadcaster, treats the night as a Quebec result with a Quebec problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its lead is that the PQ will govern in a minority.
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  SPEAKER_00: That could obstruct the referendum that is its first priority.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rest of its report covers the CAQ's collapse,
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  SPEAKER_00: Frechette losing her own seat, and the Conservatives' breakthrough.
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  SPEAKER_00: AFP starts from the other end.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sets the wind against a trade war and annexation threats from the United States.
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  SPEAKER_00: It reports that the PQ leader will wait for Trump to leave office.
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  SPEAKER_00: AP and Reuters open with a test the result poses for Carney's unity message.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each is writing for a different reader.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Quebec broadcaster writes for voters who will live with the coalition arithmetic.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wires write for readers who want the Ottawa and Washington angle.
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  SPEAKER_00: For U.S. readers, the wireframe is the one that puts Trump in the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: The nouveau frame is the one that shows how little room the PQ has to act.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: A separatist party now governs Quebec without a majority.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its leader says there will be no referendum while Trump is in office.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alberta votes October 19th on whether to start down a path toward separation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The United States says its Coast Guard took gunfire from Mexico.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mexico says it found no sign of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico had no evidence of shots fired
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  SPEAKER_00: from its territory.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said no member of the National Guard, the Army, or the Navy detected any.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mexico has asked Washington for all of its evidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Coast Guard has said its personnel took gunfire from
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  SPEAKER_00: the Mexican side near Garcino, Texas on September 26th.
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  SPEAKER_00: It said they returned fire and no one was hurt and no equipment was damaged.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has not said who fired.
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  SPEAKER_00: U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ambassador Ronald Johnson wrote on X on Sunday about the border area,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote, where U.S. Coast Guardsmen were fired upon, close quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scheinbaum said Washington also sent its account in writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 500 U.S. troops have gone to the border since the incident.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mehego announced Operation Mirror on Sunday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: It puts 500 Mexican soldiers with helicopters and drones along the Tamaulipas border.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scheinbaum said Mirror operations put Mexican forces on the river alongside U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Northern Command elements and the Coast Guard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her defense and Navy secretaries proposed them to prevent incidents, she said.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said Mexico acted to avoid any situation,
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  SPEAKER_00: even though it has been given no proof the shots happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dispute sits inside older ones.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: Scheinbaum objected to Johnson announcing an international police academy
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  SPEAKER_00: in Queretaro without her government's knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Under Mexico's constitution,
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  SPEAKER_00: the federal government must approve activities of foreign forces on Mexican soil.
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  SPEAKER_00: In April, reports said two CIA agents died in a car crash in Chihuahua.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scheinbaum said neither she nor her cabinet knew of any CIA activity there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump has said he may order military strikes inside Mexico against cartels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scheinbaum has said that would violate Mexico's sovereignty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators know.
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  SPEAKER_00: El Gerardo de Mexico files a story under Mañanera, the president's daily press conferences.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gives Scheinbaum's account of the mirror operations as the cooperative answer to
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  SPEAKER_00: the disputes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It prints Johnson's post in full Spanish and her demand for proof.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forrest Mexico's version is a translation of Reuters in CESA.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither raises who has legal authority to approve foreign forces on Mexican soil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Al Jazeera does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sets the shooting beside the Queretaro Police Academy,
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  SPEAKER_00: the April CIA crash, and Trump's threats to strike cartels.
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  SPEAKER_00: In that account, the argument is about serenity, and the gunfire is one episode in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Mexican dailies report what Scheinbaum said and nothing more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Al Jazeera reports what was built up around it.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: U.S. and Mexican troops now patrol the Rio Grande.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Coast Guard says it was fired and fired back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mexico says it has seen no evidence and wants Washington's proof.
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  SPEAKER_00: French police have held 5,060 people since the school protests turned violent.
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  SPEAKER_00: 87% were minors.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Justice Ministry gave the figure Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: prosecutors have charged 1,802 people, 319 adults, and 1,483 minors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourteen are in pretrial detention and four of those are minors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin told prosecutors to seek civil liability from
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  SPEAKER_00: the parents of arrested minors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Students have blocked high schools since late September over missing teachers,
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  SPEAKER_00: overloaded timetables, and run-down buildings.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government counts 215 students, 715 police officers, and 85 teaching staff as injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: 24 schools have been burned or ransacked.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Monday, 589 of France's 3,700 high schools and 32 universities were disrupted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Several of the injured students are children.
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  SPEAKER_00: On September 28th,
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  SPEAKER_00: in Saint-Touane-le-Mont,
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  SPEAKER_00: North of Paris, a police officer fired a grenade launcher at a 14-year-old's face.
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  SPEAKER_00: Video shows the boy facing three officers.
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  SPEAKER_00: One strikes him with a launcher.
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  SPEAKER_00: He kicks the officer's leg.
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  SPEAKER_00: A second officer fires a cougar launcher at his face, and he falls.
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  SPEAKER_00: A tear gas grenade burns on the ground in front of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: His upper teeth are broken, and his jaw is immobilized.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prosecutor in Pontois says the first images show the boy hitting a policewoman
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  SPEAKER_00: who was pushing him back.
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  SPEAKER_00: His mother says he was outside the scuffles filming.
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  SPEAKER_00: His family lawyer says the shot came from about one and a half meters.
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  SPEAKER_00: His parents are filing a complaint for attempted homicide.
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  SPEAKER_00: The National Police Inspectorate, the IGPN, is examining the officer's use of the weapon.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second inquiry covers violence against the police.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Défenseur de droit has also taken up the case.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Tours, on September 30th, a 16-year-old lost the use of his right eye.
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  SPEAKER_00: The city's prosecutor said the injuries were compatible with an LBD rubber ball launcher.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prefecture said officers were being hit with projectiles while they dealt
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  SPEAKER_00: with several fires.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Lens on Monday, a 15-year-old lost a hand to a police de-encirclement grenade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prosecutors have not established whether he picked it up or landed on him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said police have opened 10 internal investigations
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  SPEAKER_00: and allegations of brutality.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amnesty International France says police use disproportionate forces on minors.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next day of action is Tuesday, today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tens of thousands are expected in Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: A coalition of education unions urge staff to join, including by striking.
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  SPEAKER_00: It includes the FSU, CGT, FO, CFDT, UNSA, Sud et Solidaires.
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  SPEAKER_00: CGT leader Sophie Binet said members would join to protect high school students.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government says it is trying to answer the grievances.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also accuses hard-left activists of hijacking the movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is pushing a bill to make people who damage public property pay for repairs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister Sebastian Le Corneau has said the money could be recovered
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  SPEAKER_00: from family allowances and housing benefits.
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  SPEAKER_00: Binet said that would hit the most vulnerable families the hardest.
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  SPEAKER_00: The unrest comes months before the 2027 presidential election.
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  SPEAKER_00: A separate bill is waiting in the Senate.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would presume that police acted lawfully when they fire their weapons.
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  SPEAKER_00: The National Assembly adopted it on July 7th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Under its text, officers who fire are presumed to have acted within the cases the law allows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translators note.
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  SPEAKER_00: France's parliamentary broadcaster reads the movement through precedent and institutions.
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  SPEAKER_00: It compares the protests with the 1990 Lycée movement,
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  SPEAKER_00: which also had no trigger law and won an emergency plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: It asks whether Tuesday can match that scale.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doubts talk of a convergence of struggles.
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  SPEAKER_00: It cites Fradgerman's view that the student and Gillet-Jean's world are not the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bondyblog says it carries the voices of the working-class neighborhoods.
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  SPEAKER_00: It works from one family.
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  SPEAKER_00: It follows the 14-year-old in Saint-Antoine-Le Mans through his operations and a fundraiser.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gives a lawyer's case for attempted homicide.
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  SPEAKER_00: Les Nouvelles Obes reported on the video first.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sets the Pantois prosecutor's account beside the mother's.
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  SPEAKER_00: The difference is which account each treats as the record.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the parliamentary channel, it is the political calendar.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the suburban outlet, it is the family.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the weekly, it is the prosecutor and the mother set against each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reuters and AFP lead with injuries and arrests.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the count a reader abroad can compare across countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: French police have held 5,060 people in the school protests.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most are minors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Several teenagers have been seriously injured and prosecutors and
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  SPEAKER_00: the Défenseurs des droits are investigating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Separately,
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  SPEAKER_00: a bill that would presume police shots lawful is waiting in the French Senate
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  SPEAKER_00: with no date set.
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  SPEAKER_00: A technician at a Russian plague research institute has died and Russia has not said of what.
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  SPEAKER_00: Daria Shipilova, 28, worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Local media identified her and she was hospitalized with severe pneumonia and died days later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia's health watchdog calls the cause pneumonia of unknown etiology.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lab tests found no microorganisms tied to her work, it says.
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  SPEAKER_00: The institute's commission and the watchdog concluded no emergency or security breach occurred.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier reports that she broke a test tube of live bacteria have not been confirmed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alexei Sidonov, who heads the neighboring republic of Buryatia, first said she died of plague.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he added the word maybe.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 200 people are under medical observation and a hospital has been quarantined.
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  SPEAKER_00: Contacts are tested daily.
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  SPEAKER_00: The test found two cases of COVID-19 and two of rhinovirus and no other infections.
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  SPEAKER_00: Irkutsk Governor Igor Kubzev said relatives in quarantine could be discharged next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Kremlin referred all questions to Rospat Trebnazzor.
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  SPEAKER_00: The World Health Organization said,
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  SPEAKER_00: based on unofficial information, that the risk to the general public is low.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plague is endemic in Siberia, and it is rare for Russians to fall ill with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump said Monday, the U.S. is ready to help.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are looking at it very strongly, he said.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he had not spoken to Vladimir Putin about it,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, I don't think it's cause for alarm.
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  SPEAKER_00: He called it a matter to watch closely.
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  SPEAKER_00: A State Department official urged Russian authorities
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  SPEAKER_00: to share accurate information quickly and openly,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the European Commission said it is watching closely too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translator's Notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The APN Reuters report is built around Washington.
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  SPEAKER_00: It leads with Trump's offer of aid and carries a State Department call for openness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump says he has not spoken to Putin about it,
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  SPEAKER_00: so the offer in this public statement is not a channel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The story becomes what the U.S. will do if Russia asks.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Moscow Times is built around Moscow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its headline is that officials are seeking to reassure the public.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sets each official assurance against what is still unknown.
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  SPEAKER_00: The outlet works from exile, and Russian prosecutors have designated it undesirable.
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  SPEAKER_00: That gives it little reason to take Moscow's account as settled.
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  SPEAKER_00: One Frame asks how Washington should respond.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other asks whether Moscow's account can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump says the U.S. will help Russia if asked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russia says the death was pneumonia of unknown cause and denies a lab accident.
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  SPEAKER_00: The World Health Organization says the risk to the public is low.
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  SPEAKER_00: New York has declared a disaster emergency over measles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Governor Kathy Hochul announced it Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: It lets more health workers give the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
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  SPEAKER_00: It runs through November 4th, and it is the first such declaration...
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  SPEAKER_00: Since the measles cases began rising in 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: New York has 108 cases this year as of October 3rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seven are in New York City and 101 are elsewhere in the state.
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  SPEAKER_00: 92 have come since July 15th in a handful of rural communities with,
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  SPEAKER_00: surprise, surprise, low vaccination rates.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one should get seriously ill or die from a vaccine-preventable disease, Hockel said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pennsylvania has passed 1,000 cases this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the largest outbreak in the U.S. in three decades.
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  SPEAKER_00: Outbreaks have also been recorded in Texas, Utah, Ohio, and South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_00: Health experts attribute the resurgence to vaccination rates below
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  SPEAKER_00: the 95% they say is needed to prevent outbreaks.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: Critics say an anti-vaccination movement has gained advocates inside
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  SPEAKER_00: the Trump administration, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S. eliminated domestic spread of measles in 2000.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last outbreak above 1,000 cases was in New York City in the early 1990s.
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  SPEAKER_00: In November,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Pan American Health Organization reviews whether the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: and Mexico keep their measles elimination status.
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  SPEAKER_00: The test is whether the same virus lineage circulated without a break for 12 months or more.
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  SPEAKER_00: The clock started on January 20, 2025 for the United States and February 1, 2025 for Mexico.
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  SPEAKER_00: U.S. health authorities are running full viral genome sequencing as part of the analysis.
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  SPEAKER_00: The region lost its status in November 2025 when the PAHO found endemic measles in Canada.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: New York's measles emergency runs through November 4th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pennsylvania has more than 1,000 cases.
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  SPEAKER_00: In November, an international body reviews whether the U.S. keeps its measles-free status.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Justice Department has filed 40 new cases to strip naturalized Americans
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  SPEAKER_00: of their citizenship.
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  SPEAKER_00: It announced them on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The complaints were filed between August 21st and October 2nd.
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  SPEAKER_00: The department said they are the largest volume of complaints submitted in
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  SPEAKER_00: a single period under Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: Attorney General Todd Blanche said the announcements mark
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  SPEAKER_00: the largest denaturalization effort in modern history.
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  SPEAKER_00: The department says the defendants are accused of serious offenses.
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  SPEAKER_00: These include acting as an agent for a foreign government,
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  SPEAKER_00: voluntary manslaughter, and child sexual abuse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Others include money laundering, visa fraud, and tax fraud.
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  SPEAKER_00: The defendants come from countries including Mexico, Pakistan, China, and Sierra Leone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two cases involve the Chinese government.
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  SPEAKER_00: One defendant, a Navy enlistee, is accused of conspiring to sell military secrets to China.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another is accused of working at the direction of China's Ministry of State Security.
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  SPEAKER_00: Prosecutors can ask a court to strip citizenship from someone born abroad.
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  SPEAKER_00: They must show the person willfully concealed a material fact in the application.
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  SPEAKER_00: The laws have been used for decades but were reserved for serious crimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: After World War II,
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  SPEAKER_00: the government moved against dozens accused of hiding involvement in the Holocaust
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  SPEAKER_00: or war crimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The practice became much less frequent after the Cold War.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Human rights groups say Trump's push to widen denaturalization could leave people stateless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Critics say he has aimed it at political rivals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last year, the administration said it would seek to denaturalize many Somali Americans.
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  SPEAKER_00: That followed a fraud case in Minnesota.
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  SPEAKER_00: Representative Andy Ogles has floated taking citizenship from New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump once floated the idea for Elon Musk.
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  SPEAKER_00: In June, the Supreme Court struck down Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship.
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  SPEAKER_00: A second executive order seeking to restrict it is in litigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: What American readers need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Justice Department has filed 40 denaturalization cases since August 21st.
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  SPEAKER_00: It calls this the largest effort of its kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each case goes before a federal court.
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  SPEAKER_00: Critics warn of statelessness and political targeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for this morning's edition of The Rest of the World Report.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you all again this evening.
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