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The Centers for Disease Control has reported that measles cases have surpassed last year’s total, with more than 2,300 confirmed cases this year. Experts say vaccination rates must rise nationwide to reverse the trend, as authorities consider the country’s elimination status. A large outbreak in South Carolina has shaped the year’s figures, prompting renewed calls for immunization.
A Kashmir-born filmmaker who sought asylum in the United States has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Washington Dulles International Airport. The advocate group Free Arfat Sheikh says he arrived in 2019 for graduate studies, sought asylum in 2020, and is currently held at a Virginia detention facility while a bond assessment and hearing proceed. ICE has not commented.