CDC staff received an email this week telling them to avoid using more than a dozen terms or words-- including "health equity," "race," "bias," and "disparity" -- in their annual performance evaluations;

A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said on Wednesday, the first reported U.S. death from the highly contagious disease in a decade, as a Texas outbreak has grown from a handful of cases to more than 130 across two states.

A child in West Texas has died from measles, the first U.S. fatality from the virus since 2015. The outbreak, centred in the Mennonite community, has spread rapidly, with 124 cases in Texas and nine in New Mexico.