By Alex Leeds Matthews, Henrik Pettersson, Gillian Roberts, CNN

(CNN) — The World Health Organization this week declared an outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa to be a public health emergency. Health officials are racing to trace contacts as the count of suspected cases rises.

CNN is tracking the locations of confirmed cases in the outbreak, as well as historical cases and deaths. This page will be updated as further details become available.

While the global risk remains low, WHO has called the outbreak a matter of “international concern.” The United States has issued travel restrictions for certain travelers from Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan.

An outbreak last decade was the largest and most devastating in the history of the disease. WHO has warned that the current outbreak could be on track to be among one of the larger ones, given the pacing and increasing of deaths.

Previous outbreaks have spanned continents, though the majority of cases have been concentrated in Western and Central Africa.

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Un agente de policía jubilado de Tennessee, que estuvo en prisión más de un mes tras ser detenido por la policía a raíz de una publicación en Facebook de un meme relacionado con la muerte de Charlie Kirk, llegó a un acuerdo extrajudicial debido a “encarcelamiento ilegal” por un valor de US$ 835.000.

Según el acuerdo anunciado este miércoles, Larry Bushart aceptó retirar la demanda, presentada hace cinco meses, en la que alegaba que se habían violado sus derechos constitucionales cuando las autoridades del condado de Perry, en Tennessee, lo mantuvieron en prisión durante 37 días el otoño pasado.

“Me complace que se hayan reivindicado mis derechos amparados por la Primera Enmienda”, declaró Bushart en un comunicado este miércoles. “La libertad de las personas para participar en el debate civil es fundamental para una democracia sana”.

El caso, que Bushart presentó con la ayuda de abogados de la Fundación para los Derechos Individuales y la Expresión, tenía previsto ser juzgado a finales de julio ante un jurado federal en Memphis. No había solicitado una cantidad concreta de dinero en la demanda.

Los abogados de Bushart afirmaron en documentos judiciales el año pasado que su cliente, principal sustento de su familia, perdió el trabajo que había conseguido tras jubilarse debido al tiempo que pasó en prisión, y que este episodio había frenado su “participación en el debate político en línea, ya que teme que algo similar a su detención y encarcelamiento pueda volver a ocurrirle”.

Sus problemas legales comenzaron diez días después de que Kirk, un antiguo partidario del presidente Donald Trump que trabajó para conseguir su reelección en 2024, fuera baleado durante un acto al aire libre en la Universidad del Valle de Utah el 10 de septiembre.

Bushart compartió en Facebook un meme sobre una vigilia que se celebraba en Tennessee en memoria de Kirk.

“Esto parece relevante hoy”, decía el meme, que incluía una foto de Trump y una cita del entonces candidato pronunciada en 2024 tras un tiroteo en el instituto Perry High School de Des Moines, Iowa.

“Tenemos que superarlo”, se cita a Trump diciendo en el meme, en referencia al tiroteo en el instituto.

Al día siguiente, cuatro agentes se presentaron en el domicilio de Bushart, lo detuvieron y lo llevaron a la cárcel por “amenazar con cometer un acto de violencia masiva en un centro educativo”. De acuerdo con los registros judiciales, las autoridades afirmaron en aquel momento que, a nivel local, la publicación se interpretó como una amenaza contra un centro educativo de la zona cuyo nombre era similar al del centro donde sucedió el tiroteo de 2024.

Bushart permaneció en prisión durante 37 días porque no pudo pagar la fianza de US$ 2 millones que se le impuso. A finales de octubre, un fiscal del distrito de Tennessee solicitó que se retirara el único cargo que se le imputaba, y posteriormente fue puesto en libertad.

Su demanda acusaba al condado de Perry; a Nick Weems, el sheriff del condado; y a Jason Morrow, un investigador del condado que participó en la investigación sobre Bushart, de una serie de infracciones constitucionales, entre ellas violaciones de su derecho a la libertad de expresión y de su derecho, amparado por la Cuarta Enmienda, a no sufrir “detenciones, procesamientos y encarcelamientos indebidos”.

En virtud del acuerdo, el condado, Weems y Morrow no admiten ninguna irregularidad en la terrible experiencia del año pasado. La aseguradora del condado pagará la indemnización.

“Como sheriff, no hay responsabilidad que me tome más en serio que la de proteger a los niños de nuestra comunidad, que son algunos de los más vulnerables entre nosotros”, declaró Weems e

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By Scottie Andrew, CNN

(CNN) — Everlane, a company that promised shoppers affordable and ethically defensible clothing, may be over as customers have known it.

Shoppers are rattled by reports that Everlane, the former direct-sales retailer that promised sustainably made clothes, is being purchased by fast-fashion giant Shein. The $100 million deal was made to absolve Everlane’s $90 million in debt, Puck’s Lauren Sherman reported. (Representatives for Everlane, its majority owner L Catterton and Shein have not confirmed the sale.)

“Cool cool need to go buy 46 white t-shirts before the formula changes,” writer Sophie Vershbow posted on X. (In a screenshot, it appeared she only bought three.)

For customers partial to its boxy T-shirts and sturdy jeans, Everlane’s affordable prices and commitment to “radical transparency” eased their guilt about buying new stuff. Since its launch in 2010, Everlane broke down pricing and production costs and traced its garments’ manufacturing and material origins, which customers could easily find on its site. Shein, a company routinely accused of shoddy quality and unsafe working conditions for its employees, feels incompatible with a brand built on sustainability. (The sustainable fashion watchdog group Good on You rated Everlane as “good” in terms of its sustainability, a holistic score that takes into account labor practices, waste output and materials, calculated from company-reported and third-party data and accreditations. The same site rated Shein as a brand to avoid.)

“This was a brand founded on ethical consumption, which is the complete opposite of what Shein stands for,” said Shawn Grain Carter, an associate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology who teaches courses on sustainable style. “Fast fashion is the antithesis of sustainability. It’s cheap labor, it’s produced at any cost and rarely is it done in an ethical supply chain. So to have an acquisition by a company that goes directly against the core values of your core customer is problematic in many ways.”

Plenty of brands make durable basics, some of them under “sustainable” banners. But after more than a decade of building a customer base who just wanted to buy a bunch of elevated, office-friendly clothes in neutral hues without guilt, Everlane reportedly agreeing to the sale feels like a “betrayal” of its values and its regular shoppers, Grain Carter said.

“It almost feels personal, that this is how it ends,” said Madeleine Alizadeh, a fashion writer who started her own small brand, DariaDeh, with similar sustainable aims.

Kirstie Wang, a small business owner from the Bay Area who’s accused Shein of stealing her designs, said in an Instagram reel that news of the rumored sale made her cry.

“I think I just really looked up to them, and half my closet is Everlane,” she said in the video. “How did they swing the pendulum so far that they’re able to sell to the radical opposite of what they stood for?”

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By Davis Winkie, CNN

(CNN) — A US military-owned surveillance blimp operated by Customs and Border Protection contractors near Laredo, Texas, broke free from its tether on Monday evening and later crashed in Mexico.

The blimp did not carry a crew when in the air, and no ground personnel were injured in the incident.

The 66-foot surveillance blimp’s tether cable, which secures the balloon to the ground, became tangled with other cables amid storms on Monday, a spokesperson for Joint Task Force-Southern Border, confirmed in a statement to CNN.

That evening, a nearby airport experienced heavy thunderstorms that brought wind gusts as high as 44 miles per hour, according to National Weather Service data.

The aircraft’s operators tried to untangle the cables, the spokesperson said, but the helium-filled blimp “became untethered” and floated away. The military declined to say which specific model of balloon was lost, only describing the aircraft as a “medium aerostat.”

CBP operates surveillance blimps across the region. Some are equipped with high-powered cameras, and others carry radar systems that detect drones and other aircraft operated by smugglers.

The runaway balloon’s location was unknown until Mexico’s military discovered it “in a remote location … southwest of Laredo,” according to the spokesperson. Mexican and US troops are coordinating to recover the aerostat.

A CBP spokesperson did not reply to a request for comment.

Border Patrol began using small “tactical” blimps for surveillance in 2012, but the program has periodically run out of funding. Many of the aircraft belong to the Department of Defense, which spent more than $5 billion to develop and purchase more than 140 surveillance blimps during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, according to a Government Accountability Office report published in 2012.

CBP lost an even larger surveillance blimp in March 2025, when a 200-foot aerostat operating on South Padre Island, Texas, broke free from its tether and floated nearly 600 miles before careening into power lines near Dallas.

CPB, which oversees Border Patrol, plays a crucial role in President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure the US-Mexico border and restrict illegal immigration.

Trump’s emphasis on hardening the border has brought CBP a litany of military manpower and equipment as well, sometimes with unintended consequences.

In February, CBP’s use of a high-energy anti-drone laser system furnished by the Pentagon to shoot down balloons led the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly shut down civilian airspace over El Paso, Texas.

Davis Winkie’s work at CNN is supported by a partnership between Outrider Foundation and Journalism Funding Partners (JFP). CNN retains full editorial control of the reporting.

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