Analysis: Growing bipartisan alarm in Congress over measles outbreaks amid falling vaccination rates
-- House Democrats have crafted a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in response to comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar suggesting that supporters of Israel are showing “allegiance to a foreign country.”: “The draft resolution ‘acknowledges the dangerous consequences of perpetuating anti-Semitic stereotypes’ and ‘rejects anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people of the United States.’ But it does not specifically rebuke Omar.
The reporter, the Sacramento Bee’s Dale Kasler, sat on the ground in handcuffs for about an hour before being released with no charges.: “Critics accused the force of overreacting after days of protests against the ruling that there won’t be charges for the two officers who killed Clark in his grandmother’s backyard after mistaking an iPhone in his hands for a gun. ‘I’m very disappointed that the protest ended the way it did.
-- School officials in California are investigating photos taken at a high school party showing red plastic cups arranged in the shape of a swastika. -- Gun use among U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents is dropping as fewer people cross the border illegally. THE NEW WORLD ORDER: “Some officials said Trump grouses at times that Bolton has pursued an independent foreign policy that isn’t always in line with the administration’s ‘America First’ agenda and has berated him for some of his public remarks on the Middle East and North Korea.
-- The U.S. tightened its Cuban embargo, reversing two decades of policy toward the island and allowing lawsuits by American citizens against Cuban government entities that trafficked in property confiscated six decades ago by Fidel Castro’s government.
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