The State Department says non-emergency U.S. embassy and consulate employees in Iraq will have to leave. That follows rising tensions with Iran, Iraq’s neighbor. President Trump dismissed a report that his national security team is reviewing a plan for more than 100,000 U.S. troops to confront Iran. David Martin reports. Source
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Vaccine protesters push to keep loophole
The CDC reports there are now more than 10 times as many confirmed measles cases in 2019 as there were in the whole of 2010. The vast majority of infections are among unvaccinated people. Dr. Jon LaPook was at the New York Capitol Tuesday where protesters gathered to fight a bill to end religious exemptions for vaccines. Source
Non-profit tax filings of vaccine opponent shows donations jumped by $1 million in 1 year
The CDC reports there are now more than 10 times as many confirmed measles cases in 2019 as there were in the whole of 2010. The vast majority of infections are among unvaccinated people. Dr. Jon LaPook was at the New York Capitol Tuesday where protesters gathered to fight a bill to end religious exemptions for vaccines. Source
Eye Opener: Alabama passes abortion ban
Alabama passes the country’s most restrictive abortion bill with no exceptions for rape and incest. Also, President Trump’s oldest son will return to Capitol Hill next month to testify in a Senate committee’s Russia investigation. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Source
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Alabama passes the country’s most restrictive abortion bill with no exceptions for rape and incest. Also, President Trump’s oldest son will return to Capitol Hill next month to testify in a Senate committee’s Russia investigation. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Source
A slain professor, 2 naked men and a suicide: “One of the strangest cases”
Man charged in the death of a University of Georgia professor at a home where authorities say the homeowner apparently killed himself after investigators arrived Source
U.S. officials say Iran’s military likely behind tanker attacks
State Department orders most personnel out of neighboring Iraq citing “serious” threat, one that a senior British commander said doesn’t exist Source
Transcript: David Sanger on “Intelligence Matters”
On “Intelligence Matters” this week, host Michael Morell speaks with David Sanger, national security correspondent for the New York Times and author of “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age” Source
Kamala Harris would ban AR-15 style assault weapons imports: source
Democratic presidential candidate and California senator will announced she’d make the move through executive action once in the Oval Office, the source says Source
The oddities on Trump’s latest China products tariff list
Forget paying more for a T-shirt — the price of a pet parrot (and many other things you didn’t know) will also climb Source