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The number of measles cases in the United States has reached a 25-year peak, propelled by the spread of misinformation about the vaccine that can prevent the disease, federal health officials said on Monday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 704 cases as of April 26, a 1.3 percent increase since the most recent tally of 695 reported on Wednesday. The vast majority of cases have occurred in children who have not received the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, which confers immunity to the disease, officials said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GKuWzP

Senator Richard Lugar, a leading US voice on foreign policy for decades and a onetime presidential candidate known for his civility and bipartisan ways, has died at a medical center in Falls Church, Virginia. Lugar died of chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy, according to a statement from the Lugar Center in Washington, a global policy institute which he founded in 2013. A soft-spoken Republican moderate, Lugar was twice chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and built a reputation as one of Washington's most influential foreign-policy voices during the record six terms he represented Indiana in the Senate. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2vpL707

US regulators considered grounding some Boeing 737 MAX planes last year after learning of a problem with a system that is now the main suspect in two deadly crashes, a source close to the matter said. Investigators in the Lion Air crash in October off the coast of Indonesia and the Ethiopia Airlines disaster in March have zeroed in on the planes' anti-stall system, called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS. Last year, inspectors with the Federal Aviation Administration discovered Boeing de-activated a signal designed to advise the cockpit crew of a malfunctioning of the MCAS system, the source said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Px32v9

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke on Monday announced his first major policy initiative, a $5 trillion plan to combat climate change that he says will keep the Earth from sliding past the point of no return in less than a generation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2ZMcAaq

The country will swear in its 126th emperor on Wednesday from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GSauxW

KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka (AP) — Suicide bombings at a militants' safe house have shaken the simple homes of this east Sri Lankan town as well as the rest of this idyllic coast, as the investigation into the Islamic State-claimed Easter bombings has spread here. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2L8qTTb

REUTERS/John GastaldoPOWAY, California—An intense political debate broke out at a candlelight vigil on Sunday for the dead and wounded of Chabad of Poway synagogue, where mourners argued whether it was a lack of gun control, or a lack of political self-control, that led to this terrorist attack.A 19-year-old nursing student who penned a virulently racist manifesto is accused of opening fire on the congregation the day before, killing congregant Lori Kaye, who died when she stepped between the gunman and Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, effectively taking a bullet for her spiritual leader. Authorities say they are investigating the attack as a hate crime.Hundreds gathered in Valle Verde Park, less than a mile from the attack, including Janith Seidel, who came to the vigil to pay her respects to Kaye. and to question the absurdity of the senseless act. “I knew Lori. Everyone knew Lori,” Seidel told The Daily Beast. “She was just such a big volunteer. If you ever were involved, if you ever came t

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The Mueller investigation was supposed to be a legal process concerned with crimes. Investigators identified no crimes to charge, and so it has, naturally, become something else: no longer a theory about a criminal conspiracy — only an irritable mood.An ordeal that had been conducted under the procedures of law in accordance with legal criteria is now an ordeal that is being conducted under the procedures of politics in accordance with political criteria — or, if you prefer, with moral criteria related to Donald Trump’s character. For those who want to see President Trump impeached and who think of impeachment as a fundamentally political process in spite of its mock-trial aspect, that’s just fine. They’ll take their pound of flesh, however it is had.The problem with this point of view is that the question of Donald Trump’s personal fitness for office already has been adjudicated as a political matter: That is what happened in the 2016 presidential election. Many critics, myself includ

AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The effects of Sri Lanka's Easter suicide bombings reverberated across two faiths Sunday, with Catholics shut out of their churches for fear of new attacks, left with only a televised Mass, and Muslim women ordered to stop wearing veils in public. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2W5w8UN

The parents of slain 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy A.J. Freund are scheduled to appear in court Monday morning. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2V3YBhi

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Akihito, who says he is too old for the role, is the first Japanese emperor to stand down in 200 years. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2GQTfgt

Rod Rosenstein, who was once accused of treason by the president, exits after a turbulent two years. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2V0Ln4O

Its claim to have discovered footprints of the 'mythical beast' prompts derision on social media. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2Vy5oPL

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has not been seen on camera since 2014, vows revenge for his militants. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2UPvYzk

Navy Rear Admiral John Ring was fired as Guantanamo Bay prison commander after a month-long inquiry. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2vuJrlT

Officials say more than 700 Americans have been infected, calling the outbreak "completely avoidable". from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2DHmAIp

Torrential rain and strong winds make getting aid into the cyclone-affected area almost impossible. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2GRqujS

Talks appear to be reaching the final stretch though both sides remain divided on several key issues. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2vuHl5H

Footage showed aspiring Australian senator Steve Dickson groping women and making derogatory remarks. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2V7z1In

Lori Kaye was killed after shielding her rabbi from a gunman who opened fire at a Passover service. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2LqmVWr

The 26-year-old Muslim convert also allegedly plotted terror attacks on Jews and churches. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2WcVvE9

Dennis Muilenburg says a safety mechanism was only one factor in two fatal Boeing plane crashes. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2vsjIui

"Waterkeeper" Nabil Musa fights Iraq's water crisis, which he calls the country's gravest threat yet. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2UQTSuB

A rabbi who was injured in the deadly shooting at a synagogue near San Diego on Saturday has described the moment he faced the gunman. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2WfDjtM

A beluga whale was found with suspicious equipment off Norway's coast from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2WfNGgW

Thousands of people were told to evacuate after rising floodwaters breached a dyke following heavy rain. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2Lbt7kS

A woman from Mongolia has won the Goldman Environmental Prize after a campaign to stop mining firms destroying a critical habitat for snow leopards. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2UMgIDr

Flooding caused by torrential rains has killed nearly 40 people and left thousands homeless in Sumatra. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2LcXFTf

A university has taken on five "canine teaching assistants" to tackle student anxiety. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2GPH2rc

A tame beluga wearing a Russian harness is thought to have come from a Russian navy facility. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2J1c9CZ

North Korean state TV introduces a more casual, modern-looking weather broadcast. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2GRp6hm

A city in South Korea has put out special seating for older people at road crossings. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2PzLLBw

Emperor Akihito will be remembered as the man who began the modernisation of Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2ZNOA6P

Sports bettor James Holzhauer's unusual strategy is paying off as he crushes Jeopardy records. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2L8O5k9

What has changed since mass protests led South Africa to announce free education for poor university students? from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2J31asB

Young people on either side of a decades-old conflict seldom meet, but tech is building bridges. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2vrILxN

Following the Sri Lankan ban, BBC Reality Check looks at other countries that have imposed either a partial or complete ban on face coverings from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2Vxuj6a

Kanhaiya Kumar has emerged as an outlier in an election being seen as a battle for India's identity. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2UT7bL2

AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Latest on the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IL7eH3

Last December, police reports indicated dog feces and urine were scattered throughout 5-year-old Andrew "AJ" Freund's home. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2XJON8Z

The voyage risks further raising tensions with China but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing. Taiwan is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which also include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and China's increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols. "The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," Commander Clay Doss, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, said in a statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2vArWAZ

Japan marks the end of an era with Tuesday's abdication of Emperor Akihito, and the outgoing monarch leaves behind a much-changed country. Crown Prince Naruhito will inherit a Japan vastly different from that of the start of his father's reign, when the country was in the grip of an economic bubble and on the verge of a tech revolution. Japan's shrinking population is among the country's most pressing social and economic issues. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2V6gLz2

Human error may be to blame for the Seattle crane collapse on Saturday that killed four people and injured another four, experts said based on videos. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Le1cAV

“Robert E. Lee was a slave owner and a brutal slave master. Robert E. Lee was a loser.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2ZMULIj

Sandy Huffaker/AFP/GettyPOWAY, California—Nineteen-year-old nursing student John T. Earnest, who was charged with murder Sunday as the lone gunman in the deadly Poway Synagogue shooting, played piano for hours a day and earned a 4.31 grade point average. His father was a church elder whom neighbors called “the sweetest man.”But somewhere on his path, Earnest took a terrible turn, claiming Adolf Hitler as an idol and writing what appears to be his own rambling manifesto that Jews “deserved nothing but hell.” He wanted to be the one to, as he put it, “Send. Them. There.”Police say someone purporting to be him posted the anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, white supremacist “manifesto”—which eerily mirrored the Q&A; style that Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant used in his own pre-massacre diatribe—about 20 minutes before he walked into the Poway synagogue with an AR-15 style assault rifle and started shooting—killing one woman and injuring three others—before the gun malfunctioned and he

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres demanded Monday that the world "step up to stamp out anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, persecution of Christians and all other forms of racism, xenophobia, discrimination and incitement." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GIYUUI

The woman killed during Saturday’s San Diego synagogue shooting stepped in front of the bullets aimed at her longtime friend and rabbi, friends said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IOyBA8

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Senator Richard Lugar, a leading US voice on foreign policy for decades and a onetime presidential candidate known for his civility and bipartisan ways, has died at a medical center in Falls Church, Virginia. Lugar died of chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy, according to a statement from the Lugar Center in Washington, a global policy institute which he founded in 2013. A soft-spoken Republican moderate, Lugar was twice chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and built a reputation as one of Washington's most influential foreign-policy voices during the record six terms he represented Indiana in the Senate. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2vpL707

United Airlines is covering up all the cameras on the back of customers' seats amid backlash about privacy. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IZ0ULr

Ocasio-Cortez called the series of bombings in Sri Lanka, which death toll has risen to 290, “horrifying.” “The Sri Lanka massacre was horrifying. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GQtk8R

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer lays out how Republicans are going to compete against Democrats in 2020. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2DFiiBd

A rally in the dollar faltered on Monday with strong U.S. data doing little to lift the currency or convince investors that a slowdown in activity is over. The greenback traded in a narrow range as Japan kicked off a week of holidays, typically a period of thin liquidity that can prompt spikes in volatility. A Federal Reserve policy meeting, Brexit negotiations and a raft of global data including on U.S. core inflation and payrolls could each be the trigger for big currency swings this week. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2PCN9TL

Japanese police on Monday arrested a 56-year-old man in connection with two paring knives found at the school desk of Prince Hisahito, grandson of Emperor Akihito, local media reported. The incident comes as authorities were beefing up security ahead of the popular emperor's abdication on Tuesday after a 30-year reign, the first monarch to relinquish the throne of the world's oldest imperial family for two centuries. Akihito's eldest son, 59-year-old Crown Prince Naruhito, will take the throne on Wednesday in a series of ceremonies. Hisahito is the son of Naruhito's younger brother and the last eligible male heir. Japan's centuries-old succession would be broken if Hisahito does not have a male child as the Imperial Household Law, in place since 1947, does not allow women to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne. Japan's Imperial family The suspect, identified as Kaoru Hasegawa, was arrested on suspicion of illegally entering the premises of the junior high school the

An attack that sank a carrier with significant casualties, on the other hand, might well result in demands for vengeance, the specific circumstances of the attack notwithstanding. This could put U.S. policymakers in the awkward position of needing to escalate, without being able to use some of the most lethal military options in their toolkit.Since the 1950s, the supercarrier has been the most visible representation of U.S. military power and maritime hegemony. Although supercarriers have participated in nearly every military conflict since the commissioning of USS Forrestal in 1955, no carrier has come under determined attack from a capable opponent. In part, this is because supercarriers are very difficult to attack, but the symbolic grandeur of the massive ships also plays a role; no one wants to know what the United States might do if one of its carriers came under attack.(This first appeared several months ago.)What would happen if a foe attacked a United States Navy (USN) aircraf

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man suspected of killing his parents and five other people in two rural Tennessee homes stole the car of one of the victims and was wearing a blood-stained T-shirt when he was seen, telling acquaintances the stain was just chocolate, according to authorities and court documents. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2V2pHWc

Wall Street was flat but holding near record levels just after the open on Monday as investors awaited a fresh set of corporate earnings during week loaded with economic data. Markets were also absorbing an upbeat report on consumer spending for March, which showed a big jump at the end of the first quarter. The data come as the Federal Reserve is due to begin its latest-two day policy meeting on Tuesday but is overwhelmingly expected to leave interest rates untouched. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2UKHUTa

Biden is an establishment Democrat with a long record of bipartisan deals ranging from budget accords this decade to a now-maligned 1994 crime bill. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, was an early adopter of ideas including single payer health insurance and a $15 federal minimum wage, that have rapidly gained traction in the progressive base. For the moment, Biden, 76, and Sanders, 77, lead the pack in virtually every poll, buoyed by strong name recognition. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2vsDlCP

Corey Ballentine, "Avengers: Endgame" and more of the weekend's top news. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GL4Hce

The United States signed a document agreeing to pay North Korea for the care of American Otto Warmbier but never paid the $2 million Pyongyang demanded, White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday. Bolton, who said he was not part of the administration at the time, confirmed newspaper reports that North Korea demanded the money before Warmbier was flown out of Pyongyang in a coma on June 13, 2017. Asked whether U.S. envoy Joseph Yun signed the document when he went to retrieve Warmbier, Bolton told "Fox News Sunday" in an interview: "That is what I am told, yes." He said no payment was made. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2V0N7eA

via FacebookPOWAY, California—The parents of John Earnest, who allegedly opened fire on a synagogue Saturday, called their son evil on Monday.“We are shocked and deeply saddened by the terrible attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue,” the family said in a statement released through an attorney. “But our sadness pales in comparison to the grief and anguish our son has caused for so many innocent people. He has killed and injured the faithful who were gathered in a sacred place on a sacred day. To our great shame, he is now part of the history of evil that has been perpetrated on Jewish people for centuries.” On Saturday morning, Earnest entered Chabad of Poway with an assault-style rifle and allegedly opened fire, killing one woman and wounding three others, including a rabbi. Twenty minutes before the attack, Earnest published a virulently anti-Semitic manifesto repeating centuries’ old libels against Jews as justification for murdering them. The message said he idolized Brenton Tarra

When Washington recognized Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s rightful president, Trump administration officials clearly hoped that incumbent Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power would not last long. There were reasons for such optimism. The socialist regime’s corruption and grotesque economic mismanagement had reached crisis levels. Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, had transformed Venezuela from one of Latin America’s most prosperous countries into a poverty-stricken horror marked by runaway inflation and severe shortages even of the most basic consumer necessities. Venezuela was the latest exhibit in the museum of socialist calamities. Maduro’s popularity had plunged, and his implementation of ever more autocratic measures to suppress opponents did not help his situation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IOXtYn

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia tech staffing company has apologized after an online job posting sought "preferably Caucasian" applicants. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Wdq9gF

In my senior year of high school, as college decisions were released, opening the financial aid award letters was scarier than the decisions themselves: the final number, or net cost, could make or break my ability to attend university. To confuse matters, without an understanding of financial aid terms, award letters can be hard to Continue Reading from ED News http://bit.ly/2V5ouxi

Welcome to the White House. I'm grateful for the members of the Council of Chief State School Officers and their work on behalf of students. I enjoyed our conversation earlier this month and look forward to continuing to work with you on ways we can ensure every student in America has access to a great education. And I'm always so pleased to be with teachers, especially all of you here today—the best of the best! Congratulations and thank you for all that you do for your students. Teachers do a lot. Some of which is visible, but much of which goes unseen. from ED News http://bit.ly/2IQl2QC

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KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (AP) — As Sri Lanka's long civil war ended in this once-contested region along its eastern coast, Muslim women eager to show their piousness began wearing the black niqab veil to hide their faces. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2WcLCGx

Alternatively, the F-35A might be assigned to dangerous suppression or destruction of enemy air defenses (SEAD/DEAD) missions. The stealth and onboard jamming capabilities of the F-35 would make it more survivable than the ROKAF’s 4th generation aircraft in such a role.The ROKAF, South Korea’s Air Force received their first F-35A fighter jets in April 2019. The ROKAF hopes to eventually buy forty F-35As and should have ten F-35As by the end of the year.(This first appeared several weeks ago.)But how do these aircraft fit into the ROKAF’s existing fleet of aircraft? What role could they play in countering the North Korean KPAF?The ROKAF already fields a variety of advanced American fighters, including over one hundred KF-16Cs and around 60 F-15K Slam Eagles. The KF-16C is fully integrated with the American AMRAAM air-to-air missile, which the ROKAF fields in the AIM-120C-5 and AIM-120C-7 variants.The combination of the KF-16C and AMRAAM vastly outclasses the majority of fighters the KPA