High stakes at Harvard, measles misinformation, the truth about ‘chalet girls’: Catch up on the day’s stories
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👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Measles misinformation is spreading in the US, a new poll found, and most people aren’t sure what they believe. False claims are circulating, including that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine causes autism. It doesn’t. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 1️⃣ Funding freeze: Harvard’s fight with President Donald Trump’s administration is just getting started. As the nation’s most prestigious university squares off with the federal government over academic autonomy and control, the stakes are high. ➕ Trump is set to take aim at the college accreditation process with a new executive order. 2️⃣ Breathing hard: Air pollution levels keep getting worse for more people in the US, according to a new report. Particle pollution threatens human health because it’s so tiny, and experts say proposed deregulation plans will make it even harder to get clean air. 3️⃣ Agreeing to disagree: Alliances among the nine US Supreme Court justices can shift back and forth, as seen in recent cases over the mass deportation of migrants. But when it comes to religion, there’s a clear ideological divide. 4️⃣ Enduring legacy: Despite being dead for more than 300 years, an Indian ruler is still making waves. Aurangzeb Alamgir, an emperor during the famed Mughal dynasty, has become a central figure in the nation’s politics. Millions of people are angry.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth heads to Capitol Hill for a series of Congressional hearings over the next week that are likely to be a major test of his leadership following what is widely viewed as a rocky first few months on the job.
New Jersey voters will select their nominees for governor on Tuesday, testing the direction of the Democratic and Republican parties in a state that shifted towards President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Late Sunday, as protesters against federal immigration raids clashed with law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division sent out a warning:
Estrellazul Corral joined protests outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center every day this weekend to demand justice for the dozens of migrants detained by armed ICE agents in armored vehicles who targeted jobsites in the city’s predominately Latino communities.
A relative state of calm in Los Angeles began to crumble early Sunday afternoon as demonstrators confronted federal authorities guarding a downtown detention facility where chaos erupted as National Guard soldiers deployed tear gas on an increasingly agitated crowd.
Canada will meet NATO’s military spending guideline by early next year and diversify defense spending away from the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday, asserting that Washington no longer plays a predominant role on the world stage.
President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan argued Monday that it was necessary to deploy hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles to quell immigration protests that are happening in the city – despite local officials saying it’s unclear why they are there or what they are doing.
The country hangs on a hugely significant precipice, as President Donald Trump moves toward making good on his long-running suggestions of an extraordinary step: deploying the military on US soil.
GOP Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, announced Monday that he intends to leave Congress after the House votes again on President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package.
A Chinese scientist was arrested while arriving in the U.S. at the Detroit airport, the second case in days involving the alleged smuggling of biological material, authorities said Monday.
Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, according to three people familiar with the matter, and will join the thousands of National Guard troops that were activated by President Donald Trump over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or LA’s mayor.