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Today
Good morning. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Colombia Monday morning, leaving more than 100 people dead and many more missing as the search for survivors continues.
President Trump signed an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines and spacing shots across separate doctor visits; Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared alongside Trump in the Oval Office as the administration targets the childhood vaccine schedule, an order that once again tries to upend vaccines protecting children against measles, mumps, tetanus and whooping cough.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar demands answers after a Department of Homeland Security agent was apparently stationed outside her Minnesota town hall, raising whether the Trump administration is using Immigration and Customs Enforcement to "surveil political opponents"; meanwhile the number of immigrant detainees and their bond amounts have skyrocketed under Trump 2.0, prompting neighbors across the country to organize mutual aid for their release.
Russia's antiwar party Yabloko has been banned from parliamentary elections after its pro-peace manifesto crossed a red line for the Kremlin; in the United States, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [declined to drop thousands of online safety lawsuits against Meta and TikTok, ruling the companies appealed the cases too early](https://thehill.com/homenews/6021367-social-media-safety-lawsuits-proceed).