Today's five.

Lindsey Graham died and his sister Darline got appointed to his Senate seat and now she has to win a primary to keep it, which is a remarkable sentence. She's got Trump's endorsement but not much of his attention, and Ralph Norman — a congressman who once floated martial law — is running against her backed by the MAGA wing Trump apparently didn't fully coordinate with. Meanwhile in Wisconsin, a Democratic Socialist assemblywoman is the frontrunner for governor in a state Trump won by less than a point last cycle. The New Yorker led with her social media history. Semafor led with her chances.

Splitting up the MMR vaccine was not on any pediatrician's wish list, but here we are. Trump signed an executive order directing federal health officials to scale back vaccine recommendations and separate the measles, mumps, and rubella shots into three individual injections. Houston Public Media got an epidemiologist on the record about it. Separately, jalapeños are now being recalled across 27 states after a salmonella outbreak — which follows a lettuce recall tied to Cyclospora. Two food-safety crises running simultaneously while vaccine policy is being rewritten is a lot to process before your morning coffee. The MMR combination shot has been standard since 1971.

The National Guard has been in Washington, D.C. for a year, and the city looks exactly like a place where that sentence is complicated. Trump mobilized roughly 800 troops last August after an assault on a young DOGE-affiliated programmer became his evidence that D.C. had lost control. The deployment is expected to cost $1.4 billion through the end of his term. ABC led with how entrenched the mission has become. Reason asked why it's still happening at all. A think tank report found crime didn't drop — Trump responded by threatening to sue the think tank.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Colombia on Monday and the search numbers alone tell you how bad it is. At least 179 people are dead, over 570 injured, and more than 3,000 still missing — the kind of figures that arrive before rescue teams can fully reach everywhere the ground shook. Buildings collapsed across dozens of cities and towns. Pereira, one of the hardest-hit areas, saw streets and structures reduced to rubble. Search and rescue operations are running across multiple cities simultaneously. The missing number is the one to watch — it will either fall fast as people are found, or it won't.

LAUSD starts a new school year the way you start a road trip on fumes — optimistic about the destination, quietly stressed about the gauge. The district faces a nine-figure budget shortfall, which is the kind of number that turns "ambition is high" from a press release line into a punchline. Enrollment is down, so the money problem and the population problem are compounding each other in the way that problems do when nobody solved them the first time. A new superintendent inherits all of it. Welcome to the job.