Latest line: A good week for school children, a bad one for Catholic church

School children

Anti-vaccine activists fail to qualify a ballot measure to block a new California law restricting medical exemptions for vaccines, even as a measles outbreak in Samoa kills 70, mostly young children.

Catholic church

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issues subpoenas to half of the state’s Catholic dioceses, as part of a widening investigation into decades of sexual abuse of children by priests.

Michael Bloomberg

Former New York City mayor is endorsed by mayors Sam Liccardo of  San Jose and Michael Tubbs of Stockton in Democratic presidential race. But polls show him sixth statewide, at only 5%.