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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

The bill from a Republican senator from northeast Ohio is called the PEACE Act—Protect Elected Officials Against Coercion and Extremism.

The vaccination rate for measles, mumps and rubella fell about 3 percentage points for 2-year-olds in 2009. Insurers said paranoia about side effects are to blame for the decline. Still, more than 90 percent of the children got MMR shots.

Chipotle had argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that Sweetgreen was attempting to profit off of the burrito chain's popular chipotle chicken burrito bowl by allegedly making a near-identical menu item.

Several lawmakers wanted to propose more than two dozen amendments to the budget, but the vote in the end was overwhelming.

The testimony of Jeff Longstreth comes a little over a week after lobbyist Juan Cespedes, who has also pleaded guilty, took the stand for the prosecution in the racketeering trial of Republican former House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio GOP chair Matt Borges.

But Gov. Mike DeWine admitted in signing the two-year transportation budget that he had some concerns about one item added by the Republican chair of the committee that heard the bill.

A strike is on for Wednesday on what would have been the first day of classes. No further negotiations took place Tuesday between Youngstown City School District's teachers union and the school administration.

Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Segolene Royal have advanced to a May 6 runoff in France's presidential elections. With most of the votes counted, Sarkozy took in more than 31 percent, with Segolene second at just under 26 percent.

Under the health care overhaul, many people who find their job-based health coverage too expensive can get help buying insurance through exchanges. But rules just finalized by the Internal Revenue Service will limit who is eligible for a subsidy and could leave some families shut out.