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    Eric Garner case: July 17, 2019

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Some of the world news cartoonists weighed in on this week:

NASA is celebrating its 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this week.

More than one million people signed up to raid Area 51 on Sept. 20 to “see them aliens.”

Federal prosecutors declined to bring civil rights charges against a New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner.

The Wildlife Service put on hold a plan to airdrop 1.5 tons of poison pellets on the South Farallon Islands to kill some 60,000 mice threatening native plants and animals.

Congress held two days of hearings on Libra, the cryptocurrency planned by Facebook.

The House ordered the Pentagon to investigate whether ticks were once used as biological weapons.

Tweets by President Trump targeting four minority Democratic congresswomen sparked a nationwide debate about whether they were racist and a House vote to condemn the tweets as racist. Using the phrase “go back” to refer to the congresswomen returning to the countries their families are from—three of the four are American-born—Trump later ranted against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at a rally in North Carolina and received “send her back!” chants in response.

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