House Won't Take Up Senate's Highway Bill, Outside Attorneys to Investigate Sandra Bland Death, Obama Considers Sanctions Against South Sudan: P.M. Links

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  U.S. Congress

  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) says they will not be considering the version of the highway transportation funding bill coming from the Senate. Yesterday the Senate used that bill to vote to resurrect the deauthorized Export-Import Bank.

• President Barack Obama and African regional leaders are discussing the possibility of sanctions against South Sudan if warring groups there don't achieve some sort of peace by August.
• A Texas prosecutor is bringing in a committee of outside attorneys to investigate the death of Sandra Bland, the woman who died in a jail cell three days after getting pulled over by police for a traffic stop.
• Today in Trump: Donald Trump aide supports Mike Huckabee's comments that the Iran deal is the equivalent of marching the Israelis to "the door of the oven."
• A Florida landscaper has been sentenced to a year in prison for animal cruelty after running over a family of ducks with a riding lawnmower.
• The Dow tumbled 127 points today in response to a massive plunge in the Chinese stock market.

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