NEWS OF THE DAY

1 Wildfires: Southern California crews battled Sunday to beat back wildfires that broke out amid a heat wave. Angeles National Forest spokesman Nathan Judy said a blaze in a remote area near Lake Castaic (Los Angeles County) charred about 1,000 acres and was 10 percent contained Sunday. No homes were threatened. Residents who had to flee a small fire in the mountain community of Wrightwood (San Bernardino County) were allowed to return home. Judy said the 11-acre fire was 50 percent contained Sunday. About 35 homes were briefly threatened by the flames.

2 Homeland Security: The Department of Homeland Security says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is no longer a candidate for a position. The conservative firebrand said last month he was taking a job as an assistant secretary at the agency. Craig Peterson, a political adviser to Clarke, said in a statement that the sheriff notified Secretary John Kelly late Friday that he “had rescinded his acceptance of the agency’s offer” to join the Department of Homeland Security. The tough-talking Clarke, who is known for his provocative social media presence, is an outspoken supporter of President Trump.

3 Phone ban: Colorado officials have approved language of a proposed ballot measure that would establish the nation’s first legal limits on buying smartphones for children. Backers of the move to forbid the sale of smartphones to children younger than 13 now need about 300,000 voter signatures for the proposal to make the 2018 ballot. Retailers who sell a phone for use by a youngster could be fined $500, after a warning. The campaign is being led by Denver-area dad and doctor Tim Farnum. He said he was inspired to make the push after watching his children struggle with the psychological effects of always having a device in hand. “They would get the phone and lock themselves in their room and change who they were,” he said. 4 Missing scholar: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that will help locate a visiting scholar from China who disappeared from the University of Illinois. Yingying Zhang, 26, was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the central Illinois university when she disappeared June 9. Campus police say surveillance video shows her entering a car in Urbana that afternoon. Her friends told authorities she had gone out to sign a lease. Authorities have labeled the case a kidnapping, but aren’t ruling anything out.

5 White House tapes: The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the panel is looking forward to getting a response from the White House this week as to whether President Trump has tapes of private conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey. Rep. Adam Schiff, DBurbank, says he wants the White House to acknowledge the tapes or make clear there are no tapes and “it was an idle threat.” The panel sent a letter this month to White House counsel Don McGahn seeking an answer by this Friday.