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Ephrat Livni / New York Times:
Trump and Netanyahu Say Iran War Is Not Over  —  The Trump administration said last week that the war had run its course, but the U.S. president and Israel's prime minister in interviews on Sunday did not rule out renewed combat.  —  President Trump and Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu …
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Associated Press:
Iran responds to US ceasefire proposal but Trump rejects it as ‘unacceptable’  —  Iran sent its response to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators and wants negotiations to focus on permanently ending the war, but President Donald Trump quickly rejected it as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” with no details.
Bloomberg:
Iran Makes New Offer on Uranium in Response to US, WSJ Says
Washington Post:NEW!
Confident in China's power, Xi is ready to host an unpredictable Trump  —  Holding no illusions about making lasting deals at this week's summit, China's leader looks to project Beijing as an alternative to U.S. volatility on the world stage.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump is set …
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
What Middle Powers Fear About the Trump-Xi Summit  —  Asian nations worry that the president might trade security commitments for better economic terms with China during his planned meeting with Xi Jinping this week.  —  Poland will soon host production lines for South Korean tanks.
Discussion: UPI
NBC News:
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT's alleged role in guiding FSU shooter  —  The lawsuit claims the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.  —  OpenAI is being sued by the family of a victim killed in the April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University that left two people dead.
Natalie Korach / Status:
The Post's Opinion Divide … On Monday, as The Washington Post celebrated its two Pulitzer Prize wins, the newspaper found itself scrambling to bring back two previously laid-off video operators to help livestream the celebration because, after the company's massive layoffs in February, no one remained who could operate the system.
Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:
Democratic Angst Could Lead California to Change Its Primary Rules  —  The prospect of Democrats getting shut out of the general election for governor has spurred an effort to eliminate the state's “top-two” open primary approach.  —  Democrats have panicked all year at the possibility …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
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Pooja Salhotra / New York Times:
G.O.P. Fatigue in Iowa Strains the Republican Primary for Governor
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Democrats Search Desperately for a Response After Virginia Map Is Tossed  —  A conversation involving House members from Virginia and the top House Democrat reflected the fury and desperation that has gripped the party after Friday's ruling in the state.  —  Democrats are struggling to respond …
Robert Kagan / The Atlantic:
Checkmate in Iran  —  Washington can't reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.  —  It's hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored.
Associated Press:10 minutes ago
Democrats vow to fight $1 billion Senate security proposal for White House ballroom  —  Republicans returning to Washington on Monday are facing questions about a $1 billion Senate security proposal that could help pay for President Donald Trump's ballroom as Democrats say they will try to defeat it.
Discussion: MS NOW
Gary Sernovitz / New York Times:NEW!
'Bill Cassidy Sold His Soul to the Devil, and He Didn't Get Anything for It'  —  On Saturday, we'll get some data on how yet another Trump Tragedy will end.  Recent polls put Bill Cassidy, the senator from Louisiana, in third place heading into the first round of the Republican primary here.
Discussion: Raw Story
Milena Wälde / Politico:
EU to approve sanctions on Israeli settlers, says Kallas  —  BRUSSELS — The EU is poised to approve sanctions against so-called violent Israeli settlers, after Hungary's new government signaled it would no longer block the measure, top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Monday ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.
Discussion: RTÉ
New York Times:
Cubans Deserve America's Generosity, Not Its Cruelty  —  Alejandro, a premature baby born in Havana's Eusebio Hernández Pérez maternity hospital, weighed only two pounds when we met him in April.  We watched him as he lay in an incubator, one of the few in the building whose …
New York Times:
Putin's Forces Are Barely Inching Along on the Battlefield  —  The Russian military has yet to solve a fundamental problem: how to make big advances in eastern Ukraine when drones are everywhere.  —  President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has sought to convince President Trump that his troops …
Politico:
One American has tested positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms … In a statement Sunday evening, HHS said the State Department would airlift the passengers, transporting some of them to the Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
 
 
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:
With Commissioner Under Pressure, F.D.A. Opens Door to Flavored Vapes
Discussion: Raw Story
Russell Contreras / Axios:
America's pastor pipeline is collapsing
Discussion: NewsMax.com
David French / New York Times:
The Platner Trap
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Health insurance marketplace feels growing tremors from GOP cuts
Financial Times:
New York's rich lash out at ‘shameful’ Mamdani plan to tax second homes
Discussion: New York Post
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Clea Caulcutt / Politico:
Former PM Philippe launches presidential campaign to take on far right in France
Jan Rosenow / Bright Spots:
Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how.
Discussion: KEYT-TV
Avery Schmitz / CNN:
US intelligence-gathering flights are surging off Cuba
Discussion: Mediaite, NewsMax.com and Bloomberg
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Lawyers for the global elite aren't buying Trump's gold card visa
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story