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MIDDLE EAST WAR | Day 227.

• Mohsen Rezaei, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said over the weekend that Iran finds the latest U.S. response to its proposal to end the war "insufficient," and threatened attacks on regional data centers, AI facilities, and telecommunications cables if active fighting resumes. [more]
• In its first attack near Iran in more than a month, the U.S. military on Saturday struck and disabled a Panama-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman that U.S. Central Command says ignored repeated warnings and tried to break the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports. [more]

UKRAINE | Today is day 1,689 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here are your updates:

• Just weeks after signing a law targeting Russia's oil and gas revenues over its invasion of Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump, citing the need to lower fuel prices, said Friday that he had struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply the U.S. with millions of tons of diesel. A bipartisan group of six senators yesterday urged the administration to "immediately reverse course," saying the deal runs counter to a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports. [more on the deal] [more on the senators]
• U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," effective immediately, but Ukrainian officials say Russia has struck several energy facilities following Trump's announcement. [more]
• Reports cite European officials as saying the Trump administration has warned that the U.S. could suspend intelligence sharing with Ukraine and European purchases of U.S. weapons for Ukraine if Kyiv does not halt its strikes on Russian energy facilities. [more]
• Bloomberg cites a senior NATO military official as saying Russia suffered more than 50,000 casualties in Ukraine last month, including as many as 28,000 killed, compared with about 5,000 Ukrainian casualties. [more]
• European Union foreign ministers today adopted sanctions on nearly 1,600 companies and individuals in Russia's military-industrial complex – a move the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, called the "single largest expansion" of the E.U.'s sanctions list since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. [press release] [more]

U.S. GUN VIOLENCE | Police in Erie, Pennsylvania, say a man fatally shot eight people, seven of them his relatives, at his home on Friday before killing himself. The incident remains under investigation. [more]

HURRICANE ISAIAS | After making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Friday night, Isaias weakened as it moved inland across the southeastern United States, where authorities say at least four people have died and hundreds of thousands of customers lost power. [more]

U.S. MEDIA | The Justice Department confirmed over the weekend that it is investigating whether five major U.S. television networks violated antitrust law by halting their shared White House pool coverage after President Donald Trump barred CNN from the grounds last month. [more]

U.S. POLITICS | A federal judge in New York last night ordered the Trump administration to cancel any remaining campaign-style television ads promoting President Donald Trump that were paid for with $20 million in Department of Homeland Security funds. [more]

U.S. IMMIGRATION | Police in Salem, Oregon, say Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used tear gas on Saturday to disperse about 30 people who were alleged to have used their cars to block in the agents' vehicles. [more]

U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE | Months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook could keep her post, President Donald Trump on Friday announced the establishment of a committee to investigate mortgage fraud allegations against her and recommend whether she should be removed. [more]

U.S. TELECOMMUNICATIONS | After SpaceX announced on Thursday that it is buying low-band wireless spectrum licenses – a step toward a Starlink mobile service for U.S. consumers – shares of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile fell sharply on Friday, wiping about $62 billion from their combined market value. [more]

U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT | Hours after former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the ICC itself, going beyond earlier sanctions on its prosecutors and judges. ICC officials characterized the U.S. move as an "assault on the rule of law" and urged the court's 125 member states to defend the court. [more]

GLOBAL ECONOMY | Speaking at the start of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, today, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said investment in artificial intelligence is keeping global growth at around 3% despite ongoing energy supply issues, but warned of an AI-related "slow-moving tsunami" of disruption to jobs, taxation, and education. [more]

YEMEN AND SAUDI ARABIA | A missile strike by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels on a passenger terminal at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed at least 12 people on Saturday. Another strike on the airport yesterday killed one person, and U.S. President Donald Trump says he is considering joining Saudi Arabia's strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. [more]

INDIA | Following a weekend crackdown in which police in New Delhi detained thousands of protesters, India's opposition parties marched toward the country's Supreme Court today to demand the resignation of the chief election commissioner over a revision of voter lists that has removed more than 130 million voters. [more]

POLAND | More than 20,000 police officers were deployed to schools across Poland today following three knife attacks at schools over four days, which Prime Minister Donald Tusk says were driven largely by the online glorification of violence. [more]

U.K. AND EUROPEAN UNION | In excerpts from an interview released yesterday, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said it is "clear" that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Burnham is expected to tell Parliament today that the U.K. must consider a new, closer relationship with the European Union. [more on Russian interference] [more on the E.U.]

SUDAN AND EGYPT | A medical group tracking Sudan's civil war says an airstrike on Saturday killed at least 13 gold miners in a disputed area along the Sudan-Egypt border. A Sudanese rights group put the death toll at 72 and accused the Egyptian military of carrying out the strike. [more]

PANAMA | Following magnitude 7.7 and 6.6 earthquakes on Friday that damaged buildings in all 10 of the country's provinces, Panama's government declared a state of emergency on Saturday as damage assessment and recovery efforts continued. Reports note that no deaths have been attributed to the quakes. [more]

NEPAL | Soldiers reached flood-hit villages along the Budhi Gandaki River in north-central Nepal today, a day after a landslide-triggered flash flood destroyed bridges and dozens of homes and left five people missing in the region. [more]

PAKISTAN | Citing the provincial government's alleged neglect of counterterrorism efforts, Pakistan's president yesterday declared a state of emergency in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and suspended its government, which is led by imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. The move comes ahead of a planned march on Islamabad by Khan's supporters demanding his release. [more]

CHINA AND TAIWAN | Citing its opposition to Taiwanese independence, China today sanctioned Paraguay's communications minister and Belize's foreign minister over their countries' diplomatic ties with the island territory, which China claims as its own. Reports note that Paraguay and Belize are among the 12 countries that formally recognize Taiwan. [more]

BELGIUM | Unions staged a second day of nationwide strikes against planned government budget cuts today, partially shutting down Belgium's public sector amidst mounting pressure on Prime Minister Bart De Wever over a stalled budget agreement. [more]

NOBEL PRIZES | Americans Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today "for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization." The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says models built on the laureates' work are now used by central banks and governments around the world to help smooth out economic booms and downturns. [full announcement] [more]

COLLEGE FOOTBALL | Following weekend games, Georgia has moved up to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 college football poll after its win at Alabama, followed by Notre Dame, Miami, Ohio State, and Indiana. [full poll] [more]

WEEKEND MOVIES | "Other Mommy" topped the North American box office over the weekend with an estimated $27.5 million in receipts, followed by "Verity" and "Resident Evil." [more]

R.I.P. | Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka, who won NFL championships as a player and as head coach of the Chicago Bears, died Friday at the age of 86. [more]

TODAY IN HISTORY | On this date in 1492, a lookout aboard the Pinta, one of the three ships on Christopher Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, sighted land in the Caribbean, most likely the island now known as San Salvador in the Bahamas. [more history]