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Why this matters:

• Further details were not immediately available, including more specifics on the threats from Iran and what this means for negotiations, which President Donald Trump said on social media Monday were “proceeding nicely.” The two sides appeared to be closing in on a deal to end the war.  
  
  

• Earlier, Trump said any agreement to end the Iran war should include a requirement for several additional countries, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, to join the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-brokered agreements from Trump’s first term aimed at normalizing relations with Israel.

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• What we know and don’t know about the possible deal
  
  
• Israeli opposition leader Lapid says Trump’s emerging deal with Iran is ‘bad for the region’
  
  
• Muslim pilgrims converge on Arafat for prayers and worship as Hajj reaches its peak
  
  
• Photos of the Hajj

POLITICS

Democrats feud over stock trading as they sharpen anti-corruption case against Trump

In primary races across the country, Democrats are increasingly critiquing each other over their personal wealth and stock trades as the party looks to sharpen its anti-corruption message against President Donald Trump in the midterm elections. Read more.

Why this matters:

• Congress has yet to enact a stock trading ban for its members, though insider trading is already illegal for members just like it is for anyone else. There are multiple proposals on Capitol Hill, but none have gained traction. A bipartisan bill to ban congressional stock trading stalled this year despite receiving Trump’s blessing during his State of the Union. And Democrats remain divided over the number of alleged loopholes in their competing proposals.

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• Cornyn tries to hold on to Texas Senate seat in runoff with Paxton, the latest test of Trump’s power
  
  
• Q&A: Anna Gomez is the sole Democrat on the FCC. She has a warning for big media companies 
  
  
• Rubio’s visit to India focuses on US trade tensions, the Quad alliance and sightseeing
  
  
• Trump will see doctors for his annual physical. What the public finds out is up to him

WORLD NEWS

Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery

History’s first U.S.-born pope, whose family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his eagerly awaited first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” (Magnificent Humanity), calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.” Read more.

Why this matters:

• Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope had ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave “infidels.”