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President Trump yesterday rejected Iran's response to the latest U.S. proposal for ending the war. Iran's reply included demands of an end to war on all fronts, the lifting of U.S. sanctions on the sale of Iranian oil, the removal of the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports and the unfreezing of assets, according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency. Trump called the Iranian response “totally unacceptable.” The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is still holding for now. But Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates said over the weekend that they each intercepted hostile drones over their territories. 

Congress has returned after a weeklong break. Lawmakers are expected to focus on securing three years of funding for immigration enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are usually funded on the same cycle as other agencies — October through September. Democrats blocked funding efforts this year after an immigration crackdown in Minnesota led to the deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of federal immigration agents.

Seventeen American cruise passengers returned to the U.S. early today after weeks aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. These 17 passengers are among the nearly 150 people from 23 countries who were on the ship. Three passengers have died since the outbreak began. During the flight back to the U.S., one American tested "mildly" positive for the virus while another exhibited mild symptoms, according to an X post by the official @HHSGov account. Most of the passengers will head to the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Dr. Ali Khan, dean of the College of Public Health at UNMC, says scientists have studied this strain of hantavirus for decades. It doesn't transmit easily between people, and she says it's unlikely to become a pandemic.