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Neither Washington nor Tehran launched strikes for a second straight night, after almost two weeks of tit-for-tat strikes threatened to derail any path back to talks. Trump himself paused US operations to "make space for talks."

The pause follows Israel's Netanyahu publicly pressing to keep pressure on Tehran, and comes as Pentagon reporting continues to face scrutiny over service-member casualty counts. Diplomats from Oman and Qatar arrived in Washington overnight to help shape the next round.

Three people were killed and several others injured — including a two-year-old boy — in a shooting at the Bite of Seattle food festival on Saturday, in what Mayor Katie Wilson called an "unspeakable" attack on a family-focused summer event. A suspect is in custody, and Seattle Police said the two-year-old is in stable condition.

The attack unfolded as thousands of families were still on the festival grounds, and law enforcement said it appears to have followed a personal dispute rather than being a broader public-safety event. Federal authorities have joined the state investigation, and the festival was called off through the weekend.

A federal appeals court upheld a lower-court ruling that halts President Trump's executive order to create a federal voter list and restrict who can receive a mail ballot. A panel of three judges — two of them Trump appointees — ruled that the order exceeds executive authority and encroaches on states' constitutional election-administration role.

Ruling arrives 100 days out from the midterms and lands squarely in the middle of a wave of voter-rules litigation across a dozen swing states. Justice Department indicated it will seek expedited review at the Supreme Court, and state secretaries of state on both sides began contingency planning within hours of the ruling.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore surprised markets by tightening policy, citing renewed inflation risk from climbing Middle East oil prices. The move — done through the Singapore dollar's trade-weighted band, not interest rates — signals Asian central bankers are recalibrating faster than expected.

Israeli settlers set fire to mosques, cars and farmland across multiple West Bank villages, per Palestinian officials, escalating violence that already killed four Palestinians and two Israelis near Tal last week. The Netanyahu government now faces renewed pressure from Washington and European capitals to rein in settler militias.

German police shot and killed the suspect accused of driving a van into a Berlin Pride crowd on Saturday, during a coordinated raid on the man's apartment in the eastern outskirts of the city. Multiple casualties are still being treated, and Chancellor Merz called the ramming attack "an assault on democracy itself."

A Supreme Court ruling has cleared the Trump administration to wind down Temporary Protected Status for roughly one million immigrants. Employers in construction, hospitality and elder care are already warning of imminent labor shortfalls as affected workers lose work authorization in staggered waves through the fall.

Governor Mikie Sherrill signed a law barring retailers from using personal data to charge different customers different prices for the same product. It's the first state-level ban on the practice and will likely serve as a template for legislatures in California and New York.

A Texas family has sued to block a hospital from performing brain-death testing on their two-year-old son after a near-drowning, drawing support from anti-abortion groups now pushing to redefine the medical standard. The case could reopen decades of settled law on when death legally occurs.

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Chinese memory-chip maker CXMT saw its shares surge 470% on Monday's Hong Kong debut, briefly making it mainland China's most valuable listed company as investors bet the domestic AI boom will underwrite years of demand. Move signals just how tight the global memory-chip market has become after Nvidia's SK Hynix lockdown.

Fast-fashion giant Shein reported a $99 million quarterly loss as new US tariffs cut into its low-price margin structure, in disclosures released ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO. Filing shows US revenue down 22% year-over-year.

Brent crude dropped roughly 5% into the low $90s in overnight trading as the US-Iran two-day pause held, unwinding much of last week's Middle East risk premium. US Treasury yields also slipped Monday, the 10-year off two basis points on the same news.

A Michigan 12-year-old is programming a robot to speak his family's Native American language, with his mentor's help. The project is part of a broader movement bringing robotics-and-linguistics tooling into endangered-language preservation.

New reporting pulls together evidence that ADHD manifests differently in girls than the childhood-boys template on which diagnosis was originally built, leaving many women undiagnosed until adulthood. Piece walks through symptom patterns, hormonal-cycle interactions, and medication-response differences.

NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday after an eight-month ISS mission covering more than 102 million miles. His experiments in bone density, plant growth and radiation shielding feed directly into planning for lunar and Mars missions.

Tadej Pogačar dominated the Tour de France for a record-tying fifth title, joining Eddy Merckx, Miguel Indurain, Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil in cycling's most exclusive club. Lance Armstrong's seven podium finishes remain officially stripped from the record.

Carlos Beltrán, Andruw Jones and Jeff Kent were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, with Beltrán and Jones elected by the BBWAA and Kent voted in by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee. All three had waited years past first eligibility, making the ceremony an unusually emotional Cooperstown weekend.

Jackson Koivun held off Scottie Scheffler with a closing 5-under 66 to win the 3M Open by three strokes in his third career start as a pro, finishing at a tournament-record 25-under 259. He becomes the third-youngest first-time PGA Tour winner in the last decade.

Atlanta wriggled out of a bases-loaded jam in the top of the 10th and won in the 11th on a Marcell Ozuna sacrifice fly to edge Baltimore 3-2. Braves complete a series sweep and pull within a half-game of the NL East lead.

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Marvel Studios confirmed at Comic-Con that Ryan Gosling will play Ghost Rider in a standalone film headed toward a 2028 theatrical window. Casting is one of the highest-profile A-list-into-MCU moves since Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom reveal last year.

The Flatiron Building — the 122-year-old triangular Manhattan landmark — is for sale at $58.5 million, following a multi-year condominium-conversion project that recently completed. The listing is being handled through a private-network sale rather than a public marketing campaign.

Gracie Abrams landed her first Billboard 200 No. 1 with third album "Daughter From Hell," which bowed atop the chart at 124,000 equivalent album units. The debut cements her transition from viral opener to headline draw ahead of a fall arena run.

What it is: A little-known Chinese memory-chip maker called CXMT just pulled off one of the wildest stock debuts the market has witnessed in years, stunning seasoned investors who had barely registered its name only a week earlier. Shares soared around 470% in a single frenzied trading session, a scale of gain almost never seen, instantly transforming the company into mainland China's most valuable listed firm and a glittering symbol of Beijing's determined push toward chip independence.

The detail: The frenzy is not really about one company at all, but about memory itself, the unglamorous silicon that quietly stores the vast oceans of data that power-hungry AI models churn through every single second of every day. Nvidia and SK Hynix drove that very point home again this weekend with a massive memory deal, a clear signal that these once-boring components have suddenly become the semiconductor industry's most fiercely fought-over commodity.

Why it matters: Modern artificial intelligence depends on fast, high-bandwidth memory just as heavily as it leans on the flashy processors that grab all of the headlines, and right now the global supply of that memory is stretched painfully thin. Whoever ends up controlling that supply chain quietly gains enormous strategic leverage over the entire AI economy, stretching from scrappy startups burning through cash to rival governments racing one another for raw technological supremacy.

What to watch: China is sprinting to build a homegrown memory champion entirely of its own, even as tightening US export controls try hard to choke off its access to the most advanced manufacturing tools and machinery available anywhere. Watch closely whether CXMT's dizzying, sky-high valuation can actually survive once the initial debut euphoria finally fades and cold, real-world earnings are forced to justify every last bit of the breathless hype.

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