The US rejected Iran's proposal to gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz and discuss dismantling its nuclear program, while drone attacks and tensions between the US and Iran continue. The US also seems to have turned a blind eye to other Iranian attacks during the ceasefire, raising concerns among allies in the Gulf region.
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It offered to gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the US naval blockade ended but didn’t commit in advance to dismantling its nuclear program, offering instead to discuss the issue over the next month. Trump rejected the proposal by way of social media, saying he had “just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives'”—one of his running bits is that the people really in charge of Iran aren’t negotiating, despite frequent proclamations that the Iranians want to do a deal with him—and found Iran’s offer “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.
” More drone attacks occurred, including one that set fire to a ship near Qatar. The UAE said it shot down two Iranian drones.
The US “seemed to turn a blind eye” to other Iranian attacks during the ceasefire, rattling allies with whom the US’s relationships are already strained because of the war. For allies in the Gulf, the US’s apparent reluctance to address Iran’s provocations “represented another humbling moment. ” The agency “issued a new policy Friday that could allow major tobacco and vape companies to begin selling flavored e-cigarettes. ” Trump claimed that Congo “released inmates from its prisons and sent them to the U.S. border with Mexico,” a statement the White House appears unable to back up. Trump steered a no-bid contract to paint the Reflecting Pool blue to the Virginia company Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which may have worked on pools at his Virginia golf club.
Trump’s “gold card visa” appears to be a dud because attorneys for the super-wealthy are concerned that it hasn’t been enshrined in law. Members of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission have discussed their wish lists, including “a federal hotline with this automated recording: ‘There is no separation of church and state.
'” Trump shared a clip over the weekend showing a pastor who claimed the President “has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches about the role of government than the pope has. ” . She got her first restaurant Coke, I got an• Democrats in Virginia have limited—and probably long-shot—options to unravel Friday’s devastating ruling by the commonwealth’s supreme court, which invalidated a voter-approved redistricting plan.
(• DC’s public golf courses will remain open under a deal the Trump administration announced Friday. The National Links Trust will continue to run the East Potomac Golf Links while the Park Service performs renovations. ( • A standoff at an Arlington 7-Eleven Friday ended when police shot and killed a suspect who they say barricaded himself inside. ( • Police say an argument preceded a shooting in Navy Yard this weekend.
One man was shot, and windows at Osteria Morini were damaged. (• The future of the Combined Federal Campaign is in doubt. OPM won’t say whether it will continue the long-running donation program.
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