Live Updates: Despite Trump’s remarks, no new negotiations with Iran are planned, U.S. officials tell CBS News – CBS News

  1. Live Updates: Despite Trump's remarks, no new negotiations with Iran are planned, U.S. officials tell CBS News  CBS News
  2. An Emerging Deal Could Cement Iran’s Control of Strait of Hormuz  The New York Times
  3. Iran war live: Tehran denies US talks as Trump warns of ‘last chance’  Al Jazeera
  4. Trump calls Iranian leadership ‘extremely duplicitous’ after Tehran denies new talks will start Monday  nbcnews.com
  5. Trump frequently announces he’s halting strikes in Iran. But they keep happening  AP News
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Japan’s prime minister tours earthquake-hit sites as recovery efforts hampered by soaring temperatures

Prime minister Sanae Takaichi visited Kumamoto prefecture almost a week after a magnitude 7.1 quake hit, killing 38 people

Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has visited the south-western prefecture of Kumamoto, where recovery efforts are being hampered by heat and a lack of water supplies, almost a week after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake killed dozens and caused widespread damage.

Thirty-eight people died during the quake, including one person who died of apparent heatstroke while taking shelter in a car in hot weather, officials said on Monday.

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Questions Mount Over a Star Scholar’s Life and Career – nytimes.com

  1. Questions Mount Over a Star Scholar’s Life and Career  nytimes.com
  2. Jason Arday: I am not a liar, says star academic accused of plagiarism  The Times
  3. Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor  The Guardian
  4. Cambridge’s diversity poster boy faces questions over ‘miracle’ 600-mile run  The Telegraph
  5. Cambridge professor claimed he was on TV show... decades before he was born  The Telegraph
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US Supreme Court won’t halt $656 million judgment against Palestinians over terror attacks – The Times of Israel

  1. US Supreme Court won’t halt $656 million judgment against Palestinians over terror attacks  The Times of Israel
  2. Supreme Court won’t halt $656M judgment against the PLO and Palestinian Authority  AP News
  3. Sonia Sotomayor declines to block $655m. Palestinian Authority judgment over Second Intifada suits  The Jerusalem Post
  4. Palestinian groups ask Supreme Court to pause order to pay U.S. Intifada victims  USA Today
  5. 'Collective punishment': US Supreme Court greenlights $656m judgement against Palestinian officials  Middle East Eye
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