What to know about the Iran war today:
o President Trump said Monday that the ceasefire with Iran is "on life support" after Iran's response to the latest U.S. peace proposal. He has rejected Iran's reply as "totally unacceptable" and on Monday called it a "piece of garbage."

o The Iranian government insists it demanded only the country's "legitimate rights" and no "concessions" in its response.

o Mr. Trump is expected to encourage China to pressure Iran into making a deal to end the costly war during his visit to Beijing later this week, when he will meet with President Xi Jinping.

Trump says ceasefire is "on life support" after "garbage" Iranian response
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump said Monday that the Iran ceasefire is on "life support" after the "garbage" response Iran sent the U.S.

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Bank of America predicts the Federal Reserve will delay lowering interest rates until the second half of 2027, mainly due to strong inflation and resilient job growth.

Bank of America Global Research had previously penciled in two rate cuts this year in September and October. That view was partly based on the expectation that Kevin Warsh, President Trump's nominee to succeed Jerome Powell as Fed chair, would steer policymakers toward easing monetary policy.

But that view has changed amid a shifting economic backdrop.

"We no longer expect the Fed to cut rates this year," economists with the financial firm said Friday in a note to clients, while noting that the multiple shocks affecting the economy, including the Iran war, tariffs and emergence of AI, are making it harder to forecast interest rate moves.

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A wild game in London saw the Gunners come out with a late 1-0 victory, keeping themselves in the driver's seat to win the league


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By God, they've gotten away with one here. If Arsenal do go on to win the league, it will have been in spite of what they did Sunday. Not just the goal they conceded at the death that never was -- Callum Wilson's strike ruled out after an agonizingly lengthy VAR check concluded that Pablo's arm had impeded David Raya -- but the numerous ways in which this team insisted on inflicting agony on itself and its supporters.

Mikel Arteta had mangled his substitutions after Ben White's early injury. Even with teams that vaguely approximated a normal XI, Arsenal had frittered away the control they had established for themselves in the first quarter. When the combined composure of Martin Odegaard and Leandro Trossard...More

Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million after they allegedly used her face to sell TVs (Getty Images for Elton John AIDS)

Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million in a fight over the use of her image.

The British pop star, 30, filed the massive lawsuit against the electronics giant Friday, alleging that Samsung used a picture of her face to sell TVs without getting her permission or offering her any payment.

“Ms. Lipa’s face was prominently used for a mass marketing campaign for a consumer product without her knowledge, without consideration, and as to which she had no say, control, or input whatsoever,” the filing alleges. “Ms. Lipa did not allow and would not have allowed this use.”

According to the complaint, Samsung allegedly began putting Lipa’s image on marketing materials and cardboard boxes carrying its TVs all over the world at the...More

This picture taken on May 19, 2023 shows monk Pallegama Hemarathana, the chief custodian of the ancient bodhi tree, showing newly sprouting leaves of the holy tree at Sri Maha Bodhi temple in Anuradhapura. ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images

Sri Lankan authorities arrested a senior Buddhist monk on Saturday for the alleged sexual abuse of an underage girl, police said, marking the highest-profile case involving clergy in the country.

Pallegama Hemarathana, 71, was arrested at a private hospital in the capital Colombo where he had sought treatment over the weekend amid an investigation into the alleged abuse of the 11-year-old girl in 2022.

The crime is alleged to have taken place at a highly venerated temple in Anuradhapura, around 125 miles north of Colombo, where Hemarathana is the chief priest. The ancient city is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Comedian Martin Short. / Credit: CBS News

Of his friend Martin Short, Tom Hanks once said, "Marty operates at the speed of joy." Is that true? "You know, I don't analyze myself," said Short. "If that's his review for me, I'll accept it. But I think I do have the happy gene. And I think my orientation is to be happy."

For more than 50 years, he's been a bright spot on any stage or screen, with that crazy energy and that singular smile. And when you know what Martin Short has endured in private, his sunny attitude is all the more astonishing.

He's now the subject of a new documentary film out this week. "Marty: Life Is Short" was directed by Hollywood legend and family friend Lawrence Kasdan, who said Short needed to be prodded a bit to do it. "It was not a natural instinct of his to want it; he's not like that," Kasdan said. "I had to sell him on it. I had to lie to him, tell him how much I loved him...More

Iranian authorities on Monday hanged a post-graduate student from an elite Tehran university on charges of espionage, the latest in a spate of executions against the backdrop of the war against the United States and Israel.

Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29, was hanged after being convicted for allegedly collaborating with the CIA and Israel's Mossad intelligence service, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website said.

Norway-based rights groups Iran Human Rights and Hengaw said Shakourzadeh was a student at Tehran's prestigious Iran University of Science and Technology and had written a message before his execution rejecting the charges as fabricated.

Describing him as an "elite student," IHR said he was held "in solitary confinement and subjected to torture and forced to give false confessions."

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A member of the Guardia Civil finishes erecting a tent at an expected reception point for passengers from the MV Hondius on May 9, 2026, in Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands, Spain. Chris McGrath / Getty Images

World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Tenerife Saturday to personally oversee the painstaking process of evacuating more than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus.

Addressing the people of the Canary Islands, where the ship will anchor off the coast of its largest island, the WHO chief said the public's concern is legitimate after what the world experienced in 2020 during the global coronavirus pandemic.

"This disease is not COVID," Tedros said, reiterating a letter he wrote earlier Saturday. "The risk to the local population is...More