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US, Iran pause strikes but disagree on talks

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States and Iran on Monday separately announced they will send delegations to Qatar this week, though Tehran insisted it has not agreed to meet with the U.S. “at any level” after attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend challenged negotiations to end the war. U.S. President Donald Trump said the Islamic Republic had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts and that they planned to convene Tuesday in Doha, Qatar. But one of Iran’s senior negotiators denied talks had been scheduled. And the spokesman for Iran’s Foreign ...

Late-arriving mailed ballots will count

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ballots to arrive and be counted some number of days after the election, provided they are postmarked by Election Day. The outcome spares officials the headache of changing their ballot rules just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections. In just over half those states, the ...

Heat overtakes Paris

International News

PARIS — Every few minutes, the mortuary owner’s phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more? With all 32 places in his cold room taken, Zouhaeir Hertelli reluctantly has to gently say “Non,” over and over and over again. “We’re facing a really catastrophic situation,” he said. “I’m getting hundreds of calls.” As the historic heat wave shifted its deadly temperatures eastward ...

No state budget deal passed on eve of deadline

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With one day left before the deadline to produce a state budget, closed-door negotiations among top state Democrats and Republicans were said to be continuing on Monday but there was no indication a deal had been reached. If no budget is passed by the end of Tuesday, it will be the fifth year ...