⚡ Today in History

On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and started World War I. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment took effect and made citizenship a birthright for almost anyone born on US soil. Today? American and Iranian forces have not fired on each other since Friday, and messages are moving between Washington and Tehran through mediators in Oman.

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US and Iran hold their fire for a third day DAY 3

Admiral Brad Cooper, who commands US Central Command, told President Donald Trump on Friday that the bombing campaign around the Strait of Hormuz had reached the limit of what it could achieve. Trump ordered the strikes stopped after 13 straight nights, and Iran halted its own operations across the region over the weekend.

Trump hosts Zelenskyy and Netanyahu on the same day

Talks on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have been stalled for months. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu each meet Trump at the White House today, and Ukrainian and American officials have drafted a plan for a halt to air attacks to put in front of Russia.

Trump to speak at Lindsey Graham's funeral today

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died on July 11 at the age of 71 from an aortic dissection, a tear in the body's main artery. An arrival ceremony at the US Capitol opens the day, followed by a funeral service at Washington National Cathedral at 2 p.m. Eastern, where Trump will deliver a tribute.

Berlin Pride attacker shot dead after 24-hour manhunt 29 INJURED

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has called it an Islamist terror attack. A van drove into a crowd at the Christopher Street Day celebration in Berlin's Tiergarten park on Saturday night, killing one woman and injuring 29 people, and police shot the suspect, 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, on Sunday evening after he ran at officers with a blade.

Tens of millions under extreme heat warnings 120°F

A heat dome, a ridge of high pressure that traps hot air near the ground, has settled over the central and southern United States. The National Weather Service forecast heat index readings above 105 degrees on Sunday from Memphis to Montana to Las Vegas, with parts of the Southwest reaching 120 degrees.

World

Houthis hit Saudi oil ports on the Red Sea 2 PORTS

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Yemeni group struck sites belonging to Saudi Aramco, the state oil company, in the Red Sea cities of Jizan and Yanbu on Saturday. Both ports handle crude that Saudi Arabia has shipped in greater volumes since the fighting choked off traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Bahrain and Kuwait secretly bombed Iran this month

Two Gulf states that had stayed out of the fighting sent jets against targets inside Iran earlier in July, sources told the Wall Street Journal, with the United Arab Emirates supplying target intelligence and air cover. Kuwait's ambassador to the United States denied that his country took part.

Israeli forces detain 70 Palestinians in West Bank sweep

Four Palestinian villagers and two Israeli soldiers were killed in the occupied West Bank over the weekend. The Israeli military said it searched more than 300 locations and detained over 70 people, and residents of the city of Nablus described an armed raid on a hospital.

Putin says Ukraine will lose its western lands

Russian President Vladimir Putin told navy personnel on Sunday that Ukraine will sooner or later lose the western territory that once belonged to Poland, Hungary and Romania. Putin said the loss might take one year or fifteen, and added that Russia had been the only guarantor of Ukraine's borders before Kyiv declared Moscow an enemy.

ICC members vote out their own chief prosecutor

Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, faced allegations of sexual misconduct. Member states voted on Friday to dismiss him, with 82 of the court's 125 members in favour, diplomatic sources told Reuters.

Politics

Democrats ask vendors to hold their bills until after the midterms 100 DAYS

The Democratic National Committee is short of cash and is being outraised by its Republican counterpart. Party leaders have asked vendors to delay invoices until after the November elections, three people briefed on the plan told the New York Times, with roughly 100 days left before the vote.

Appeals court keeps Trump's mail voting order on hold

Trump signed an order in March 2026 to tighten the rules on voting by mail and add federal checks to state elections. A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling blocking key parts of that order on Saturday, saying it puts federal officials into the running of state elections at a level never seen before.

$7.5 billion in energy grants cut over how states voted

The Trump administration told a California federal court this month that it cancelled nearly $7.5 billion in clean energy grants last October based only on whether the projects sat in states that voted for Kamala Harris and had Democratic senators. The admission came in a court filing in a case challenging the cuts.

ICE prepares deportation flights to Haiti

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are about to lose Temporary Protected Status, the program that shields migrants from deportation when their home country is unsafe. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to arrest Haitians in Ohio and fly them home, with operations possibly starting this week, according to agency documents obtained by CBS News.

Trump orders warning signs at a Smithsonian museum

Trump signed a presidential action on Friday directing signs to be installed outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington. The signs are meant to warn visitors about what the order describes as inaccurate information in the museum's displays.

Markets

Oil sinks toward $90 as the shooting stops −7%

A senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday that Tehran will hold its fire for as long as the United States does. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, fell more than 7% in early London trading on Monday to about $90 a barrel, after topping $102 last week.

Federal Reserve opens a two-day meeting today

The federal funds rate, the benchmark that shapes borrowing costs across the economy, has sat at 3.50% to 3.75% since January 2026. Chair Kevin Warsh and the rate-setting committee begin talks today and publish their decision at 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, with traders pricing in roughly a one-in-three chance of an increase.

Four of the Magnificent Seven report this week

Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Amazon all publish quarterly results in the days ahead. Investors are watching what the four plan to spend on artificial intelligence, after spending plans from Alphabet and Tesla sent technology shares lower earlier this month.

Gold climbs back off nine-month lows

Gold rose about 1% on Monday to trade near $4,100 an ounce. The metal had slipped to nine-month lows during the two weeks of strikes on Iran, and now sits roughly 23% above where it traded a year ago.

Bitcoin trades at about half its record price

Bitcoin changed hands near $65,400 on Monday morning, up about 1% on the day. The record high of $126,198 came on October 6, 2025, which leaves the coin at roughly half its peak and about $54,000 below where it stood a year ago.

Entertainment

The Odyssey posts the best second weekend of Nolan's career $87M

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's poem, with Matt Damon as Odysseus, took an estimated $87 million in North America in its second weekend. That is a drop of only 30% from the opening, and brings the film to $286 million at home and $639.6 million worldwide.

Ryan Gosling will play Ghost Rider for Marvel

Marvel Studios returned to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday for the first time since 2024. Studio head Kevin Feige announced a Ghost Rider film starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy, due in cinemas in 2028.

Ryan Coogler dates Black Panther III for December 2028

Coogler took the Comic-Con stage after Feige to confirm a third Black Panther film for release on December 15, 2028. David Jonsson will star as a grown T'Challa II, and Coogler said the movie will be shot on film rather than digitally.

Rick Moranis turns up at Comic-Con in the Dark Helmet suit

Moranis stepped away from acting in the 1990s and came back for the Spaceballs sequel. Fans at the July 24 panel in San Diego were asked to search the room for him, and Moranis stood up in his Dark Helmet costume to a standing ovation.

Summer box office clears $3 billion

North American ticket sales for the summer season passed $3 billion after this weekend, with about a month left to reach $4 billion. Cinemas have now strung together 14 straight weekends above $100 million, their longest such run since 2023.