Old fashioned baby names like Barbara, Bob and Agatha are making a comeback, according to people who track these things. I like Wilhelm and Ebenezer but they are not on the list.
In Case You Missed It.
🤝 President Trump signed agreements in Qatar with at least $1.2 trillion. Skyscrapers in the capitol of Doha were lit in red, white and blue for the President’s visit.
🇸🇾 President Trump met with Syrian President and former ISIS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
🎬 A film about Julian Assange has been added to the Cannes Film Festival. It is called “The Six Billion Dollar Man.”
🚓 Police in the UK arrested three men they accuse of “planning to carry out an attack on mosques or synagogues in anticipation of a coming race war.”
☕ More than 1,000 Starbucks workers are striking over the company’s new dress code that asks them to wear a solid black shirt and khaki, black or blue pants.
💻 CNN is trying again for a new streaming service, three years after CNN+ failed in just weeks.
🏦 Costco will restrict purchases of gold to only one 1-ounce bar due to rising gold prices.
*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00pm AM.
Lead: A Deal With Iran
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The Trump administration may have secured a nuclear deal with Iran. NBC News reports that “Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal with certain conditions with President Donald Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.”
NBC quotes Ali Shamkhani, a top political, military and nuclear adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He said that the deal would involve a commitment to not making nuclear weapons, “getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use, and allow international inspectors to supervise the process, in exchange for the immediate lifting of all economic sanctions on Iran.”
In President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia, he said that he wants to make a deal with Iran and if he cannot, he will launch an economic war. He did not say he would launch a physical war.
“If I can make a deal with Iran, I’ll be very happy if we’re going to make your region and the world a safer place,” he said. “But if Iran’s leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil exports to zero, like I did before.”
Well he may have done it. NBC reports this: “Asked if Iran would agree to sign an agreement today if those conditions were met, Shamkhani said, ‘Yes.'”
Zelensky Stood Up For Peace Talks
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Ukrainian President Zelensky will attend peace negotiations in Istanbul today but he is being stood up by both Russian President Putin and U.S. President Trump.
Zelensky has been begging both leaders to come on Thursday but President Trump’s visit to the Middle East was not altered to oblige this request. President Putin is sending a Russia’s delegation led by Kremlin Aide Vladimir Medinsky. The delegation will also include Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kostyukov, and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. No Putin but it is the first time that Ukraine has met directly with Russian representatives since early 2022 when the West tanked their initial peace deal.
There is also that little problem that in 2022 Zelensky signed a law forbidding peace negotiations with Russia. How is he going to get around that? Easy: He says it doesn’t apply to him. That’s not true but he says a lot of dumb things.
The United States will not have representatives at this meeting. U.S. negotiators are planning to go to Istanbul on Friday, one day after the meeting.
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Europe’s Secret Pfizer Texts
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European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen got a slap on the hand for her backdoor vaccine deals with Pfizer from a European court.
The New York Times reported how von der Leyen secured Pfizer Covid vaccines for the whole of Europe with texts messages with Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla. The Times requested those texts and the European Commission rejected that request, saying that they didn’t have them. The Times says that they do have them and the court agrees, ruling they must hand them over.
The court also ruled that the EU “has not given a plausible explanation to justify the non-possession of the requested documents. Moreover, the Commission has not sufficiently clarified whether the requested text messages were deleted and, if so, whether the deletion was done deliberately or automatically or whether the President’s mobile phone had been replaced in the meantime.”
In other words: They were being shady.
This is the second time von der Leyen was caught deleting things from her phone. When she was Germany’s Defense Minister, she was investigated for military contracts and when officials searched her phones, they’d been wiped.
The European Commission has responded to this ruling saying that they’re sorry and the court is right, they should be more transparent. They have not committed to handing over the messages though.
News By The Numbers
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89 million. That is how many Steam users have reportedly had their personal information leaked in a company breach.
38 years. That is how long one man served in prison in the UK for a murder that he did not do. He is set to be released soon.
What’s Trending?
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Superman is trending because Warner Brothers released this new trailer for the film, which comes out in July.
King of the Hill is trending Hulu is bringing the animated comedy back.
Derek Chauvin is trending on speculation that he could be pardoned for his conviction in the death of George Floyd but there is no real news of that happening. Tim Walz just said that it was something he thought President Trump “would do.”
Peace Pope
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Pope Leo XIV has begun tweeting and his first messages are unequivocally antiwar. In fact, he offered to mediate peace between warring nations!
“The Holy See is willing to help enemies meet, so they may look each other in the eye and so people may be given back the dignity they deserve: the dignity of peace. With heart in hand, I say to the leaders of nations: let us meet; let us dialogue; let us negotiate!”
One can only assume that means all leaders are welcome, popular and unpopular.
He also posted about the “the preservation of the Eastern rites,” which was important to Pope Leo XIII, he says.
It does not seem that any one conflict is more important to the Pope than another. In this post he gave permission to feel outraged about it: “There is so much violence and so many wars in our world! Amid this horror that should provoke outrage—as people die in the name of military conquest—stands the call of Christ, who repeats: ‘Peace be with you!’”
It is not unusual for Popes to play diplomatic peacemaking roles but it is interesting that this Pope wasted no time doing so.
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