Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The war’s end is not near: “President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to reject Iran’s response to a U.S. proposal to end the war, calling it ‘totally unacceptable.’ It was not immediately clear what Iran’s response entailed.”
* Late breaking SCOTUS news: “The Supreme Court is keeping mifepristone available by mail for at least three more days, making Thursday the next deadline to watch for the full court to weigh in on the nationwide issue.”
* A failing ceasefire: “U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said more than 100 strikes have been launched on Lebanon over the past 24 hours.”
* In related news: “Speaking about his rejection of Tehran’s counteroffer to Washington’s peace proposal, Trump said the U.S.-Iran ceasefire remains in place ‘for the time being,’ but it is ‘on massive life support.’”
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* The newly revised death toll from the boat strikes is now at least 192: “The U.S. military on Friday conducted its third boat strike in five days against a vessel it accused of smuggling drugs, killing two and leaving one survivor at large in the eastern Pacific, U.S. Southern Command said in a social media post.”
* The right call: “A federal appeals court on Friday allowed members of Congress to continue to conduct oversight visits to immigration detention facilities without a seven-day notice, with one judge saying the Department of Homeland Security did not show the visits were anything more than an administrative inconvenience.”
* Do you ever get the sense that he thinks Congo is in Central America? “President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that Congo, a Central African country, released inmates from its prisons and sent them to the U.S. border with Mexico. The president offered no proof or evidence to back up his claim.”
* They’re right: “More than 2,500 scientists said in a letter to Congress on Monday that President Trump’s dismissal of the National Science Foundation’s oversight board was an ‘alarming attack’ on research funding that could put the United States at a disadvantage with rivals, especially China.”
See you tomorrow.
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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