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European diplomats are working on a Gaza aid deal with Israel. Foreign ministers are meeting Tuesday in Brussels to discuss an agreement to provide food and fuel to Gaza鈥檚 2.3 million residents. Kaja Kallas, the European Union鈥檚 foreign policy chief, said they had reached a 鈥渃ommon understanding with Israel鈥� and would aim to focus on implementation. 鈥� The Associated Press

Fighting escalated in Syria. Clashes between Bedouin tribes, government forces, and the Druze minority have killed dozens. Tit-for-tat violence began Monday in Sweida province after a Druze man was attacked at a Bedouin checkpoint. Government forces intervened and were accused of siding with the Bedouins. Syria remains divided amid a fragile recovery after 14 years of civil war and the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. The Druze see the Islamist-led government as threatening their rights. Israel also struck military tanks in southern Syria Monday. 鈥� AP

The Supreme Court weighed in on the president鈥檚 Education Department plan. With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday paused an order by U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston, who had issued a preliminary injunction reversing President Donald Trump鈥檚 intended layoffs of nearly 1,400 of the department鈥檚 employees and calling into question the broader plan. 鈥� AP

Trump threatened Moscow with tariffs. He announced new measures targeting Russia over its war in Ukraine, threatening steep tariffs if a peace deal isn鈥檛 reached within 50 days. Mr. Trump also revealed plans for European allies to buy U.S. weapons and transfer them to Ukraine. (See our story, below.) Ukraine faces intensified Russian attacks, with June recording the highest civilian casualties in three years. 鈥� AP

Twenty states sued the Trump administration over after-school funding. Washington has frozen billions of dollars in funding for after-school, summer, and other programs. The Trump administration says it wants to make sure recipients鈥� programs align with current priorities. The lawsuit filed Monday by 20 Democratic-led states alleges that withholding the money violates the Constitution and several federal laws. 鈥� AP

Andrew Cuomo will run for New York City mayor as an independent. The former New York governor, who lost to progressive Democrat Zohran Mamdani in the June primary, says he aims to challenge Mr. Mamdani鈥檚 policies ahead of the November general election. Current Mayor Eric Adams is also running as an independent. Curtis Sliwa is set to represent the Republican Party. 鈥� AP

Australia is hosting its largest-ever military exercise. Called Talisman Sabre, it involves more than 35,000 personnel from 19 nations. The drills, held every two years since 2005, showcase the defense alliance between Australia and the United States. Chinese surveillance ships were expected to monitor the exercise, as they have since 2017. The drills coincide with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese鈥檚 visit to China. 鈥� AP

The number of unhoused people fell in Los Angeles. Homelessness dropped by 4% across the county in 2025, with those living in the streets 鈥� and not in shelters 鈥� down by 10%. The success comes amid growing scrutiny of the billions of dollars spent to address the problem. Mayor Karen Bass told The Los Angeles Times the numbers 鈥渞epresent thousands of human beings who are now inside, and neighborhoods that are beginning to heal.鈥� 鈥� Staff

Half a year into President Donald Trump鈥檚 second term, predictions that his economic policies would drive the United States into either a recession or stagflation 鈥� low growth and high inflation 鈥� have not come to pass. The economy has proved resilient. Could Americans and U.S. businesses see better times ahead despite the uncertainty and 鈥渢ax鈥� that Mr. Trump鈥檚 tariff policies have imposed?

Over the past year, more than 24,000 drones have targeted Ukrainian cities and villages, residential buildings, schools, and industrial sites, according to a study by the Center for Information Resilience, a U.K.-based open-source investigations organization. Russia launched 728 attack and decoy drones on a single night, July 9, setting a new record for a tactic that has transformed modern warfare. To counter this threat, Ukrainian mobile antidrone units have emerged as an indispensable defensive line. Our reporter spent a night with one unit in a harvested wheat field in the Odesa region.

Elon Musk became the world鈥檚 richest man through a 鈥渕ove fast and break things鈥� pursuit of innovation 鈥� in tech, electric cars, space rockets. Now, after his acrimonious split from President Donald Trump, the South African-born self-styled disrupter seeks to disrupt the American political landscape with a new political party. The bid has its skeptics. Since the 19th century, men like聽Theodore Roosevelt, George Wallace, and Ross Perot have failed trying to shatter the two-party political system. But Mr. Musk has a built-in opportunity those others didn鈥檛 have: The percentage of voters who identify as independent keeps rising, indicating an appetite for something new.

When Willie Mays made an over-the-shoulder basket catch on the warning track in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, it wasn鈥檛 the ball that he was worried about. It was the long throw back to the infield, where the Indians had runners on first and second, with the game tied. In a sense, ever since Jackie Robinson put on No. 42, Black baseball players have been playing the long game 鈥� changing the game, changing society. At the HBCU Swingman Classic last Friday night, it was Ken Griffey Jr.鈥檚 turn. The Hall of Famer is trying to nurture a love for the game in a new generation of young ballplayers.

Vincent Williams grew up in Oakland, California, where he spent his youth in and out of foster homes and, eventually, prison. Shortly after his release in 2019, he met a boy living in a van with his mother near a park where Mr. Williams had played as a child. The park was strewn with garbage. That encounter sparked a movement. Mr. Williams bought trash bags and picked up the park on his own. He went on to co-found the Urban Compassion Project, a community waste cleanup group driven to remedy illegal dumping. City beautification, he says, is 鈥渁bout cleaning up hearts and spirits.鈥�

In the Middle East, reconciliation between warring factions, either ethnic or religious, often comes hard. In Turkey, however, small steps in recent weeks have pointed to an end of a four-decade war. They offer a glimpse into a transition to peace that might be able to balance justice and mercy.

On Friday, the Kurdistan Workers鈥� Party, designated widely as a terrorist group and known as PKK, began to get rid of its weapons and to disband. The public ceremony came more than four months after the PKK鈥檚 imprisoned leader, Abdullah 脰calan, called for an end to the goal of an independent state for Kurds 鈥� who make up 18% to 20% of Turkey鈥檚 population 鈥� and instead urged the seeking of greater Kurdish rights through democratic means.

On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an welcomed the start of what may be a long peace process. He plans a commission to ensure the group is dismantled and then integrated into politics. 鈥淭urks and Kurds are embracing each other in friendship,鈥� he said.

In a message that could lead to national healing, Mr. Erdo臒an admitted that past Turkish governments have made mistakes by using 鈥渨rongful鈥� practices. He listed them off: 鈥淭he unsolved murders were one of them. Diyarbak谋r Prison [for PKK inmates] was one of them. The villages that were burned down, the people forced to flee in a single night, the mothers who couldn鈥檛 speak Kurdish with their children in prison.鈥�

Much still needs to be done to start a dialogue among survivors of a war that killed an estimated 40,000 people. In addition, Mr. Erdo臒an is under suspicion of merely using the peace process to win Kurdish political support in order to change the constitution as a way to stay in power. 鈥淩esolving [the PKK conflict] will require serious democratisation, while Erdo臒an鈥檚 desire to remain in power requires Turkey to remain an authoritarian regime,鈥� Mesut Ye臒en, a researcher at the Reform Institute, an Istanbul think tank, told the Financial Times.

A dialogue to mutually expose past atrocities is an essential step in achieving accountability. Yet it can also leave room for leniency in cases of remorse by perpetrators of violence. 鈥淭urkey has gained significant momentum to reconcile with itself and, to some extent, with its history,鈥� wrote scholar Mensur Akg眉n in Karar news.

鈥淔or this momentum to continue, continuous action is needed,鈥� he added, 鈥渟eparating violence from politics and bringing it into democratic platforms.鈥�