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Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear program. Two officials with knowledge of the proposal said Monday that Iran also wants the United States to ends its blockade of the country as part of its proposal. Oil prices were gaining Monday after negotiations between the U.S. and Iran stalled over the weekend and a standoff in the strait remained despite a ceasefire. Iran鈥檚 foreign minister was in Russia Monday to meet President Vladimir Putin as part of a trip that included two stops in Pakistan and a visit to Oman. Pakistan鈥檚 leaders are working to bridge significant gaps between Washington and Tehran to revive the talks. 鈥� The Associated Press

Our coverage: In Iran, the regime has indeed changed: It鈥檚 less restrained, more hard-line

Maine鈥檚 governor vetoed a bill to halt construction of new data centers Democratic governor Janet Mills said she supports a moratorium on large new data centers, but on Friday she blocked a bill passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature because it did not include an exception for a long-planned facility in the town of Jay, Maine. The legislation would have been the first of its kind in the U.S. to pause new construction on power-hungry data centers for the AI industry. At least a dozen states have looked at similar moratoriums to study the impact of data centers on the environment and local power grids. 鈥� Staff

Our coverage: As tech companies race to build data centers, more communities are pushing back

Gunfire and blasts rocked Mali as attackers hit capital and other cities. Gunmen attacked multiple locations in Mali鈥檚 capital and other cities, possibly in a coordinated effort, according to residents and the army. The army reported that unidentified armed groups targeted sites and barracks in the capital. Fighting was ongoing in several cities. Heavy gunfire and explosions were heard near Modibo Ke茂ta International Airport in Bamako, with helicopters patrolling overhead. Similar incidents occurred in Kati, near the capital, and in the northern cities of Kidal and Gao. The West African country has long faced insurgencies from al-Qaida and Islamic State affiliates, as well as a separatist rebellion in the north. 鈥� A.P.

Our coverage: Jihadis took over their towns. Many distrust Mali鈥檚 rulers just as much.

Sabastian Sawe has shattered the old 2-hour barrier at the London marathon. The fabled 2-hour barrier for a marathon has been broken, officially, in an once-inconceivable achievement in sports. Not by one runner, but two. In a race for the ages, Sabastian Sawe of Kenya won the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday, shattering the previous men鈥檚 world record by an astonishing 65 seconds. 鈥淲hat comes today is not for me alone,鈥� the 29-year-old Sawe said, 鈥渂ut for all of us today in London.鈥� Just 11 seconds further back was Ethiopia鈥檚 Yomif Kejelcha, who 鈥� running in his first-ever marathon 鈥� also covered the 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) course in under 2 hours. Completing the podium was Uganda鈥檚 Jacob Kiplimo, who broke the previous world-record time 鈥� set by Kenya鈥檚 Kelvin Kiptum in Chicago in 2023 鈥� by seven seconds, finishing in 2:00:28. 鈥� A.P.

As a veteran of more than 20 White House correspondents鈥� dinners, our reporter was struck by how lax security seemed on Saturday 鈥� particularly given the attendance of President Donald Trump, and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. The suspected assassination attempt is already prompting calls for better security protocols.

Around the globe, many people in the middle class are earning higher salaries.聽But they're also feeling like they can鈥檛 afford the things their parents once could, whether that鈥檚 in Europe, Latin America, or South Asia.聽

Elon Musk claims that he was misled by OpenAI, which he co-founded. A centerpiece of the trial is likely to be what role a company should have in ensuring responsible development of artificial intelligence.

Amid a spate of cellphone and social media bans for young people around the world, there鈥檚 a parallel, quieter shift taking place in education. It is away from the ubiquity of digital technology and back to the analog tools of paper, pen, and pencils.

And, in an interesting twist, this change is being led by the Scandinavian nations that pioneered the shift to ed tech learning more than a decade ago. Today, they are grappling with restoring 鈥� or, rather, redefining 鈥� what contributes to meaningful and enduring education.

In 2009, Sweden 鈥� home to tech giants Spotify and Klarna, among others 鈥� swapped out printed school textbooks for computers and tablets. In 2023, it announced a 鈧�104 million ($122 million) plan to bring back book-based learning, especially in the early grades. Finland began a similar reversal in 2024. And so has Norway which, starting in 2016, issued an iPad to every 5-year-old starting school. Now, its government, teachers, and librarians are going all out to boost reading 鈥� through library-based, youth-friendly activities and community reading sessions.

Behind these shifts is public concern over declining literacy and reading comprehension. But the change also points to a broader embrace of screen- and tech-free learning as a means to support less distraction, active engagement, and deeper learning among young people.

鈥淧rogress sometimes means knowing when you鈥檝e taken a wrong turn, so you can double back and undo the mistake,鈥� observed a Swedish writer on After Babel, a Substack newsletter launched by New York University professor Jonathan Haidt. Dr. Haidt鈥檚 extensive research on the effects of online technology and social media on children and teens has spawned growing discussions about how best to balance the use of tech in the service of education.

Ed tech, according to Australian education specialist Jared Cooney Horvath, has grown 鈥渇rom a niche supplement into a $400 billion juggernaut woven into nearly every corner of schooling.鈥� But scale doesn鈥檛 necessarily equal impact. Screen reading, by its very nature, Dr. Horvath wrote in The Dispatch last December, favors 鈥渟hallow skimming 鈥� glancing, scrolling, and extracting instead of truly learning.鈥� Other researchers point out that screen-based tools substitute passive engagement and novelty for the more challenging and time-consuming consideration of new concepts.

For one longtime high school humanities teacher, the increasing intertwining of technology and AI in learning 鈥渉as done education a favor it didn鈥檛 ask for鈥� 鈥� by spurring a needed and timely reconsideration.

For too long, education has primarily been viewed as a means 鈥渢o succeed, to be useful, to secure a future,鈥� observed Aran Levasseur in the online magazine of the University of California, Berkeley-based Greater Good Science Center this week. The present moment, he indicated, offers an opportunity to 鈥渞eimagine [education] as the cultivation of judgment, purpose, and the capacity to think and choose well in a world where productivity is no longer the defining measure of human value.鈥�