Trump rejects Iran’s latest response to cease-fire proposal ahead of his trip to China. Follow live updates.
Iran and the United States reached an impasse again Monday over how to end their war while their cease-fire grew increasingly shaky, with the two sides exchanging fire in recent days.
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Voter confusion and headaches for election officials follow hasty GOP push to redraw US House seats — 8:43 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Thousands of Louisiana voters have already cast early ballots for congressional candidates in what soon could be the wrong districts. Alabama’s primaries are a week away, but the state could force a do-over for voting on U.S. House races. A new congressional map in Tennessee upended races that had been underway for months.
Republicans’ rush to gerrymander congressional districts across several Southern states after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling hollowed out the Voting Rights Act is confusing voters and creating logistical headaches for local election officials. The changes are hitting while primary season is in progress.
The chaotic upheaval to an election season that could determine which party controls the US House is the latest fallout from an intensely partisan gerrymandering battle initiated by President Trump last year to protect Republicans’ slim majority.
Trump’s deal making with Xi may determine Hong Kong jailed activist Jimmy Lai’s fate — 7:55 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai once hoped Trump could help stop the imposition of a controversial national security law. The law not only took effect but was also used to sentence him to 20 years in prison.
Ahead of an anticipated trip by Trump to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, Lai’s son said his family is now hoping that Trump can help secure his father’s release.
Lai, a prominent critic of Beijing, founded a pro-democracy newspaper that was shut down during a crackdown following the city’s massive anti-government protests in 2019.
Trump is expected to discuss trade, the Iran war and Taiwan with Xi. But he said he is also planning to bring up Lai, telling conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, “there’s a little bitterness, I would say, with him and Jimmy Lai.”
Lai’s son says his family is hopeful that Trump could help, adding that it’s easier to resolve than many of the other complex geopolitical issues the leaders will discuss.
World shares are mixed and oil rises after Trump rejects Iran’s response to cease-fire proposal — 7:34 a.m.
By the Associated Press
World shares were mixed after Wall Street set more records, and oil rose more than 2 percent following President Trump’s rejection of Tehran’s response to the latest US proposal on ending the war in Iran.
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US futures edged less than 0.1 percent lower.
In early European trading, Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 0.2 percent to 10,253.99. Germany’s DAX fell less than 0.1 percent to 24,328.17, and France’s CAC 40 lost 0.8 percent to 8,049.31.
In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.5 percent to 62,417.88 after briefing reaching another record high in intraday trading at above 63,300. Technology-focused investment holding company SoftBank Group, one of Japan’s largest stocks, fell more than 6 percent.
South Korea’s Kospi gained 4.3 percent to 7,822.24. It also hit an all-time intraday high, led by gains from tech-related stocks including Samsung Electronics and memory chip maker SK Hynix.
Democrats vow to fight $1 billion Senate security proposal for White House ballroom — 5:21 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Republicans returning to Washington on Monday are facing questions about a $1 billion Senate security proposal that could help pay for President Trump’s ballroom as Democrats say they will try to defeat it.
Senate Republicans added the money for White House security to a spending bill that would restore funding for immigration enforcement agencies that Democrats have blocked since February. The steep security proposal was put forward after a man was charged with trying to assassinate Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last month.
Republicans are using a partisan budget maneuver to push the spending legislation through Congress without any Democratic votes. But in a letter to colleagues Monday morning, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats will fight it in other ways, including by pushing the Senate parliamentarian to strike the ballroom security money from the budget bill and offering amendments forcing Republicans to vote on it.
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Trump rejects Iran’s peace offer as ‘unacceptable’ — 1:36 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Iran sent its response to the latest US proposal to end the Iran war via Pakistani mediators on Sunday, but President Trump quickly rejected it in a social media post as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” — the latest setback to efforts to resolve the standoff in the Persian Gulf that has throttled shipping and sent energy prices soaring.
Iranian state television reported that Tehran rejected the US proposal as amounting to surrender, insisting instead on “war reparations by the United States, full Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, an end to sanctions, and the release of seized Iranian assets.”
Washington’s latest proposal addressed a deal to end the war, reopen the strait, and roll back Iran’s nuclear program.
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