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1. CNN polling guru quotes Happy Gilmore to show how badly Trump is faring with the public on affordability

   Americans now believe ‘the price is wrong’ when it comes to Donald Trump and his policies, says CNN data analyst Harry Enten

2. Wife arrested nearly a quarter of a century after her husband was found dead by a Texas lake

   Lisa Honrud was arrested Monday morning in connection with the 2002 murder of her husband Frank Weiss, police have said

3. Iran-US war latest: Trump says extension to two-week ceasefire ‘highly unlikely’ by Wednesday evening without a deal

   Iranian parliamentary Speaker Mohammad ​Bagher Ghalibaf said Tehran does not accept negotiations with the US under threats

4. Japan approves scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports in a change of its postwar pacifist policy

   Japan has endorsed scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change of its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry and deepen cooperation with defense partners

5. New Zealand Prime Minister Luxon survives party leadership vote months before election

   New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he survived a vote on his leadership among his own party’s lawmakers, after recent slumps in the polls prompted speculation he might be ousted

6. Teen cannabis use linked to slower gains in memory and focus

   The brain is only about 80% developed in adolescence

7. Starmer-Mandelson latest: PM braces for difficult day as Olly Robbins to hit back over vetting scandal

   Sir Olly Robbins, who was sacked as head of the Foreign Office last week, will reportedly ‘not hold back’ in his defence when he gives evidence on Tuesday over Mandelson’s appointment

8. A preschool classroom is shaken by loss after a mass killing in Louisiana

   Across Shreveport, Louisiana, schools were limping through the day, stung by the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years

9. Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky to bolster air defences against Kremlin attacks with anti-missile system ‘within a year’

   Zelensky says that the shortage of Patriot missiles is ‘worse than ever’ through the US-Iran crisis

10. Amazon accused of price fixing by pressuring brands to keep costs high on certain products, state says

    Newly unsealed court papers allege that the company used its ‘overwhelming bargaining leverage’ to make vendors charge more for their products on rival marketplaces