Monday morning news: July 27, 2026

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Iran latest » The U.S. military stopped bombing Iran Thursday night, and it hasn't resumed. That halted two weeks of nightly airstrikes.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Sunday President Trump is giving peace talks a little breathing room:

WALTZ: We've had both Oman and Iran, and a number of our other negotiators, engaged at every level, from the most senior levels all the way down to the technical level over the past few weeks, and particularly in the past few days.

Iran has stopped firing missiles at American forces. But it's still going after ships. Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it fired warning shots at several vessels in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.

Attacks on shipping started the latest US bombing campaign. Iranian drones and missiles later killed three American soldiers at an air base in Jordan.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his support once more for keeping the pressure on Teheran.

NETANYAHU:  When this regime is either toppled or it's sufficiently weakened that it knows it has to end its nuclear program and has to, uh, change its course. That's really what President Trump is trying to achieve, and I back his, uh, fully

Netanyahu to meet w/ Trump, attend Graham funeral » And the prime minister is on a plane to Washington today.

NETANYAHU: (Speaking in Hebrew)

He told Israeli leaders at a Sunday cabinet meeting that he will meet with President Trump at the White House tomorrow, where the Iran war will top the agenda.

Afterwards, he’ll take part in the funeral of the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, someone the prime minister called “a big friend of Israel.”

Graham’s body lies in state at the Capitol tomorrow, ahead of a service at Washington National Cathedral. South Carolina services follow Wednesday.

Heatwave in southern US » Millions of Americans are still enduring a brutal heatwave today.

Forecasters say it could feel like 115 degrees in parts of Iowa and Nebraska. But it reaches much farther. Bob Oravec of the National Weather Service, said Sunday.

ORAVEC: The heat that is affecting large parts of the country from the Western US into the middle part of the country from the Canadian border all the way down to the Gulf Coast is affecting about a hundred and thirty million people. These are people that are under either an extreme heat warning or a heat advisory

Those alerts are still up this morning. A heat dome is driving it, high pressure parked overhead like a lid. Forecasters say it slides south and east this week, toward Memphis and the Gulf Coast.

Oravec says storms should bring some relief by midweek, but the pattern holds through the end of the month.

Islamic attack at German LGBT attack » German police say the suspect in a deadly attack on an LGBT parade in Berlin was an Islamic extremist. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports.

BENJAMIN EICHER: Officers tracked down 21-year-old Abdul Ballout Sunday evening in a Berlin suburb. Police say he ran at them with a sharp object at which time they shot and killed him.

Investigators say Ballout drove a van into a crowd in a park near the Brandenburg Gate Saturday night, then stabbed people with a machete.

One woman was killed, 29 others were hurt.

Ballout was born in Germany. He traveled to Lebanon last year trying to join ISIS in Syria. A Berlin court convicted him in May of spreading ISIS propaganda and plotting an attack. But the court suspended his sentence, citing time already served.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Box office » At the weekend box office, The Odyssey continues to rake in the big bucks.

CLIP (The Odyssey trailer): Tell me what you remember. A wife … a son …

Christopher Nolan’s latest epic earned another $87 million dollars domestically. Among R-rated movies, only Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine made more money in its second weekend.

Worldwide, The Odyssey has now raked in $640 million dollars in roughly 10 days.

Lagging far behind, Disney’s live action remake of Moana, Toy Story 5, and Minions & Monsters each took another roughly $10 million dollars.

I'm Kent Covington:

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