I & I Editorial BoardSome headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.
Trump Shows Patience With Iran At Mideast Allies’ Urging
Trump Delays Action Against Iran — But Not Forever — Donald Trump, Truth Social
Trump says US will end Iran war ‘very quickly’ if talks fail — Iran International
U.S. Seized Iran-Linked Oil Tanker in the Indian Ocean — Wall Street Journal
Trump sets new deadline for Iran: Next week — ABC News, via MSN
Senate advances resolution to limit Trump’s Iran war powers for first time — CBS New, via MSN
‘Trump Rx’ Is Slashing Costs For Drugs
Trump touts a major TrumpRx expansion, adding more than 600 generic drugs — AP
Trump: First President Ever To Have Decline In Rx Prices — Rapid Response 47, via X
Trump and Mark Cuban’s Surprise TrumpRx Alliance Sends Big Pharma Reeling — International Business Times
L.A.’s Vote For Mayor Will Tell You A Lot About California Voters
Democrat voters keep making the same mistakes — Larry Elder, New York Post
Decline Is A Choice — Roundup, Instapundit
LA’s DSA Councilmembers back Karen Bass for Mayor, turning on fellow socialist Nithya Raman — NY Post
Are Pollsters Missing the ‘Silent Spencer Pratt Voters’? — Legal Insurrection
What Did U.S.-China Summit Achieve?
America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
After the Trump-Xi summit, China, not America, is on the back foot — John Lee, The Hill
The World Economy After the Trump-Xi Summit — Project Syndicate, via TIPP Insights
Trade, Taiwan Questions Loom After China Summit — Carolina Lumetta, RealClearPolitics
Summit Wins, Xi’s Thucydides Trap, and China’s Great Reversal — RodMartin.org
Global Birth-Dearth Is Not Good News
The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think — Derek Thompson
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once — Financial Times
Falling birth rates don’t have to be a crisis — Vox.com, via MSN
Court Ruling Ends Trucking Industry’s Use Of Illegal Immigrant Drivers
SCOTUS Decision Hits Shipping Brokers Like a Ton of Freight — Beege Welborn, Hot Air
Court Ruling Has Immediate Effect On Truckers — NotTheBee
Justice is coming for victims of dangerous illegal-migrant truckers — New York Post
Britain’s ‘Silent Majority’ Starts To Roar
Unite the Kingdom’s new crusade has begun in the UK — and that’s a good thing — Andrea Widburg, American Thinker
‘Spiritual and Cultural Awakening’: Tens of Thousands of Britons Flood London For Tommy Robinson Rally — Breitbart
The far-Right has got a new weapon: glamorous young women — The Telegraph
AI Boom Continues: A Boon For Blue-Collar Workers, But Who Else?
The AI economy is rewriting the American Dream — and blue-collar workers are poised to win — CNBC
Google debuts new AI models, personal AI agents in effort to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic — CNBC
Can AI Replace Me Already? — Richard Hanania’s Newsletter
‘Chinese AI Models Cannot Defeat U.S. Big Tech’ — Goldman Sachs Forecast, via Asia Business Daily
‘Lower-value human capital’ is what bank CEO calls thousands of workers he’s cutting because of AI — MarketWatch
Miscellaneous, But Still Important, Stuff …
San Diego mosque shooters live streamed massacre, left manifesto detailing accelerationist views before one shot the other in murder suicide — The Post Millennial
A bad day to be a terrorist or drug kingpin … — American Thinker
Justice Thomas: Courage in Defense of Natural Law Constitutionalism — John C. Eastman, The American Mind
Trump’s Border Czar Has a Smart Surprise for Sanctuary Cities Trying to Hide Criminals — Daily Signal
Venezuela Is Proving a Rare Successful Intervention — Jose Chalhoub, Real Clear World
Cuba Falling: What’s All This Talk About Drones? — Sarah Anderson, PJ Media
Civil war brewing at New York Times following publication of column alleging rape of Palestinians — Ynet News
Tell Us Something We Don’t Know: Journalists drink too much, are bad at managing emotions, and operate at a lower level than average: study — Business Insider
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So the courts, moving at their usual glacial pace, finally made trucking companies liable for hiring illegal aliens, but 12 years after Trump promised to end the H1B program, we still have hundreds thousands of foreigners taking American jobs.