THE WAR ROOM: President Trump said while at the G-7 summit in France that he hopes the war with Iran would soon be in the “rearview mirror” although he does not have a permanent or detailed peace agreement.

  “We’re dealing with people that I think are very rational,” Trump said. They are also smart and tough negotiators, unlikely to be pushovers despite having their military crushed. 

  US and Iranian officials are expected to gather at the lakeside resort of Bürgenstock in Switzerland on Friday to sign the initial agreement and start a 60-day cease-fire and negotiating period.  Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will be opened to shipping, but the US Navy is searching for sea mines that have ships reluctant to start moving.

WHAT PRICE GLORY? The Washington Post laid hands on an internal document that says President Trump’s White House Ballroom would cost $600 million, half of it to be paid by the treasury despite Trump’s claim that the project would cost $400 million, all of it to be paid by private donations.

  The White House is sticking with what Trump has previously said. “This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on March 31^st.

ANTIFA INDECTMENT: Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis brought an indictment against people they accuse of violently impeding immigration enforcement officers during the immigration crackdown earlier this year. 

Daniel Rosen, the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota, said the defendants were members of two Minneapolis-based antifa groups, a left wing anti-fascist movement. Twelve of the defendants were arrested on Tuesday, Rosen said. One was already in custody on other charges, and two remained at large.

  Antifa is not an organization with a leader or a headquarters but rather an undefined group of people who demonstrate against the political far right.  The Trump administration has gone so far as to accuse them of being a terrorist organization. 

  The defendants in this case are  charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer; solicitation to commit a crime of violence; interstate stalking; assault on a federal officer; and destruction of government property.

  No charges have been brought against officers who shot and killed two people demonstrating against immigration roundups.

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— Officials at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington say the shrouds blocking view of the Kennedy name on the building will remain in place during two years of renovations at the center. The shrouds were put up the day workers removed Donald J. Trump’s name from the building under court order, blocking any view of the removal.

  The federal judge who temporarily blocked the plan to close the center for renovations issued an order yesterday giving officials three days to update him on its plan.

— Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus in early May from a quarantine facility in Nebraska, overruling medical experts. Five weeks after she left the cruise ship, Angela Perryman is symptom-free but still held in quarantine

— Trump-endorsed Rep. Mike Collins won the Republican nomination for Senate in Georgia yesterday to run against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. It’s one of several races that could determine control of the Senate. 

— The US Education Department as part of its effort to put itself out of existence plans to move oversight of special-education services and civil rights out of the agency to other parts of the government, the department said yesterday.

— Workers have been dumping hundreds of gallons of hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool at the National Mall to kill an algae bloom that turned the water green. 

  President Trump promised that the water would be clear when he ordered $13 million in renovations that included painting the bottom of the pool American flag blue. The algae starting growing within days of completion. One theory has it that the combination of sunlight and the dark bottom combined to heat the water and feed the algae bloom.

IT’S POLITICAL: Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at an event in Manhattan on Monday that Joe Biden’s decision to run for re-election in 2024 at age 81 was a “terrible mistake for himself, his legacy and for the country.” 

  Speaking with New Yorker editor David Remnick, Clinton said that the Democratic Party’s loss in 2024 boiled down to a “terrible miscalculation” by President Biden. Clinton said that if Democrats had held an open primary that anybody else would have beaten Domald Trump. 

— Thousands of people have been in the streets of Albania in recent days protesting a proposed resort to be built on the Adriatic Sea by Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, directly across from a unoccupied island they claim to have “discovered” on a yacht trip with friends. Albanians are outraged at the prospect of protected and pristine coastline being defiled. 

THE SPIN RACK: The US attacked another suspected drug boat in the eastern Pacific, killing one man and leaving two survivors. That brings the number killed in these operations to 208. — A third of Illinois counties have passed resolutions seeking to separate from the power of the city of Chicago and form a 51^st state. 

BELOW THE FOLD: Bunnie Xo, the former sex worker and host of the “Dumb Blonde” podcast announced she has split from her husband, the facially tattooed but chemically slimmed down singer and rapper Jelly Roll. We are searching for a reason to care.