Five dead in San Diego mosque shooting; Iran peace proposal; Musk loses lawsuit

Authorities are investigating a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego as a hate crime, with five people dead including two suspects who died from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, officials said Monday.

Three people were killed and the two suspects, aged 17 and 18, were also dead. The FBI set up a tip line and said it was looking for information from the public as it investigated the shooting.

The shooting happened shortly before midday prayer Monday at the Islamic Center in the Clairemont area of San Diego. The ICSD is the largest mosque in San Diego County.

The mother of one suspect had called police about two hours prior, informing them that her son was missing along with several of her weapons and her vehicle. Police were looking for the teen and his friend when they received a 911 call from the mosque.

Iran has presented a new proposal aimed at permanently ending the war, officials in the region said Monday. President Donald Trump claimed he had paused further military strikes to allow for negotiations.

Trump has regularly threatened Tehran on social media and claimed that a peace deal is within reach. However, there has been no sign of an immediate breakthrough in the stalled negotiations to end the war, though the current truce has paused most attacks.

Trump claimed that the leaders of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia approached Washington over the chance of making a deal that would be “very acceptable” to the US and stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, claimed Pakistan had shared Iran’s latest proposal with the US. There were contradictory reports from Islamabad, which has acted as mediator; one source appeared pessimistic, while others said Tehran had made concessions.

A federal jury has ruled in favor of Sam Altman, in the trial between the world’s richest person and a leader of the AI boom.

The jury in Oakland, California, found Altman, OpenAI and its president, Greg Brockman, not liable for Elon Musk’s claims that they had unfairly enriched themselves and broken a contract made with Musk when founding the startup.

The verdict opens up a clear path for the company to pursue going public later this year at about a $1 trillion valuation.

The jury found that Musk’s lawsuit, which was filed in 2024, did not fall within the statute of limitations to bring his case. OpenAI had argued that Musk knew of the company’s plans to pursue a for-profit structure as early as 2017, so his case was filed after the three-year limit.

Greenland’s government has criticized the visit of a US doctor alongside Donald Trump’s special envoy, saying that Greenlanders are not “experimental subjects.”

Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alabama, Oregon and Idaho are holding primary contests Tuesday to select candidates ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Mark Fuhrman, a former Los Angeles police detective convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died. During the 1995 trial he reported having found a bloody glove at Simpson’s home, but the defense raised the prospect of racial bias, and he was found to have lied about having previously used racial slurs.

Japan has been gripped by fears of a naphtha shortage, as the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz causes shortages of the chemical.

A growing number of American women want to leave the US: last year, a Gallup poll found that 40% of those aged 15 to 44 said they would move abroad permanently if they had the chance. This proportion has soared fourfold since 2014, and compares with just 19% of men, whose numbers held steady over the last decade. From politics to gun violence, here is why.

When Frank Clarke wrote the script for Letter to Brezhnev — a working-class romance between a pair of girls from northern England and two Russian sailors on leave in Liverpool — the Cold War was at its height. So it was tough to get funding to make it, but Clarke managed, thanks to interest from an heiress. “I’m proud of how Letter humanized the Russians, at a time when Rambo was killing them,” reflects actor Margi Clarke.

When Gizzelle Cade saw a woman place an absorbent pad on the floor of a London restaurant for her dachshund, she confronted her and then posted about it. “The owner started to compare her dog to my son. She said: ‘Well, your baby shits and pisses. My dog needs to shit and piss too.’ She kept on comparing her dog to my newborn baby,” says Cade, an influencer from the US who now lives in the UK. As cities become increasingly dog-friendly, where should the line be drawn?

Experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data could make the federal government’s forecasts less reliable. As the US heads into hurricane season and a stretch of record-breaking temperatures with a “super El Niño” on the cards, concerns are growing about the impact of the 40% cut to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The night before the Arizona Wildcats’ 1997 NCAA national championship game against the University of Kentucky, Jason Terry and Mike Bibby slept in their uniforms out of nervousness. The Wildcats won — and that was the beginning of a superstition for Terry, who has embraced several quirks in hopes of maintaining a running streak. From players eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before games to boarding flights last, here are some of the NBA’s most particular superstitions.

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