Two elections nobody has held yet are doing most of the deciding this morning. Waiting is free if you aren't the one standing somewhere. The people who are standing somewhere went out and did the same job they did last week, and that job doesn't pause for five weeks.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
The General Assembly: Trump offers Tehran a deal or annihilation, and Witkoff and Kushner sit three hours with Araghchi's team. See The War Today.
Gaza City: Katz stakes the city on a single abduction attempt, and the IDF denies three took place. See The War Today.
Judea and Samaria: Israel sweeps Biddu after the Ein Raya killing, and twenty-three battalions cover four hundred and ten localities. See The War Today.
The ballot: The Elections Committee bars Ofer Cassif over the attorney general's advice, with the opposition voting alongside Ben-Gvir. See Inside Israel.
Otzma Yehudit's price: Ben-Gvir asks for Defense while his own commissioner stops briefing him on promotions. See Inside Israel.
The draft: The army traces dozens of haredi psychiatric exemptions to the same clinics, psychiatrists, and law offices. See Inside Israel.
The sanctions coalition: Trump says he does not know about Britain's trade ban, with Burnham sitting beside him. See Israel and the World.
Damascus: Sharaa wants Israel back to the 1974 lines before the security arrangement that withdrawal was for. See Israel and the World.
Belleville and Manchester: Ontario's gunman dies of his wounds, and Manchester counter-terror arrests disrupt a plot against the community. See Israel and the World.
Berlin: Die Linke takes the capital with 25.7 percent, and whether it governs is the SPD's call. See Israel and the World.
The Houthis: Trump cancels the strike package he ordered after Riyadh asked, days after its airport was hit. See Developments to Watch.
Almost every position taken this morning is written for a government nobody has elected yet. What actually binds somebody today is smaller and duller than any of it — one Dutch decree an Israeli exporter has to read this week, an Argentine judge charging seven Iranians over a bomb that went off in 1994. Both came out of somebody doing a job, and neither waited on a mandate.
Today: Trump's ultimatum and the three hours that followed it, Katz staking Gaza City on one abduction, and Die Linke taking Berlin.