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Iran's top negotiators arrived in Qatar for talks on the emerging peace agreement between the Islamic Republic and the U.S.

Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's parliament, is said to be leading the delegation.

But there have been conflicting signals over how much progress has really been made, with Trump stating today:

"The deal with Iran will either be a great and meaningful one, or there will be no deal."

We shall see.

Even if a deal is reached tomorrow, the 1,500 ships stranded in Hormuz will still take time to clear (130 ships a day was the pre-war status quo), perhaps weeks or months.

So it seems inevitable the impact of this war will still be felt in some way by the Midterms in November. How will voters respond?

In other news today, Pope Leo formally apologized for the Catholic Church's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and warned of the risks of AI in his 42,300-word encyclical.

The Vatican is even teaming up with Anthropic to better address the impact of AI on humanity, according to reports.

At the end of the day, AI is not only a technological concern, but also a spiritual one: what does it mean to be human?