The war in Iran essentially is over and we won, President Trump has said, though Iran appears to have dropped out of peace talks in Islamabad ahead of Wednesday’s expiration of a two-week US-Iran ceasefire.

Big Oil companies are looking for new, non-Middle East locations to drill for oil and the Trump administration’s energy secretary says high gas prices will linger into 2027.

Meanwhile, the federal government is about to dole out $166 billion plus interest to businesses that paid certain Trump tariffs in the last year. 

And these are just the lead news stories from Monday’s front page. 

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