U.S. commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur say they have been blocked from entering the U.K. to attend speaking events over their views on Israel.

Uygur, a left-wing, Turkish American political activist who co-hosts the popular YouTube channel The Young Turks, and Piker, who is also a left-wing commentator and influencer, said they were scheduled to speak at the SXSW London festival later this week but were denied entry.

“I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore?” Uygur posted online Sunday after he said he was barred from boarding a flight to attend the festival and also give a speech at Oxford.

“The UK has revoked my visa as well. All at the behest of Israel,” Piker, who is Uygur's nephew, responded to his post.

Britain's interior ministry confirmed to Reuters that their travel had been canceled as "their presence in the UK may not be conducive to the public good.” The statement did not mention their stance on Israel as the reason.

I’ve been banned from the UK. I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday reiterated that the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. also covers the fighting in Lebanon.

"Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts," Araghchi wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "The U.S. and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation."

Araghchi's statement comes as Israel ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon.

Iran and the U.S. also traded strikes, raising questions about the ceasefire and a possible peace deal to end the war.

For immediate attention:The ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon. Its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. The US and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation.

Anthropic has decided to allow the European Union's cybersecurity agency to join Project Glasswing, an initiative enabling participants to test its Mythos model ahead of its wider release, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

The company informed the European Commission of its decision over the weekend after officials from the 27-nation bloc traveled to San Francisco last week to request access to the model, the report said.

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Prominent 2020 election denier Tina Peters is set to be released from prison on Monday, about two weeks after she was granted clemency by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D).

Peters, a former Colorado elections clerk, had been serving a prison sentence for tampering with voting machines as part of a failed effort to show that the 2020 election was rigged against Donald Trump.

Trump had repeatedly called for Peters' release.

It's unclear what time Peters will be set free, and her lawyer said she has no plans to speak to reporters upon her release, according to The Associated Press.

When you ask Adam Hamawy why he’s running for Congress, he sounds like a lot of other progressives.

He goes over his experience as a doctor, squabbling with insurance companies and seeing the cost of care rise. He mentions his time in the Army National Guard, serving as a combat trauma surgeon, and his time volunteering in war zones around the world.

"I've seen where we're spending our money," he told HuffPost in an interview. "We're told that we can't afford Medicare For All. But we always find money for bombs."

But it doesn't take long to get to the experience that helped put him on a more direct path to serving in Congress: His stint as a trauma doctor in Gaza during Israel’s assault on the region, when Israel’s seizure of a nearby border crossing left him and his colleagues trapped for a week at their hospital.

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Moderna said on Monday it has partnered with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to develop a potential vaccine against Bundibugyo ebolavirus, the strain linked to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Under the agreement, CEPI has committed up to $50 million to support preclinical development and early clinical testing of Moderna's investigational BDBV vaccine candidate.

CEPI said it would also initially invest up to $8.6 million for a shot developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, and an initial $3.2 million for a vaccine developed by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.

The World Health Organization last week recommended prioritizing several experimental drugs, including antibodies, antivirals and vaccines, for the treatment and prevention of BDBV.

CEPI is a global partnership working to accelerate the development of vaccines against epidemic and pandemic threats.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said his party "will launch a coordinated effort to kill" President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund," adding that Democrats will force Republicans to vote on the fund.

"Trump’s nearly $2 billion MAGA slush fund is his most brazen act of self-dealing yet and one of the most corrupt schemes ever launched by a president. Senate Democrats will not let it stand," Schumer wrote in a Dear Colleague letter. "This week, Senate Democrats will launch a coordinated effort to kill the slush fund before one cent goes out the door. And no matter what Republicans do, we will force them to vote."

"There will be no escape hatch," he continued. "No fake guardrails or backroom promises to hide behind. No Justice Department announcement that makes this corruption acceptable."

Meanwhile, three Democratic senators, Adam Schiff (Calif.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), are introducing a bill challenging the billion fund, aiming to "prevent taxpayer dollars" from being paid to the president and his allies, among other things, according to NBC News.

Read Schumer's letter in full here.

President Donald Trump offered some advice to the nation early Monday morning as the United States and Iran renewed hostilities amid a fragile ceasefire.

"Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end," the president wrote on Truth Social at 1:02 a.m. "It always does!"

Read more here:

Tough-on-crime outsider Abelardo de la Espriella took the lead in Colombia’s presidential race in the first round of voting Sunday night, setting up a runoff with Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro who questioned the results of the election.

With no candidate taking an outright majority of the vote, the election will head to a second round in June.

But Cepeda and Petro sowed doubt in the results of the first round.

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The U.S. said it struck Iranian military sites at the weekend and Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday it had targeted a U.S. base in response, the latest exchange of attacks amid negotiations to end the three-month-old war.

The U.S. and Iran have sporadically exchanged strikes since their ceasefire took effect in early April as diplomacy aimed at a more durable agreement drags on. A similar exchange occurred last Thursday and was described in near-identical terms by both sides.

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