Five people were killed in a shooting on Monday in the northern German town of Stade, police said.

A suspect was arrested, German news agency dpa reported, citing police.

More information on what happened wasn't immediately available. Police said they were conducting a major operation in an area outside the town center.

Stade has about 50,000 inhabitants and is located west of Hamburg.

A 4.6 magnitude aftershock struck north of Venezuela’s capital of Caracas early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The aftershock was reported about 6 miles north of the capital, which continues to recover from the devastation of last week’s twin earthquakes. At least 1,450 people have been confirmed dead as of Saturday.

No damage was immediately reported from the aftershock, Reuters reported.

President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian negotiators will meet in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday at Tehran’s request.

This comes as Iran had previously said technical working group meetings under the interim U.S.-Iran deal weren’t scheduled to take place this week, Reuters said, citing Iran’s Tasnim news agency.

The contradictory statements point to the uncertainty around the future of the deal reached between the two sides.

A U.S. official on Sunday said that Washington and Tehran had agreed to halt attacks and resume talks following the recent bout of violence. But Iran’s position is unclear.

President Donald Trump on Monday touted the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, claiming it was "packed with happy people," while jabbing two of his Democratic predecessors in the process, and failing to mention the headwinds the event has faced.

"Do you think people appreciate what a fantastic job we did in building and operating the Great American State Fair at the National Mall, packed with happy people, and everybody loving it?" he wrote on his Truth Social platform. "Ask yourself this simple question, 'DO YOU THINK THAT OBUMA OR SLEEPY JOE BIDEN COULD HAVE DONE IT?' THE ANSWER IS NO!"

The president, however, failed to mention that the fair has been sparsely attended with entertainers outnumbering attendees at one point, according to NOTUS, which also noted that the event has been affected by power outages.

NOTUS reported the fair was affected by inclement weather Sunday, prompting organizers to briefly shut it down and urge attendees to seek shelter.

As the Supreme Court prepares to release rulings on some of this term's most closely watched cases, sources told The Wall Street Journal that some current justices have privately mentioned they miss one of their former colleagues for their ability to ease tensions.

Stephen Breyer, who was nominated by former President Bill Clinton and served on the court for about 28 years before retiring in 2022, helped bridge differences among justices and some saw him as "the court’s glue," the Journal said.

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Comcast CMCSA.O will split into two publicly traded companies through a spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky, separating its cash-generating broadband arm from a media and entertainment business under pressure from streaming rivals and industry consolidation.

Shares of the company rose more than 20% in premarket trading on Monday.

The latest U.S. media industry shake-up follows years of cord-cutting as legacy players chase scale to better compete with Netflix while Paramount Skydance's $110 billion deal for Warner Bros Discovery is set to boost competition.

Comcast, which leans on cable for much of its cash flow, is also losing broadband customers to fixed wireless offerings from T-Mobile and Verizon and to fiber rivals building out networks.

"The transaction we are announcing will unlock a more entrepreneurial management approach and open up a multitude of new opportunities for each business," Brian Roberts, chairman and co-CEO of Comcast, said.

The split, expected to be completed in about a year, will create one company anchored by Comcast's cable, wireless and business services arm and another built around Universal theme parks, film and TV studios, NBC, Peacock and the European media business Sky.

Mike Cavanagh, Comcast's co-CEO, will run the new NBCUniversal. Michael Angelakis, former chief financial officer, will return to lead Comcast as CEO, after initially joining as a strategic adviser ahead of the separation.

Comcast shareholders will own stock in both companies after the deal closes.

The company will keep a stake of as much as 19.9% in NBCUniversal for up to a year following the spinoff, which it plans to monetize over time.

The University of California, Berkeley, is planning to launch an institute named for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) who is set to retire from Congress at the end of her current term, according to multiple reports.

The "Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy," which is scheduled to open in January 2027, will train the next generation of political leaders "dedicated to strengthening American democracy," the university said.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Pelosi said the new institute wouldn't be focused on party politics.

"I view this as something very nonpartisan," Pelosi added.

Pelosi will also co-teach a class on Congress with professor Eric Schickler.

The institute has, so far, raised $35 billion of its $50 million fundraising goal, the university said.

One person was killed and another seriously injured on Sunday in a shooting at a popular entertainment spot in San Jose, California, that has been hosting a World Cup "fan zone" screening matches, police said.

There were no World Cup games being screened at the time of the shooting, with the only match of the day in the tournament finishing around 2 p.m. local time.

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In an interview with ABC's "This Week" released Sunday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed confidence that democratic socialists can succeed in races beyond the Big Apple after the three candidates he endorsed in last week's primaries won their races in New York, ousting two incumbent members of Congress.

"I think a democratic socialist can get elected anywhere across this country for any position. What I think we need to bring is a focus on working people," Mamdani told ABC's Jonathan Karl.

When Karl pointed out that Republicans will likely use Mamdani as a "poster child" for the Democratic Party, Mamdani shot back: "Let them."

"We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last six months, what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible," he added.

KARL: Republicans are gonna make you the poster child for the Democratic PartyMAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last 6 months, what we've delivered for working people are… pic.twitter.com/tlWQ12VYyp

On Sunday, celebrities made their way to the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles for "culture’s biggest night," celebrating the best and brightest in Black entertainment at the 2026 BET Awards.

Cardi B led the ceremony in nominations with six nods — she won for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist — and she performed a medley of hits from her latest album "Am I The Drama?" Kendrick Lamar, Mariah the Scientist, Doechii, Doja Cat and Latto were all up for multiple awards.

HuffPost covered all the biggest moments from the show.

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New York farmers can start submitting applications for up to $25,000 in relief from the state as part of a $30 million aid effort aimed at easing the hit to farmers from Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul said on Monday.

Over the last year, Trump has imposed an array of tariffs, including a global 10% tariff and retaliatory tariffs on China, which led Beijing to levy its own tariffs on U.S. soybean exports.

"The tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are reckless and damaging to so many of our industries, including our agricultural producers, who rely so heavily on the forces of international markets," Hochul said in a statement.

"I promised to stand up and fight for our farmers and I’m proud that our Agricultural Resiliency Against Tariffs Program will provide the much-needed relief to New York’s farmers who feed our communities."

The program, which will be funded by a $30 million allocation in the state budget, will grant direct payments starting at $1,000 to eligible agricultural producers, including dairy farmers and those working with livestock, specialty crops and aquaculture.

A study by North Dakota State University found tariffs on farmer cost inputs like chemicals, fertilizers and machinery generated about $958 million in federal revenue between February and October last year.

A large swath of Trump's tariffs was determined to have been illegal earlier this year by the U.S. Supreme Court, and Hochul's move comes as U.S. importers scramble to seek refunds. The administration is in the process of replicating many of the levies under more-tested legal authorities.

Hochul's office reported the state's farmers faced increased expenses of $20,000 annually and escalating costs on essential imports like grain and feed as a result of tariffs.

The Trump administration last week asked the U.S. Congress for $11 billion in additional aid for farmers facing high fuel and fertilizer costs since the Iran war.

The request follows a $12 billion aid package that was unveiled in December to help farmers affected by Trump's trade policies.

Oil prices steadied on Monday as Iran and the United States agreed to halt recent hostilities in the Gulf and Middle East producers pushed ahead with loading oil and liquefied natural gas despite fresh ship attacks.

The two countries also agreed to renew talks over the Strait of Hormuz, raising hopes of saving an interim peace deal that had been threatened by days of tit-for-tat strikes.

Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 4 cents at $72.03 a barrel by 0803 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 gained 44 cents, or 0.6%, to $69.67.

"There's still plenty of risk facing the oil market. Even so, participants appear to be ... focusing on what a continued recovery in oil flows would mean for the global balance," ING analysts said in a note on Monday.

"This complacency is odd and clearly leaves significant upside risk if the supply recovery proves slow."

Brent crude fell 10.6% last week for a third consecutive weekly decline after crude shipments through the strait rose last week to their highest since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began in late February.

Middle East producers are pushing ahead with loading oil and LNG despite fresh ship attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and renewed strikes between the U.S. and Iran in recent days, shipping data showed.

Saudi oil giant Aramco 2222.SEresumed crude oil loadings on Friday at its Ras Tanura terminal, west of the Strait of Hormuz, after they were halted for nearly four months.

Loadings continued even after a helicopter belonging to the company crashed on Sunday at Ras Tanura, killing 14 nationals. The cause of the crash was unknown.

The Supreme Court is wrapping up a term that has focused on President Donald Trump's expansive claims of presidential power.

Trump's efforts to restrict birthright citizenship, fire the heads of most independent agencies at will and remove a sitting Federal Reserve governor are among the remaining eight cases the justices are expected to decide this week, beginning Monday.

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