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What to know:

• Kimmel has long targeted the president in his comedy. Last fall Kimmel was suspended by ABC and some of the network’s affiliates said they would take him off the air following a comment made about assassinated conservative leader Charlie Kirk. Kimmel was later brought back and said he was not trying to make light of Kirk’s killing, however, he did not apologize. Shortly after the incident, ABC signed Kimmel to a one-year contract extension that is due to keep him on the air until May 2027.
  
  

• “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” Melania Trump said in a social media post later echoed by her husband.
  
  

• Kimmel described the joke during his Monday night monologue as a light roast about the first couple’s age difference and “not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination.” Kimmel said he was sorry that the president and everyone at the event went through that traumatic and scary experience. There was no comment Monday from ABC.

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WORLD NEWS

Iran’s economy has been battered. Its leaders still think Trump will blink first

Over more than five weeks of bombardment, U.S. and Israeli strikes hit thousands of factories. The damage is reverberating across Iran’s economy, threatening increasing waves of layoffs, even as Iranians face skyrocketing prices. Read more.

Why this matters:

• It could get worse as the U.S. blockades Iranian ports, choking off many imports and oil exports that bring in billions of dollars. Iran’s leaders say they will only reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the blockade is lifted and the war ends. They are betting that an economy built to be self-reliant under decades of international sanctions can endure the pain longer than President Donald Trump. Economic woes sparked the mass protests that were crushed before the war and could again push Iranians into the streets.

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Inside the world’s largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museum

For decades, the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has remained unsolved. It remains the largest art theft in history. In 2013, the FBI said it knew who was responsible for the Boston museum heist but declined to name them, fueling speculation that persists today. Read more.

Why this matters:

• Geoffrey Kelly, a former FBI agent who led the investigation for more than two decades, is now offering the first detailed account of how investigators reached that conclusion. In a new book, “Thirteen Perfect Fugitives,” Kelly traces how the artworks moved through criminal networks, where violence took the lives of key suspects and witnesses, and challenges long-circulating theories by revisiting key details. Kelly also  publicly identifies the men he believes were involved. Over the years, tips have pointed to notorious crime boss Whitey Bulger, the Irish Republican Army and others. The story of the heist also includes a triple murderer known as “Meatball.”