A person has died following a Monday shooting in southern Maine involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said in a statement.

“This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford. A person was killed. ICE was involved,” Fecteau wrote. “These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me.”

Biddeford is about 18 miles south of Portland.

A white Kia sedan was seen with several bullet holes through the front windshield, and a white police SUV apparently smashed its side, the Portland Press Herald reported.

The Biddeford Police Department confirmed to the Herald that a shooting involving ICE had taken place.

A police department representative declined to comment when reached by HuffPost and instead referred questions to ICE, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Who should fill the vacant seat after Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) sudden death?

If it were up to President Donald Trump (and given the state of the modern Republican party, it very well might be), it would be awarded to Graham's sister, Darline.

Trump publicly backed the idea in a social media post Monday morning, saying he'd called South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) to push the idea.

"This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!" Trump said.

McMaster is set to name a replacement to serve out the remainder of Graham's current term, while the state will also hold a special primary to find a new GOP nominee for November's general election.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has sent a letter to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon seeking information on whether he lobbied the U.K. government against a tax on bankers’ bonuses on the advice of the now-late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In a letter sent to Dimon Friday, Warren, who’s the top Democrat on the Senate banking committee, questioned his past contact with Epstein.

"It is critical that Congress and the American public fully understand the extent of any interactions the bank and you had with Epstein,” she wrote.

Her outreach follows documents released by the Department of Justice earlier this year showing that Britain's former business secretary, Pete Mandelson, emailed Epstein in 2009 saying that Dimon should "mildly threaten" Britain's then chief finance minister over the tax, as the FT previously reported.

A spokesperson for JPMorgan told Reuters on Monday that "At no point did [Dimon] take counsel from him, directly or indirectly," referring to Epstein.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will reinstate its blockade of Iranian ports while also collecting a 20% "reimbursement" fee from cargo ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, pitching the toll as "a matter of FAIRNESS."

"The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran," Trump asserted in a social media post Monday morning, willfully ignoring Iran’s ability to shut down the strait as it has repeatedly done since Trump's war began.

“We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE,” he continued, "so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving."

Trump then proceeded to proclaim that "from this point forward," the United States will be known as "THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT."

Naturally, Trump said, that means the U.S. will charge ships to safely transit Hormuz, even though he's criticized Iran for also attempting to do the same.

(The Strait of Hormuz was safe and free to transit until Trump himself destabilized the region in late February.)

More than 200 economists and AI researchers from around the world have signed a letter published Monday that urgently calls for enhanced research on AI's economic impacts, and for work to ensure it "complements human capabilities and benefits society."

The letter titled "We Must Act Now: A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy" warns of the world being wholly unprepared for the radical economic transformations AI will have, which could be larger and faster than the Industrial Revolution.

The signees include 16 Nobel laureates and the co-founders of OpenAI and Anthropic.

"AI capabilities are advancing far faster than our understanding of the economic implications," wrote Stanford University professor Erik Brynjolfsson, who serves as director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. "We must act now to guide AI to complement humans rather than simply imitate them — and to generate prosperity for the many, not just the few."

"We are driving in the fog, and it is extraordinarily difficult to anticipate what will happen next. It’s the right time for a coordinated effort to bring clarity to a confusing situation," wrote Tom Cunningham, a researcher at the nonprofit METR.

U.K. counterterrorism police are now investigating the suspected killing of former British member of parliament Ann Widdecombe, who was found dead inside her home with serious injuries last week, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced Monday.

Police had previously said her death was not considered to be an act of terror, but Mahmood's statement indicates that assessment has now changed.

"The police are pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for this attack," Mahmood wrote on X, formerly Twitter, adding that she will be updating the House of Commons on the probe later on Monday.

Meanwhile, a 28-year-old man who was taken into custody in the aftermath of Widdecombe's death on suspicion of murder has been rearrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) South East said in a statement.

President Donald Trump told Fox News that the U.S. will “keep” the Strait of Hormuz and likely become its “guardian” after failed negotiations with Iran.

"We're gonna keep the strait, and we'll probably run it. We'll become the guardian of the strait,” he said in a phone interview with "Fox & Friends.”

“When we do that, we're gonna be reimbursed because the other nations are very wealthy; they’re on our side. And we can’t be expected to do that for nothing,” he went on.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has declared the global shipping route closed amid ongoing military attacks in the area.

WATCH IN FULL: President Donald J. Trump's interview with @foxandfriends this morning pic.twitter.com/ch4LY0m638

The Supreme Court is asking for millions from Congress to help boost security at the court’s home on Capitol Hill amid a rise in threats against the justices, their families, and other federal judges, The New York Times reported.

The proposal would reportedly see $6.5 million go toward a visitor screening center outside the court’s main building. It’s part of a $228 million budget request for the next fiscal year, which starts in October.

Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are scheduled to address the budget request — a roughly $20 million total increase — before the House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday. It would be the first time justices have testified before Congress since 2019.

Israel allegedly tried to recruit former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an intelligence asset as part of its regime change plan, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Unnamed U.S. officials cited by the Times said Israel has been covering Ahmadinejad's travel and housing expenses for years and sent operatives to meet with him internationally.

In the early days of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran in February, Israel set out to locate Ahmadinejad in Tehran with the intended goal of installing him as Iran's next leader.

After an Israeli airstrike hit his compound, a car arrived and picked up Ahmadinejad to take him to a safe location. But the former president was allegedly unhappy with the Israeli operation and eventually left the safe location.

He is now under the custody of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Times reported, citing Iranian officials.

Read more at The New York Times:

Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) told The Detroit News he is endorsing Rep. Haley Stevens in the contentious Democratic primary for the Senate seat he is vacating.

"She has demonstrated to me time and time again that she's a fighter," Peters told the outlet. "We need workhorses in the Senate, and we need someone who can do that job from day one. This is not a place for on-the-job training."

Stevens has been trailing progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed in recent polls.The Aug. 4 primary winner will likely compete against Mike Rogers, the presumed GOP nominee, in November.

Even the field for the World Cup final is for sale.

FIFA, accused of charging high prices for this year's tournament in the United States, is selling the grass that will be used for the July 19 final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey at $450 per piece.

Read more at The Associated Press:

Allies of Paramount CEO David Ellison have encouraged him to move the company's headquarters out of California and reallocate its planned spending in the state if California Attorney General Rob Bonta sues to block its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Semafor reported on Sunday.

Bonta is allegedly taking the lead on a lawsuit expected to be filed as soon as this week by California and other states, including New York, Washington and Connecticut, to block the merger, according to The New York Times.

A draft of the suit argues that the deal would stifle competition in the market for tentpole films, among other issues, the Times reported.

A huge fire tore through a beer hall in Bangkok overnight into Monday, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens before firefighters brought the blaze under control.

Footage shared online by first responders shows a huge blaze raging and plumes coming out of the front door of the Na Ladprao beer hall in the northern part of the Thai capital. People are seen trying to flee as thick black smoke billows into the sky.

Read more at The Associated Press:

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) isn’t hiding her interest in possibly running for South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R) seat following his sudden death on Saturday night.

Asked if she'd "eventually" consider campaigning for the Senate veteran’s spot during a Sunday morning appearance on "Fox News Live," the lawmaker said right now she’s focused on serving the people of South Carolina but was open to the idea.

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The United States and Iran each asserted Monday they controlled the Strait of Hormuz after a weekend of attacks stretching across the wider Middle East, further threatening any diplomacy to end the war.

The attacks, sparked by Iran striking a container ship Sunday in the strait off the coast of Oman, again underlined that the waterway that once saw a fifth of the world’s traded crude oil and natural gas pass through it remained the key issue in negotiations. The narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf has seen shipping disrupted since the start of the war as Iran maintained a chokehold on it by attacking commercial vessels around it, intimidating shippers.

Read more at The Associated Press:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died on Saturday, will be remembered as one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in the Senate.

But that wasn't always the case.

Read more here:

Sam Neill, a smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose career moved from art film to blockbuster as he dodged velociraptors in "Jurassic Park" to playing Holly Hunter’s husband in "The Piano," has died. He was 78.

In 2023, Neill disclosed he had been diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Neill died on Monday in Sydney, according to a statement posted to the actor’s social media page.

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