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Good morning. I hope you had a great weekend. While we in America were celebrating the country’s birthday, my colleagues in London, Lauren Jackson and Lara McCoy, were following the news. (They had help from our football expert Tom Wright-Piersanti.) I’ll let the team kick us off with a buffet of the latest, then we’ll explore some cultural highlights and discover a nice recipe for Seattle-style chicken teriyaki. Let’s go!

funeral ceremony in Iran

In Iran, the funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was both revered and hated as the country’s religious leader for decades, is entering a new day. The coffins of the Ayatollah and several of his family members are on display in Tehran, months after those killed in airstrikes as the war began.

Tens of thousands of Iranians came from all over the country to mourn and pray. Foreign officials, many from authoritarian countries, use the meeting to hold diplomatic meetings in the city. Our friends also went to the country for the first time since the start of the war. They described the funeral as “part farewell, part show, part turning point.” (This link, along with other links in the newsletter, is free for you to read.)

Khamenei’s successor, his son Mojtaba Khamenei, is currently in office but has not been seen at the funeral or in public since his appointment as religious leader. The city is full of damaged buildings and Iranians face water shortages and power outages as the government tries to use the pomp and circumstances of the funeral to demonstrate its power.

Looser gun rules

The Trump administration is making it easier to own and use guns. It rolls back more than three dozen gun regulations, and the changes are expected to:

• Restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness

• Stop cracking down on illegal sales

• Supervision regarding private arms transactions should be relaxed.

These moves are not a surprise. President Trump has vowed to be “the best friend gun owners ever had in the White House” ahead of the 2024 election. He is now effectively returning the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to the way it operated under his first administration. (Joe Biden signed new gun regulations after a series of mass shootings, and Trump is reversing them.)

Still, critics say the changes will make Americans less safe. They worry the moves come as the bureau is already weakened and hundreds of officials have been diverted to immigration enforcement.

Read more about the changes here. (This link is free.)

Football is shocking

The United States will face Belgium in the last 16 rounds of the World Cup tonight at 20:00. And surprisingly, the Americans’ top scorer in this tournament, Folarin Balogun, might be on the field.

Balogun, who received a red card following video review in the Americans’ last game, was supposed to be suspended for the Belgium game. However, after the match, Trump called Gianni Infantino, president of football’s world governing body FIFA, and asked him to reconsider the decision. Yesterday, FIFA announced that Balogun’s suspension had been lifted.

“The comeback is quite unusual,” our colleagues write. For the first time since 1962, FIFA allowed a player who should have been suspended after receiving a red card in a World Cup match to take to the field. The Belgian football federation reacted angrily and said it was “stunned by FIFA’s decision”. The right to appeal the decision was granted.

Infantino spent years currying favor with Trump. Last year, FIFA created and awarded Trump a peace prize after the president’s unsuccessful public campaign to win the Nobel.

More about the World Cup

LATEST NEWS

Policy

worldwide

More than nostalgia: Members of China’s Generation Z are coping with high unemployment and low wages by posting blurry, low-resolution scenes from the 2000s online. A new genre called Chinese Dreamcore. Click on the video above To see more.

Deep thinkers: AI companies are hiring philosophy experts to help their robots and society guide each other. (This link is free.)

“Only Muslims”: A Texas mom wanted to throw a pool party her community would feel comfortable with. The answer ruined his life.

Your choice: Yesterday’s most clicked link on The Morning was about the movies that define America.

Metropolitan Diary: A spontaneous parade.

Effective chef: Bertrand Grébaut’s restaurant Septime changed the course of French cuisine by bridging the gap between formal haute cuisine and traditional bistro fare. He died of cancer at the age of 44.

TODAY’S NUMBER

14

-This is the weight in pounds of Mike Wallace’s unvarnished three-volume history of New York. The first volume, “Gotham,” written with Edwin G. Burrows, won the Pulitzer Prize. Wallace died yesterday at the age of 83.

SPORT

Women’s tennis: Naomi Osaka defeated Aryna Sabalenka in straight sets to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time.

Swimming: Canadian Summer McIntosh raised the bar in the 200-meter butterfly by breaking the longest-standing world record in women’s swimming.

Rowing in the ocean: Kelsey Pfendler became the first American woman to row solo from California to Hawaii. The journey of more than 2,300 miles took more than 43 days.

RECIPE OF THE DAY

I found this recipe for something Seattle style chicken teriyaki because it’s a bit more appealing than the traditional Japanese preparation. In addition to cinnamon and pineapple, the sauce has sugar, soy sauce, and lots of garlic and ginger. Corn starch gives it body. It makes a perfect meal with rice and steamed greens.

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

When the museum opened an additional building last year, it decided to create something that would give visitors “radical access” to its collections. Visitors to the V&A East Storehouse can wander the corridors looking at the products displayed on the shelves or book a work one-on-one. Among those visiting the site: David Bowie fans. The museum acquired its archive in 2023. (This story is free to read.)

More about culture

• Is he in the grip of World Cup fever? Complete the matches with these seven inspiring football documentaries.

• It’s always a pleasure to read Kurt Andersen’s writings about storytellers, swindlers, and frauds. Read Ru Marshall’s review of “American Trickster,” her book about the secret lives of quack anthropologist Carlos Castaneda. You will see!

MORNING TIPS

Invent your own “love language”. It builds rapport!

To read “Property,” Valerie Martin’s searing, excellent and disturbing 2003 novel about the toxic effects of American slavery. Here’s the first episode, impressive and awful.

shake it Improve your fitness routine with these exercise tips. (This link is free.)

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