A fire tore through an assisted living facility in Massachusetts, trapping residents inside, including some who were hanging out of windows screaming for help, authorities said Monday. Nine people died and at least 30 were injured in the blaze, which has been put out. Firefighters responded to the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River at about 9:50 p.m. Sunday and were met with heavy smoke and flames at the front of the building, the state Department of Fire Services said in a news release. About 70 people live in the house. The fire was out by Monday morning and firefighters were able to get inside and rescue numerous occupants. About 50 firefighters responded, including 30 who were off-duty.

Americans will now pay more to send letters, postcards, and international mail, as the U.S. Postal Service raised prices again Sunday—marking the latest in a series of rate hikes aimed at stabilizing the agency’s finances. The cost of a Forever stamp jumped from 73 cents to 78 cents, a 7.4 percent increase. Postcards now cost 61 cents, up from 56 cents, while sending a letter or card overseas will cost $1.70, up from $1.65. The Postal Service first proposed the increase in April, citing its ongoing efforts to meet its legal obligation to remain financially self-sufficient. In a statement at the time, the agency noted that its prices “remain among the most affordable in the world.” The latest hike arrives amid years of steady increases.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas may be nearing a breakthrough, suggesting a deal could be reached “over the next week.” Speaking to reporters, Trump confirmed that the United States is supporting a framework that includes a 60-day ceasefire, phased releases of Israeli hostages, partial withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and the launch of broader talks to end the war. “We are talking, and hopefully we’re going to get that straightened out over the next week,” Trump said. Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, echoed the optimism during remarks in Teterboro, N.J., telling reporters that talks were progressing and confirming he would meet with senior Qatari officials on the sidelines of the FIFA Club World Cup final.

Dozens of people have been killed in fighting between local militias and clans in Syria ’s Sweida province, where government security forces sent to restore order Monday also clashed with local armed groups. The Interior Ministry said more than 30 people died and nearly 100 others have been injured. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor reported at least 50 dead, including two children and six members of the security forces. Clashes initially broke out between armed groups from the Druze religious minority and Sunni Bedouin clans, the observatory said, with some members of the government security forces “actively participating” in support of the Bedouins.

A controversial Israeli proposal to construct a large-scale “humanitarian city” in Gaza is facing growing skepticism inside the government, after IDF officials informed the limited security cabinet Sunday that the project could take up to a year to complete and cost as much as 15 billion shekels—more than double initial estimates. The revised timeline and cost projections reportedly triggered frustration from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sharply criticized military commanders and demanded they present “a more realistic” and affordable version of the plan. According to multiple cabinet sources, Netanyahu instructed the IDF to deliver a detailed blueprint within days, despite internal military resistance.

A special ministerial committee, headed by Likud Minister Amichai Chikli, began the hearing process regarding the dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on Monday.

The search for those missing after Yemen’s Houthi rebels sank a ship in the Red Sea has ended as at least four people are presumed dead and 11 others remain unaccounted for, the private security firms involved said Monday. The announcement came as satellite photos show long, trailing oil slicks from where the bulk carrier Eternity C sank, as well as another where the sinking of the bulk carrier Magic Seas by the Iranian-backed Houthis took place. Both ships were attacked over a week ago by the rebels as part of their campaign targeting vessels over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip that’s upended shipping in the Red Sea, through which $1 trillion of goods usually passes a year.

In many ways, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign stop was a perfect storm of failings coming together that allowed 20-year-old Michael Thomas Crooks to climb on top of a nearby building and take eight shots at the once and future president. One attendee was killed, two others wounded and a bullet grazed Trump’s ear before a Secret Service counter sniper opened fire on Crooks and killed him. That day jolted an already chaotic race for the White House and solidified Trump’s iconic status in his party and beyond. It also became a turning point for the agency tasked with protecting the president. As more details emerged about what went wrong, questions multiplied: What happened to the Secret Service’s planning?

A fast-moving wildfire destroyed a historic lodge and dozens of other structures on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, forcing officials to close access to that area for the season, the park said Sunday. The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing were among the 50 to 80 structures lost. “Numerous” historic cabins in the area also were destroyed, the park said. Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known as the White Sage Fire and the Dragon Bravo Fire.

Ten terrorists who were released in the Shalit deal in 2011 and exiled to the Gaza Strip were killed in an IDF airstrike in Gaza in a joint operation by the Shin Bet and IDF over the past week. Two the slain terrorists, Bassem Abu Sanina and Riyad Assila, were responsible for the murder of Israeli civilian Chaim Karman, H’yd, in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem in 1998. Before his imprisonment, Assila was an operative in the military wing of Hamas and a member of the “West Bank Headquarters”—the organization’s operational arm in Gaza for carrying out attacks in Yehuda and Shomron. After he was deported to Gaza, he served as an operative in Hamas’s “Jerusalem Department,” overseeing the recruitment of terrorists from East Jerusalem and the planning of additional attacks.