The investigative group Bellingcat says newly released video “appears to contradict” U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian school that killed over 165 people. The video shared by Bellingcat is a three-second clip of a video on the day the school was struck, circulated Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency. The video shows a munition falling on a building. A Bellingcat researcher identified the munition as a Tomahawk cruise missile — which only the U.S. is known to possess in this war.

The U.S. military says it has killed six men in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers. Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small vessels in early September. As with most of the military’s statements on the more than 40 known strikes, U.S. Southern Command said it targeted alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs. It posted a video on X that showed a small boat floating on the water and then being blown up.

The Iran war has begun its second week. Iran has named a son of its late supreme leader as his successor. U.S. President Donald Trump already had called Mojtaba Khamenei “unacceptable" in the role. Both sides kept striking new targets over the weekend, including civilian ones. Oil prices shot above $100 a barrel. The U.S. military announced the death of another soldier. Saudi Arabia announced the first deaths in the war there. Anger grew in Arab countries over Iran’s launching of hundreds of missiles and drones. The Israeli military’s chief of staff warned that the war “will take a long time.”

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index has plunged more than 6% after oil prices soared to over $100 a barrel due to disruptions from the war in the Middle East. The Nikkei tumbled 6.2% to 52,166.92 shortly after trading began early Monday. South Korea’s Kospi sank 6.3% and shares in Australia and New Zealand more than 3%. Crude prices are at their highest level in more than three and a half years as the war ensnares major oil-producing countries and hinders exports from the Persian Gulf. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, was at $109.46 a barrel and U.S. benchmark crude traded at 107.37 a barrel. Both were 18% above their closing prices Friday.

Two major economic plans unveiled at the annual meeting of China’s legislature outline top priorities. One is building a robust domestic market. The other is building China into a tech leader. Together they highlight the government’s balancing act between its efforts to transform the economy while managing a prolonged period of sluggishness. China is such a large exporter that the choices it makes affect countries and jobs around the world. The plans were presented at the opening of the National People’s Congress and are set to be endorsed by the rubber-stamp legislature on the final day of the eight-day session on Thursday.

Fox News has apologized for airing old video of a hatless President Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony as part of its coverage. In polarized times, online critics suggested that Fox was trying to make Trump look better with pictures that suggested he wasn't wearing a baseball cap on Saturday during the ceremony for the return of the remains of six service members killed in the Middle East war. Fox insisted this wasn't so, that a staff member inadvertently called up video of an old ceremony when preparing the story. Fox News anchor Johnny “Joey” Jones said he believed it was an honest mistake, “but that doesn't mean it was an acceptable one.”

“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday at 84. His death from complications of Parkinson’s disease was reported by his wife of 43 years, Kathy McDonald. The performer was a longtime presence in the Bay Area music scene, where peers included the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane and his onetime girlfriend, Janis Joplin. He wrote or co-wrote hundreds of songs, from psychedelic jams to soul-influenced rockers, and released dozens of albums.

Oil prices have jumped past $100 a barrel as the Iran war disrupts oil production and shipping in the Middle East. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, was at $101.19 shortly after trading resumed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, up 9.2% from its settlement price of $92.69 Friday. Crude prices haven’t been that high in more than three and a half years. The Middle East is home to the world’s largest concentration of proven oil reserves. Supply concerns have driven crude and gasoline higher as the war ensnares major oil-producing countries and hinders exports from the Persian Gulf.

Tarik Skubal is thinking about pitching again for the United States in the World Baseball Classic after the Detroit Tigers ace had previously planned to make just one start. His mindset changed after he started for the U.S. in a 9-1 win over Britain on Saturday night. Skubal said he was talking with his agent, Scott Boras, and the Tigers about the situation but had not made a final decision.

A device thrown by a counterprotester during an anti-Islam demonstration in New York City was an improvised explosive. Police say the object contained nuts, bolts and screws, plus a hobby fuse. Police Commissioner Tisch said Sunday that the bomb squad confirmed the device was not a hoax or smoke bomb, but a life-threatening improvised explosive. Two counterprotesters are in custody with charges pending. The confrontation unfolded outside the home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a protest organized by the far right activist Jake Lang to “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.”  Police also said Sunday that they were looking into a second suspicious device found in the same area of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Defending champion Japan became the first nation to clinch a quarterfinal berth in the World Baseball Classic, then rallied on Masataka Yoshida's two-run homer in the seventh inning to beat Australia 4-3 at the Tokyo Dome and assure first place in its first-round group. Japan clinched advancement earlier Sunday when South Korea lost to Taiwan 5-4 in 10 innings. Japan’s win clinched first place in Group C for Shohei Ohtani and the Samurai Warriors, who are 3-0. At Miami, Juan Soto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Junior Caminero and Austin Wells homered as the Dominican Republic routed the Netherlands 12-1 in seven innings.

A member of the National Transportation Safety Board says he has been fired without explanation by the Trump administration. Todd Inman says he received notice Friday that his position on the board had been terminated, effective immediately. The White House had no immediate response to a message left by The Associated Press seeking comment. Inman was the lead board member overseeing two major crash investigations last year. Those included the collision of an Army helicopter with an airliner near the nation's capital and the deadly Kentucky crash of a UPS cargo plane. Inman's dismissal follows the firing last year of another board member, who sued over his firing.

Giannis Antetokounmpo won’t play Sunday night against the Orlando Magic as the Milwaukee Bucks continue to work him back gradually from the right calf strain that caused him to miss 15 straight games. The Bucks are playing for a second straight night. The 6-foot-11 forward had 27 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in 27 minutes Saturday as the Bucks snapped a four-game skid with a 113-99 victory over the Utah Jazz. Antetokounmpo has played three games since returning from the calf injury that knocked him out for five weeks.

A retired Lebanese security officer has gone missing and his family says Israeli operatives kidnapped him to get information about a long-missing Israeli airman. Relatives tell The Associated Press that a group of operatives lured Ahmed Shukr to the town of Zahle with a fake offer to buy some land from him. His wife says camera footage shows him leaving his car and getting into another. The family says his phone last registered in a nearby village the next morning. Lebanese prosecutors have charged four suspects. One of them is under arrest. Israel’s military has refused to comment. Shukr’s family says he is sick and needs daily medication.