Financial Times - Stefania Palma and James Politi / FBI probes second apparent Donald Trump assassination attempt

• Former president Donald Trump is safe after what the FBI is investigating as a potential assassination attempt in south Florida, just two months after a gunman tried to kill the Republican presidential candidate at a rally in Pennsylvania. 

• Law enforcement officials have detained a man who they said had been hiding in bushes bordering the Trump International Golf Club on Sunday afternoon. They found an AK-47 style rifle with a scope, two backpacks and a GoPro camera in the bushes, Ric Bradshaw, Palm Beach County Sheriff, told reporters on Sunday. 

• A Secret Service agent opened fire on the man after spotting a rifle through the golf course’s fence, Bradshaw said. Trump was probably between 300 and 500 yards away, he added. 

• Florida governor Ron DeSantis said in a post on X that the state would conduct its own investigation. State prosecutors were putting together warrants and a motion for pre-trial detention for the suspect, said Dave Aronberg, state attorney for Palm Beach County, adding state charges would not preclude potential federal charges.

   

Politico - Eddy Wax, Elisa Braun and Clea Caulcutt / French European Commissioner Thierry Breton resigns, attacks von der Leyen for ‘questionable governance’

• France's European Commissioner Thierry Breton resigned Monday and accused his boss Ursula von der Leyen of undermining him, calling time on his stint in Brussels and throwing the EU's power transition into disarray. 

• "A few days ago, in the very final stretch of negotiations on the composition of the future College, you asked France to withdraw my name — for personal reasons that in no instance you have discussed directly with me," Breton wrote in a letter to von der Leyen, which he posted on X.

• Tensions over France's potential portfolio in the next European Commission have been boiling over the past days between Paris and Brussels. “France is not satisfied with the portfolio scope allocated to Thierry Breton," said a senior French official from Macron’s party, before taking aim at rumors that Italy's commissioner pick would get a coveted economics job.

• The move is an explosive and unexpected twist in the EU's post-election transition of power, which has already been hamstrung by national politics and von der Leyen's attempt to form a gender-balanced College of Commissioners. So far countries including Slovenia and Romania have withdrawn male candidates under pressure from von der Leyen, replacing them with women.

   

Bloomberg - Eamon Farhat, Maciej Martewicz, Marton Eder, and Agnieszka Barteczko / Flood Death Toll Rises in Europe With More Heavy Rain Forecast

• Storm Boris has brought torrential rain to the region, with red alerts still in place for parts of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and southern Germany. Six people were confirmed to have died as flash floods hit Romania over the weekend, with hundreds evacuated. 

• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is holding an extraordinary cabinet meeting this morning, after flooding forced the evacuation of more than 3,000 people, with three fatalities reported by local media. While water levels are receding in highland areas, cities including Wroclaw are now threatened. 

• In the Czech Republic, about 12,000 people were evacuated from their homes and over 200,000 households remain without electricity. The government will meet later today to assess the flood damage and its response.

• Hungary is bracing for its worst flooding in more than a decade, with Budapest on the highest alert. More than a million sand bags will be deployed along the Danube in the capital, while roads along the river will be closed this evening. Peak waters levels are only expected later this week.

   

Al Jazeera / At least one killed, 42 injured as Russian bomb hits Kharkiv apartments

• At least one woman has been killed and 42 people injured after a Russian-guided bomb struck a multistorey apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.

•  Following the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated his call for Ukraine’s Western allies to allow the country to use weaponry on targets deep inside Russia to save lives. 

• Zelenskyy said Russia had also struck the Sumy and Donetsk regions on Sunday with guided bombs and that the Russian army carried out “at least 100 such air attacks” daily.

• Thousands of civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022. Russia denies intentionally targeting civilians..
   

Our opinion reads for today:

• Foreign Affairs - Jessica Chen Weiss / The Case Against the China Consensus
• Haaretz / Recruiting African Asylum Seekers for Gaza War Is New Despicable Low for Israel