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WASHINGTONPOST (Dan Diamond) - Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool worry preservationists, locals

Some warned that the president’s blue-tinted resurfacing would distort the experience for visitors and make the national symbol resemble a “large lap pool.”

NPR (Willem Marx) - Pope Leo reiterates opposition to death penalty on same day U.S. approves firing squads

Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's teaching that the death penalty is "inadmissible," in a video message released hours after the Justice Department said it would allow firing squads for federal executions.

NYTIMES (Emma Goldberg) - They Survived Torture. Why Is the Program That Helped Them Closing?

Some Bellevue Hospital officials feared having to disclose patients’ immigration status. They will get care elsewhere at the hospital, administrators say.

AXIOS (Barak Ravid) - Trump cancels envoys' trip to Pakistan for Iran talks

President Trump has canceled the trip by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad due to the Iranian position in peace negotiations, he told Axios. The big picture: "I see no point of sending them on an 18-hour flight in the current situation [of the negotiations]. It's too long. We can do it just as well by telephone. The Iranians can call us if they want. We are not gonna travel just to sit there," the president said. - Asked whether it means he is going to resume the war Trump said: "No. It doesn't mean that. We haven't thought about it yet." - "We have all the cards. We are not going to go there to sit around talking about nothing." This is breaking news.

NPR (Jewel Bright) - Mali hit by wave of coordinated attacks from armed groups

Gunfire and explosions have rocked Mali's capital Bamako and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated attacks in years, as armed groups, including jihadist insurgents and separatist rebels exploit worsening insecurity in the Sahel region.