Day 150. All quiet on the Western Front. The problem is, the war moved farther west.

War has a way of teaching Americans geography, one chokepoint at a time. Hormuz is where Gulf oil gets out. Bab el-Mandeb—the Gate of Tears—is where much of it goes next, north through the Red Sea and Suez. Close the first, and the second becomes the detour.

While Washington and Tehran hold fire, Ansarallah (“the Houthis”) has declared a maritime embargo on Saudi-linked shipping, attacked tankers and said it struck Aramco facilities at Jizan and Yanbu. Saudi Arabia answered with strikes on Hodeidah. Ship traffic through Bab el-Mandeb fell Sunday. Saudi Arabia’s workaround for a closed Hormuz now has missiles pointed at it.

That’s the map on Day 150: one chokepoint under negotiation, another under fire. The bombing paused in Iran, but the war didn’t end. It followed the bypass. Same tab, different bar.

The halt in American strikes on Iran held through the weekend and into Monday—the calmest stretch since the bombing resumed Jul 11—and Tehran signaled it would keep its own guns quiet on Gulf shipping and regional targets for as long as Washington’s pause stays in place. Trump hosts Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and says he’ll press “very firm” for a parallel Gaza deal. U.S. officials are waving off a mediators’ proposal for a 10-day truce, and the president’s naval blockade of Iranian ports stays in force.

Gunfire between two people erupted around 6 p.m. Sunday at the Bite of Seattle food festival at Seattle Center, killing a 19-year-old man, a 44-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman and wounding four more, among them a child. Mayor Katie Wilson said police have one young person in custody and are still searching for a second shooter.

The administration set duties of 10% to 12.5% on 60 trading partners it says failed to police forced labor—a net covering nearly all U.S. imports that backfills the blanket tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February. Within hours of taking effect, the levies drew a lawsuit accusing the White House of stretching trade law past its limits.

WTI and Brent each shed close to 8% Monday, unwinding much of a near-40% July run-up, after Iran signaled it would suspend attacks while the U.S. pause holds. Drivers haven’t caught the break yet: Washington averaged $5.08 a gallon last week, second only to Hawaii, with the national mark above $4.

Stocks begin the week near where they left off—the S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,412 after a losing week led by a 2% Nasdaq slide—with the Fed’s rate decision due Wednesday and a hold the base case, though futures still price a chance of a hike. Microsoft and Meta report Wednesday, Apple and Amazon on Thursday, with AI spending the figure investors are hunting.

The lightning-sparked fire on Colville tribal land near Nespelem has burned 110,355 acres since Jul 16, with 764 personnel on the line and containment inching up from 3% over the weekend. Level 3 “Go Now” orders hold along Highway 155 as red-flag winds threaten fresh runs.

Dominic Canzone drove in four and pulled his 16th homer just inside the right-field pole in the seventh, and Randy Arozarena went back-to-back an at-bat later, as Seattle rallied to beat the Rangers 6-4 in Arlington on Sunday. Andrés Muñoz struck out the side in the ninth for his 18th save, snapping the Mariners’ four-game slide.