Day 142. Two Americans dead. One missing.

Eight nights of US strikes deep into Iran — Jask, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, Yazd. The return fire found Jordan. Iranian ballistic missiles hit Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in the eastern desert. First US deaths since March. Jordan hosts the bases by choice. That’s the deal. The deal has a price, and Friday it came due.

The president responded from his golf course in New Jersey. “Very sad thing. We hate to see it happen.” Then the pivot to nukes. Then “I couldn’t care less” about Iran walking away from the MOU. Two families just got the worst phone call of their lives and the answer came between holes.

Muscat opens today. The World Cup final kicks off at MetLife. The distance between the two has never felt wider.

Not every pour is a toast.

Friday’s ballistic-missile and drone attack on the Al-Azraq air base killed two US service members, left one missing and put four in hospitals — the American toll now stands at 16 killed and more than 430 wounded since Feb 28. CENTCOM called Sunday’s pre-dawn strikes on Sirik, Qeshm Island and Shadegan punishment for the attack and another turn of the screw on Iran’s hold over the strait; Iran’s army says it answered in Kuwait, hitting an ammunition depot at Al-Adiri camp and Patriot radar at Ali Al Salem. The main Muscat round stays on the calendar for today, with Qatari mediators shuttling through Mashhad — even as Tehran’s deputy foreign minister says Washington is “no longer implementing” the interim deal.

The Treasury Department froze US-linked assets of financier Ali Ansari, his holding company and several Iranian currency exchange houses, accusing them of diverting public wealth to Mojtaba Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guard. The designation landed the same week Tehran pressed fee-for-passage demands on strait shipping.

AAA puts the national average at $3.88 a gallon, up from $3.80 on Jul 5 and nearly a dollar above the $2.98 pre-war price. June’s deal had walked prices down from above $4.50 in May.

Kickoff is noon PT at MetLife Stadium — the teams’ first World Cup meeting since 1966, and the tournament’s first final with a halftime show. Fox and Telemundo carry it.

Lebanese state media said an Israeli drone killed a man riding a motorcycle in the southern city on Friday — the latest strike under a truce that has held in name through a war Lebanese authorities say killed more than 4,300 people.

Seattle, Bellevue, Everett and Tacoma sit under an advisory through Wednesday night, with highs 15-20 degrees above normal and mid-90s possible south of Olympia before a Thursday front could bring the first measurable rain since Jun 9.

Julio Rodríguez lifted the winning run home in the 10th as Seattle answered Friday’s shutout with a 4-3 walk-off. The series wraps Sunday afternoon at T-Mobile.