Day 151. The Pentagon’s casualty count didn’t go down. It moved sideways.

Four soldiers killed after fighting resumed in July disappeared from the Operation Epic Fury total, then reappeared under a new heading: “Overseas Operations.” The government now asks the public to consult two ledgers to count the dead from one war.

Before receiving their remains at Dover, President Trump said all four had told him, “We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.” No public evidence has been offered that all four said it. Respect means letting fallen soldiers keep their own voices. It also means keeping their names in the record of the war that killed them.

July 7—the starting date for the new casualty category—is also the date the administration uses to argue that a new conflict began and a new War Powers clock started. The accounting and the legal theory now share a calendar.

At the bar, a floater is poured as a separate layer. It’s still part of the drink. Call “Overseas Operations” the Bacardi 151 floater: different line, same glass, full proof.

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives first—his first sit-down with Trump since the two opened the Iran war in February—with the pause on U.S. strikes holding into a new week and Gaza, Lebanon and a widening Abraham Accords crowding the agenda. Volodymyr Zelensky follows in the afternoon, pressing for anti-ballistic defenses and joint Patriot production as Russia leans harder on Ukraine’s cities from the air. Two wars, two allies, one Oval Office schedule.

Nasdaq 100 futures fell about 1% Tuesday as a slide in Korean memory makers revived worry over AI “circular financing,” even after the Dow closed at 52,210 on Monday. Microsoft and Meta report Wednesday and Apple and Amazon Thursday, with the Fed expected to hold rates in between.

Under 10 commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, against roughly 100 on a normal prewar day, while WTI shed more than 6% to about $82 on the U.S.–Iran pause. Oman’s foreign minister worked the phones with Tehran, Riyadh, Doha, Kuwait and Cairo, pressing a political track Iran still says it hasn’t joined.

The South Carolina Republican, who died Jul 11 at 71 of an aortic dissection, is honored at the Capitol on Tuesday before a service at Washington National Cathedral, with burial rites in Columbia and Pickens County on Wednesday. Zelensky is among those paying respects during his Washington visit.

The King County medical examiner identified the dead as Junior Cee Niko Semo, 19, Carlos Israel Sanchez Villalba, 44, and Ashley Whitehead, 56, killed when two people traded gunfire in the Seattle Center crowd Sunday evening. Police are holding a 15-year-old and still hunting a second shooter; four others were wounded, among them a toddler.

The lightning fire on the Colville reservation grew more than 20,000 acres over a red-flag weekend to about 124,000, even as crews held containment at 15%. Level 3 orders now run 30 miles along State Route 21, from South Empire Creek to South Nanamkin Creek Road.

Joc Pederson homered twice and drove in four as Texas took George Kirby deep four times in the first three innings, beating the Mariners 7–3 on Monday to claim three of four and stretch its AL West lead to 2½ games. Seattle heads into the trade deadline unsure whether to buy or sell.

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