Today’s edition of quick hits.
* Hours after Trump said the deal wasn’t final, he signed it in the same place where Germany surrendered at the end of World War I: “President Donald Trump has digitally signed the memorandum of understanding with Iran while at dinner in Versailles with French President Emmanuel Macron, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced Wednesday. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also digitally signed the memo, according to Sharif.”
* Dramatic strikes in the Russian capital: “After weeks of intensifying Russian bombing of Kyiv, Ukraine hammered Moscow with a swarm of drone strikes in what appeared to be the largest attack on the capital since President Vladimir Putin plunged the region into full-scale war in February 2022.”
* ICE bought 11 warehouses to detain human beings, but “in a major turnabout, the agency is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.”
* An unrelated, but also important, reversal: “The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill.”
* Quite an event in Chicago: “After more than a decade of planning and construction, the $850 million Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago hosted its grand opening ceremony today. Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama delivered speeches that urged Americans to embrace hope. Three other former presidents — Joe Biden, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — attended. (President Donald Trump was not invited.)”