Luke Vargas

And we'll get the latest on diplomatic efforts to end the war in Iran.

Those stories and more after the break.

The U.S.

has sent Iran a 15-point plan to end the war, which calls on Tehran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, along with a previous list of Trump administration demands.

Journal Middle East correspondent Benoit Faucon has the details.

Mediators from Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan are pushing to arrange a meeting between U.S.

and Iranian officials tomorrow in the hopes of ending the war in the next 48 hours.

But Benoit says that Gulf states are growing alarmed by Trump's eagerness to do a deal.

The Pentagon is also planning to deploy around 3,000 American soldiers to the Middle East to support operations against Iran, though officials cautioned that a decision to put boots on the ground in Iran hasn't been made.

A federal judge in California has said the U.S.

government's move to ban Anthropic appeared to be a punishment for making its contract dispute with the Pentagon public.

U.S.

District Judge Rita Lynn said that would be a violation of the First Amendment and that the Trump administration's actions didn't align with its stated national security concerns.

Anthropic sued the U.S.

government to halt its designation as a supply chain risk after the company took issue with the potential of its models being used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

Lynn asked for more evidence before making her decision on Anthropic's request for an injunction.

And U.S.

lawmakers are expanding their scrutiny of private equity to include its influence over child care.

Yesterday, Oregon Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley announced an investigation into whether two firms are putting their own profits ahead of the safety and welfare of children at the facilities they control.

Swiss firm Partners Group declined to comment, and New York-based American Securities didn't reply to a request for comment.