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The U.S. military carried out a wave of airstrikes in Iran over the weekend after announcing that a third U.S. service member had been killed in military operations since Friday. U.S. Central Command said two died in an Iranian missile and drone attack in Jordan, while the remains of an unidentified person were recovered at the same site. The U.S. has now bombed Iran for nine consecutive nights.

• 🎧 Jordan, a small but strategically important U.S. security partner, doesn’t want to be involved in the conflict, NPR’s Jane Arraf tells Up First. The country hosts a large but low-profile U.S. military presence and also has a peace treaty with Israel. On Sunday, the U.S. Embassy warned of threats to the Aqaba tourist resort. Jordan denied Aqaba had been threatened, but Iranian missiles struck its airport shortly afterward. Iran said it hit U.S. transport and command aircraft.

The House has one week before lawmakers leave for the August recess. During that time, House Speaker Mike Johnson is aiming to secure more defense funding, advance the president’s election-integrity bill, implement a stock-trading ban for lawmakers and extend federal funding beyond the November election.

• 🎧 With a slim majority, a dozen or so Republicans are likely reluctant to support additional funding for an expanding war effort through a reconciliation bill without new ways to pay for it, NPR’s Eric McDaniel says. President Trump has one main focus he wants from Congress: passing his SAVE America Act election integrity bill. House Republicans are trying to attach the bill to unrelated legislation to pressure the Senate to pass it. But that strategy is unlikely to succeed because the bill would need 60 votes in the Senate, and there are only 53 Republicans. Democrats don’t support the bill.

Andy Burnham becomes the new prime minister of the United Kingdom today, the country’s seventh leader in a decade. He succeeds Keir Starmer and is expected to face some of the same challenges that impacted Starmer, including low economic growth, high energy prices and pressure to ramp up defense spending.

• 🎧 Burnham says he intends to build on Starmer’s work. They both share roughly the same politics as they come from the same party, NPR’s Lauren Frayer says. Starmer struggled to manage relations with Trump, who soured on him after Starmer took a strong stance on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Starmer also criticized other things related to Trump, including immigration. Now, Burnham faces the challenge of navigating that relationship.