Plus: Iran deal scoop | Monday, June 02, 2025
| | | | | | | PRESENTED BY PHRMA | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Jun 02, 2025 | | Good Monday afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 432 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Suspect charged with hate crime | | | | Law enforcement officials in Boulder today. Photo: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images The suspect in yesterday's attack in Boulder, Colo., was charged with a federal hate crime, and the attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism, authorities said. - Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, yelled "Free Palestine!" as he threw Molotov cocktails into a crowd of people peacefully demonstrating for the release of Israeli hostages, according to an FBI affidavit.
- Authorities said Soliman told them after he was arrested that he had been planning the attack for a year. The demonstration he targeted was a weekly event organized by a group called Run for Their Lives.
- Eight people were hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.
President Trump blamed former President Biden for Soliman's presence in the country. - "He came in through Biden's ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under 'TRUMP' Policy," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
- Soliman entered the U.S. in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired in February 2023, the Department of Homeland Security said.
The latest. |     | | | | | | 2. ☢️ Controversial offer in U.S.-Iran nuke deal | | | | Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen on May 20. Photo: Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images The U.S. proposed allowing Iran to continue with limited, low-level uranium enrichment as part of a new nuclear deal, Axios' Barak Ravid scoops. - Why it matters: The proposal seems to offer a clearer path to a deal, but contradicts U.S. officials' public statements and risks backlash from hardline conservatives in Washington as well as from Israel.
🇮🇷 Iran has consistently said it won't sign any deal that bans enrichment for civilian purposes — a red line that is irreconcilable with the U.S. public posture. - White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have said publicly that the U.S. will not allow Iran to enrich uranium, and will demand the full dismantlement of Iran's nuclear facilities.
📑 The secret proposal shows far more flexibility on both points. | | | | | | | | A MESSAGE FROM PHRMA | | It's time to crack down on middlemen and foreign free riders | | |  | | | | Americans foot the bill for research and development of medicines — while other countries don't pay their fair share. The solution: To lower drug costs, we need to end foreign free riding and address the real reasons Americans pay more: PBMs and 340B hospital markups driving up prices. See how. | | | | | | 3. Catch me up | | | | Mount Etna erupts today near Catania, Italy. Photo: Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images - 🌋 Tourists fled from Italy's Mt. Etna today as it suddenly began erupting, CNN reports. It's one of the world's most active volcanoes, but this seems to be the biggest eruption since 2014.
- 📨 The Supreme Court agreed to take up a conservative challenge to mail-in voting. The justices will hear the case in their next term. Go deeper.
- 🤖 Meta wants to offer advertisers the ability to create and target their ads entirely using AI, The Wall Street Journal reports.
| | | | | | | | 4. 🌼 1 for the road | | | | Photo: Barbara Gindl/AFP via Getty Images A sculpture of cats, made from daffodils, floats on the water yesterday during the annual Daffodil Festival in Altaussee, Austria. | | | | | | | | A MESSAGE FROM PHRMA | | Let's address the real reasons Americans pay more for medicines | | |  | | | | What you need to know: America is the only country where: - 340B hospitals mark up medicines.
- PBM middlemen charge rebates and fees.
- Foreign countries free ride off U.S. investment.
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