Today's five.

Negotiating a peace deal while simultaneously blowing up each other's boats is a very specific kind of diplomacy. Trump spent the weekend at the White House — skipping his son's wedding — insisting a deal was imminent. Iran's foreign ministry spent Monday clarifying that "consensus on many issues" is not the same thing as a deal. Both statements are technically true. The reported framework involves a 60-day ceasefire extension, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and further nuclear talks. Bloomberg noted oil dropped on deal optimism; NPR led with the airstrikes. Those two headlines are describing the same morning.

Markets moved before the deal existed, which is a very Wall Street way to handle a war. Oil dropped more than 6% Monday on reports that the U.S. and Iran are closing in on an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — a deal that, as of Monday, both sides were actively hedging. Trump called negotiations "proceeding nicely" on Truth Social while simultaneously threatening to resume fighting "bigger and stronger." Iranian officials flagged unresolved disagreements. The Baltimore Banner noted there's still plenty we don't know. S&P 500 futures barely moved. Apparently the stock market reads more carefully than the oil market.

Both parties used Memorial Day to attack each other and then act offended that the other party used Memorial Day to attack them. Trump posted "Happy Memorial Day" to Truth Social and then spent three paragraphs on "Dumocrats" and "RHINOS" — the holiday sentiment arriving like a garnish on a plate of grievances. The DNC posted an image of 13 fallen service members to attack Trump, got widely ridiculed, and deleted it. Independent Journal Review covered Trump's post neutrally; AlterNet led with the social media backlash; The Daily Wire led with the DNC deletion. Everyone had a point. Nobody looked great.

Every year, Memorial Day arrives as a three-day weekend first and a solemn reckoning second, and the order matters. Trump laid a wreath at Arlington's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — the ritual every president performs — while also finding time to post a message that took a swipe at critics, because that's where we are. NewsNation covered the remarks. The Hill covered the ceremony live. Local outlets, like Cleveland.com, did what local outlets do best: put a name and a face to the abstraction. Tom Keeling, Strongsville. A fallen Marine. That's the whole point of the day, technically.

Getting buried alive in volcanic sand at 19 and still making it to 101 is either the best argument for luck or the most Marine thing that's ever happened. David Greene died April 17 in Waterloo — 81 years after an artillery blast on Iwo Jima covered him and a fellow Marine in black Pacific sand on the first day of one of the deadliest battles in American history. He almost didn't turn 20. He turned 101. Both outlets ran the same story, same headline, because some stories don't need a spin.