Today's five.

Nominating a housing official to run the nation's intelligence apparatus did not, it turns out, go over well. After bipartisan pushback on the Bill Pulte pick, Trump reversed course and nominated former SEC Chair Jay Clayton — currently U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — as director of national intelligence. Clayton replaces Tulsi Gabbard, who stepped down after her husband's cancer diagnosis. Bloomberg led with the Pulte backlash as the inciting event; Straight Arrow noted Clayton is "very Highly Respected," per Trump's own Truth Social post. The intelligence community will now be led by a securities regulator. Progress looks different every day.

Calling off airstrikes and announcing a peace deal hours later is a bold Thursday, even by recent standards. Trump said a deal with Iran could be signed within days — his understanding, he noted, being that the supreme leader had approved it. Iranian officials have not confirmed this. Oil prices dropped on the news, which is markets doing what markets do when war briefly seems less inevitable. Bloomberg led with crude. NBC led with the timeline. Foreign Policy led with the gap between what Washington is saying and what Tehran is saying. That gap has been there before.

The theory that phones are making young people miserable keeps getting harder to argue with. Writer Noah Smith puts it cleanly: online interaction is missing some essential emotional nutrient that humans evolved to get from physical proximity — the context, the touch, the simple fact of another body in the room. Not the content of a hug, but the hug. A friend's highlight reel can't tell you their life is also a mess, so your brain concludes yours is worse. The excerpt doesn't name a fix. It doesn't need to. The diagnosis lands fine on its own.

Running to Chicago after a hit-and-run is a choice that tends to not work out. Artiom Echiusciu was arrested there following a May 20 incident in Hollywood, Florida, where the collision left a police officer hospitalized. The details on how Chicago authorities located him haven't been released, but "fled to another state" is the kind of detail that generally does not help someone's case in court. Only one outlet covered this, so there's no competing framing to note — just a man, a car, an injured officer, and a multistate arrest.

Handing your phone to a school secretary in exchange for a claim ticket is a system so retro it almost circles back to being cool. Brewer High School in Florida is running what amounts to a live pilot program for the state's incoming phone ban — students drop devices at the office, get a numbered stub, retrieve them later. The logistics work. Whether students actually hate it or have quietly accepted it is the more interesting question nobody's fully answered yet. Florida is about to find out at scale.