Secretary of State Rubio; the U.S. is monitoring the earthquake disaster in Colombia.

Georgetown University professor Mehran Kamrava says US–Iran negotiations are progressing very slowly. Tehran is trying to exert economic pressure on regional neighbors—Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait—to push Washington to negotiate, while the US is simultaneously tightening economic pressure on Iran. Both sides are unwilling to initiate talks. Kamrava is skeptical that US economic pressure will succeed: although Iran faces severe economic strain, its repressive political system prioritizes regime survival over middle‑class hardship, and decades of US pressure have neither toppled the government nor materially changed Tehran’s behaviour, so the strategy’s effectiveness is uncertain.

Axios reported the Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would split the childhood measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots and require them to be administered at separate medical visits.