Saudi Arabia’s crown prince visits the White House for the first time since ordering the killing of a journalist. The House is set to vote to compel the Justice Department to release all the Epstein files. And, taps are running dry in Tehran as a water crisis forces Iran to consider evacuating its capital.

US and Israeli officials say that if this week’s talks achieve a breakthrough, negotiations will move into a direct trilateral channel involving the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, with the F-35 sale, the defense pact, and normalization steps all linked in a single framework.