NEW YORK (AP) – The Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday as he faced new questions about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved.

NEW YORK (AP) – A shooting at a Fourth of July cookout near New York’s Coney Island beach wounded eight people, including four children, police said.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of mourners began a dayslong funeral Saturday for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, beating their chests in sorrow before the glass case containing his flag-draped coffin in Tehran and calling for revenge against Israel and the United States.

NEW YORK (AP) – A White House report brands the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History, as radical activists who cannot be trusted, indicating that President Donald Trump may be preparing to install his own team.

CAIRO (AP) – A cargo ship came under attack Sunday off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, the British military said, the latest maritime attack off the conflict-torn Arab country.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – The lawyer for a prominent Palestinian doctor who was seized by Israeli forces 18 months ago said his client has been abused in captivity and is in critical condition, according to the human rights group representing him.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Indonesians are trying to stop a major German cement producer from building a mine and factory under a unique supply chain law that adds to a growing number of cases legal experts say may influence European businesses in Asia.