IRAN ADMITS DAMAGE TO NUCLEAR SITE

A fire at Iran’s main nuclear fuel enrichment site caused significant damage, setting back the country’s nuclear program by months, the government acknowledged on Sunday, after initially saying the destruction was minor.

A Middle Eastern intelligence official with knowledge of the episode said Israel was responsible for the attack on the Natanz nuclear complex on Thursday, using a powerful bomb. A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard who was briefed on the matter also said an explosive was used. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity when discussing sensitive intelligence and operational topics.

Seattle protester dies after being struck by car. One of two people who were seriously injured Saturday after a car drove into a protest on a closed section of Interstate 5 in Seattle has died, authorities said Sunday.

Summer Taylor, 24, of Seattle died Saturday night at Harborview Medical Center, a UW Medicine spokeswoman said. The other injured protester, Diaz Love, 32, of Portland, Ore., was hospitalized in serious condition, the spokeswoman said. Both had livestreamed the protest before they were injured, The Seattle Times reported.

Atlantic Coast Pipeline canceled as delays and costs mount. Two of the nation’s largest utility companies announced Sunday that they had canceled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would have carried natural gas across the Appalachian Trail, as delays and rising costs threatened the project’s viability.

Duke Energy and Dominion Energy said lawsuits, mainly from environmentalists aimed at blocking the project, had increased costs to as much as $8 billion from about $4.5 billion to $5 billion when it was first announced in 2014. The utilities said they had begun developing the project “in response to a lack of energy supply and delivery diversification for millions of families, businesses, schools and national defense installations across North Carolina and Virginia.”

The two energy companies won a victory last month in the Supreme Court over a permit from the U.S. Forest Service but said “recent developments have created an unacceptable layer of uncertainty and anticipated delays” for the pipeline.