April 9th, 2026

• World leaders hail Iran truce as stocks rally, oil prices tumble
• Oil Plunges Below $95, Dow Rises 1,000 Points on Ceasefire
• Trump Hails 'Golden Age of the Middle East', Suggests U.S. Can Make 'Big Money' at Strait of Hormuz
• Trump says he believes China got Iran to come to the negotiating table - Iranian officials cited by NYT also say Beijing stepped in at last minute amid concern of economic fallout, as deadline loomed for Trump's threats to strike crucial infrastructure
• China Celebrates Itself for 'Constructive Role' in Iran Ceasefire - After Its 'Peace Plan' Totally Ignored
• Behind the Scenes: Mojtaba Khamenei Reportedly Pushed Iran into U.S. Ceasefire Deal as Trump's Deadline Hit
• Trump Says He Withheld Iran Strike Intel from Germany Because 'They Would Have Leaked It'
• Gen Jack Keane 'skeptical' that Iran ceasefire will hold, warns Tehran will 'delay and obfuscate'
• Trump threatens to renew war if Iran doesn't comply with 'real agreement,' will keep forces in region
• Trump threatens 'bigger, and better, and stronger' military response if Iran doesn't comply with deal - or else 'shootin' starts'
• Levin: 'This Thing's Not Over' - 'It's Not that I'm a Warmonger, It's that They're a Warmonger'
• GOP Rep. Bacon: We Got 'Significant' Wins, But Iran Will Try to Rebuild and Will Be Threat Down the Road
• Krishnamoorthi: I Fear Trump Might 'Provoke' Iran to Commit Terrorism on U.S. Soil
• Vance: U.S. Approaching Iran Negotiations With 'Good Faith', But Mindful of Wreckers Within Iranian Hierarchy
• Van Hollen: 'Hard for the Iranians to Be Able to Trust' U.S. Negotiators Because We Bombed Them During Talks
• 'In no way do we trust America': Iranians react to two-week ceasefire - Sudden pause in destructive war launched by US and Israel prompts mixed feelings in Tehran
• 'Everything will be worse': Ceasefire leaves some Iranians fearful of greater crackdown - 'Ending in a situation where the Islamic Republic feels victorious isn't really a good thing,' says one Tehran resident as Gulf locals express fear of a return to hostilities
• Truce Leaves Questions Over Fate of Iran's Enriched Uranium - President Trump has vowed to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. On Wednesday, he posted that the United States would work with Iran to dig up the "Nuclear 'Dust.'"
• Trump claims Iran won't enrich uranium, will give up uranium, while US lifts sanctions - No indication Tehran accepted such terms, as US president threatens tariffs, touts progress; Pentagon claims Iranian military decimated, despite ongoing missile, drone attacks
• Netanyahu says 'finger on trigger' to resume war any time; opposition accuses him of strategic debacle - PM insists Israel wasn't caught off-guard by truce, says Iran's enriched uranium will be removed 'by agreement or through resumed fighting'
• Netanyahu backs Iran truce; opposition blames him for worst-ever 'diplomatic disaster'
• Commentary: Netanyahu left with vague promises, no clear victories after another war ends without a decisive win
• Yair Lapid: 'Netanyahu led us into a strategic debacle,' sold lies to the Americans - Full text of opposition leader's televised address denouncing PM for having 'deceived the citizens of Israel, deceived his partners' in Iran war, dragging Israel 'from one disaster to the next'
• Schumer blasts Trump's Iran war as failure, moves to rein in his war powers amid ceasefire
• Schumer says Senate will attempt next Iran War Powers resolution vote next week - The war powers resolution would require President Donald Trump to get permission from Congress in order to use military force on Iran. The Senate last tried to pass the resolution last month amid the military conflict in the Middle East
• Democrats are using the I-word again - Trump's threat to destroy Iran prompts impeachment talk
• Ralph Nader Urges Bush, Obama to Back Trump Impeachment After Previously Calling Both War Criminals
• Trump announces two-week ceasefire - But Iran fires multiple salvos of missiles at Israel throughout the night
• Iranian Drones Bombard Kuwait's Oil Facilities, Power Plants, and Desalination Plants Just Hours After the Ceasefire Announcement
• 'Fragile truce' takes hold despite Iranian attacks on Kuwait & UAE amid near-universal praise for US-Israel-Iran ceasefire
• Despite ceasefire, Iran claims refinery hit, launches wave of attacks against UAE, Kuwait
• Saudi oil pipeline hit by drone strike, damage limited
• Iranian media claims Strait of Hormuz is closed again; maritime data shows oil tanker has been turned away
• Reports: Iran Blocks Traffic in Strait of Hormuz over Israeli Strikes in Lebanon
• White House warns Iran to keep Strait of Hormuz open, claims reports of closure 'unacceptable'
• Iran demands $1 per barrel of oil passing through Strait of Hormuz, paid in crypto
• Trump says he's considering 'joint venture' with Iran for Strait of Hormuz tolls
• UAE Air Force Attacks Iran's Oil Facilities: Tehran Strikes Back
• 'Industrial Cardiac Arrest' Looming? How Iran War Is Darkening The Gulf's Petrochemical Arc
• Iran threatens to cancel ceasefire if Israeli strikes against Hezbollah continue, amid general confusion over truce deal's terms - US denies Iranian 10-point proposal is the basis for ceasefire negotiations
• IDF launches largest airstrikes yet on Hezbollah; Trump: Iran truce doesn't cover Lebanon
• Iran threatens to end ceasefire over Hezbollah's exclusion from truce deal
• JD Vance: It Would Be 'Dumb' of Iran to End Negotiations over Lebanon, Which Was Never Part of Ceasefire
• Israel will rein in attacks on Lebanon, says Vance
• Scenes of devastation after Israel bombs Lebanon 100 times in 10 minutes
• Lebanese PM declares day of mourning after 'unprecedented' wave of IDF strikes
• Report: Hungary offered Iran intel on Hezbollah pager attack by Israel - Transcript of call two weeks after 2024 operation in Lebanon prompts concern among Western officials over Budapest's ties to Islamic Republic, despite outward pro-Israel stance
• Gunfire erupts near Israeli consulate in Istanbul; attackers neutralized, motives unclear
• Turkey detains 10 suspects over Istanbul gun attack outside Israeli consulate
• Palestinian killed by Israeli fire amid series of reported West Bank settler attacks
• NATO Sec'y General: 'Some' in NATO Failed During Iran War, 'Large Majority' of Europe Didn't
• Bombshell: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War - Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy - While Others Rewarded
• UK's NATO show of force ends with docked destroyer in Mediterranean after 'technical' issue
• Trump Says His Rage Against NATO 'Began With Greenland'
• JD Vance Confronted With Report the Pentagon Allegedly Threatened Vatican with Military Force
• For the Second Consecutive Day, North Korea's 'Rocket Man' Kim Jong Un Fires Multiple Short-Range Ballistic Missiles Into the East Sea
• Powder Keg Europe: Russian Warship Escorts Sanctioned Tankers Across the English Channel, In Complete Defiance of Starmer's Threats and the Royal Navy
• 'SCANDALOUS': VP Vance Torches Zelensky's Threats Against Orban, Says Ukraine Is Using Energy Supplies To Try To Influence Hungarian Elections
• FBI Arrests Former Army Special Operations Employee For Leaking Classified National Defense Information to Media
• Joe Rogan Argues Trump Launched Iran War to Distract From Epstein Files
• Pam Bondi defies House subpoena over Epstein files
• Top economist Mark Zandi says the indicator that has called every recession since WWII just signaled we're already in one
• JD Vance's Task Force Uncovers $6 Billion in Potential Fraud, Begins Taking Action: Report
• Poll: Voters Tie Government Fraud to Rising Cost of Living as Trump Admin Expands 'War on Fraud'
• California Supreme Court Orders "Rogue" Sheriff To Pause Election Fraud Probe
• California Supreme Court Orders Sheriff Bianco to Pause His Massive Election Fraud Investigation and Preserve 650,000 Ballots He Seized
• Fascist Colorado Democrat Says He is 'Creating Lists' of People in the Trump Administration to 'Hold Accountable' in the Future
• Massive hack exposes thousands of sensitive LAPD records, report says
• Anthropic's 'Claude Mythos' model sparks fear of AI doomsday if released to public: 'Weapons we can't even envision'
• Anthropic Says Its 'Mythos' AI Model Broke Containment, Bragged About It to Developers
• Anthropic withholds release of 'most powerful' AI model due to safety concerns - The model reportedly demonstrated the ability to bypass restrictions placed on it during controlled testing
• ChatGPT to be sued over Florida State U gunman's alleged use of platform to plan shooting
• Daylight fireball seen from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Sovetabad, Azerbaijan
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Nabire, Indonesia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near western Indian-Antarctic Ridge
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Kirakira, Solomon Islands
• Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 26,000ft
• Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 22,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 21,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 14,000ft
• Kanlaon volcano in the Philippines erupts to 12,000ft
• Dukono volcano in Indonesia erupts to 10,000ft
• Tropical Cyclone Vaianu expected to bring damaging winds and heavy rain to New Zealand this weekend
• Severe Tropical Cyclone Maila tracks toward Papua New Guinea and Queensland, Australia
• Hawaii braces for another deluge on the heels of record-breaking rain
• Hawaii braces for inches of torrential rain and flash flooding just weeks after life-threatening Kona lows
• The US just experienced its hottest March on record - More than 12,000 daily high temperature records were broken in March, with the national temperature exceeding the record for the month
• For Minnesota, Climate Obsession Is Just Another Fiscal Disaster
• The Solar Myth: High Oil Prices Never Trigger a Real Shift
• Armed Suspect Storms Houston Church With Loaded Gun and 100 Rounds - Stopped Seconds Before Potential Massacre
• Christians Refute Nigerian Army Claim of Rescuing Easter Hostages
• Knife-Wielding Ohio Man Arrested For Threatening to Kill Family in the "Name of Allah" on Easter Sunday
• Moroccan Man Arrested After Ax Attack on Three Neighbors in Granada, Spain: "All Christians Must Die"
• Man charged after allegedly threatening to kill Ohio dad 'in the name of Allah' in terrifying video encounter - Suspect caught on camera kneeling and praying in the family's driveway before knocking on their door
• Iowa Democrat Pastor Running for Congress: 9/11 Taught Me About 'Anti-Muslim Bigotry'
• Nigel Farage's Reform UK Vows to Block Visas From Countries Demanding Slavery Reparations
• Jasveen Sangha, 'Ketamine Queen,' Drug Dealer Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison in Connection with Matthew Perry's Death
• Sheild of the Americas: Ecuador's Noboa Says US Troops Are Welcome To Help Fight Drug Cartels
• ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
• Michigan Democrat Sen candidate Abdul El-Sayed calls for abolishing ICE, says the 'upper class' is the 'enemy'
• Niece of Slain Terrorist Qasem Soleimani BEGS Ex-Boyfriend to Help Her "ESCAPE" Texas ICE Detention - He Fires Back: "She Scares Me!"
• Wave of alleged migrant murders ignites fury across US as officials warn of more carnage, crackdown needed
• Haitian illegal alien charged with bludgeoning Florida mom to death with hammer in gas station attack
• Mentally Ill Homeless Repeat Offender DeCarlos Brown Jr. Ruled 'Incompetent to Stand Trial' for Brutal Stabbing of Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska
• Wisconsin couple allegedly starved six children for years, forcing them to eat mold, bugs and dog food
• South Carolina pastor, wife arrested after alleged sexual, physical abuse of foster children
• Disgraced Democrat NC Lawmaker Hit With New Eight Child Sex Charges - May Face Life In Prison After Allegedly Meeting Minor on 'Grindr'
• Top school district slapped with complaint alleging 'elaborate system' to keep kids' gender transitions secret - One of largest districts in country slammed for allegedly designing plan to 'keep parents in the dark'
• USC Bans Men from Parts of Gyms to Make Women, Non-Binary Students Feel Comfortable
• MS NOW tries to cancel Pete Hegseth for saying 'we leave no man behind' because he didn't mention women - Instead of praising the daring US military operation, O'Donnell spent a portion of his segment denouncing Hegseth as offensive to women
• Spain's Socialist Govt. Approves Constitutional Reform to 'Safeguard' Abortion
• Scientists Engineer "Tumor-Eating" Bacteria That Devour Cancer From Within
• Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A retreats from decade-old egg pledge as bird flu hits supply - Atlanta-based fast-food chain says its 2026 cage-free commitment is in doubt
• RFK Jr.: Cuba's Communists Running Massive Healthcare Fraud Scheme in Florida