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Thursday, April 09, 2026

European leaders demanded for Lebanon to be included in the U.S.-Iran cease-fire deal, intensifying their calls on Thursday after Israel launched a wave of attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon that killed more than 200 people.


Israel pounded Lebanon with its heaviest strikes yet on Wednesday, killing hundreds of people and drawing a threat of retaliation from Iran, which suggested it would be "unreasonable" to proceed with talks to forge a permanent peace deal with the United States. The warning from Iran's lead negotiator, parliament speaker Mohammed Bager Qalibaf, laid bare the continued volatility in the region following Tuesday's ceasefire announcement by President Donald Trump. The two sides have laid out sharply contrasting agendas for peace talks set to start on Saturday, but it was unclear whether the two-week ceasefire would hold until then.


A growing chorus of disaffected Trump supporters is sounding off in the replies to his posts on the social media platform he founded.


Wednesday, April 08, 2026

In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here's the inside story of how he made the fateful decision. read more


President Trump's new homeland security secretary has suggested he will withdraw customs officers from the airports of Democrat-run "sanctuary cities" that protect undocumented migrants. read more


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