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11:50 AM ET, April 7, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Warns Iran ‘Whole Civilization Will Die’  —  President Trump has given a deadline of 8 p.m. ET for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.  The U.S. conducted more than 50 strikes on military targets on Iran's Kharg Island.  —  President Trump threatened to wipe out the entirety …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Other Thing Trump's Dying to Break  —  Today, the president tells us, is judgment day in Iran.  “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump posted this morning.  “I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.”  If his threats are to be believed …
Politico:
Pentagon's new plans in Iran give Trump a way out of war crime accusations … Trump on Monday threatened a situation “where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12:00 tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again.”
NBC News:
Live updates: U.S. strikes Kharg Island, official says; Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ if Iran doesn't make a deal  —  The president has threatened massive U.S. attacks on civilian infrastructure and brushed off concerns about possible war crimes ahead of his 8 p.m. ET deadline.
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump says ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ ahead of deadline for Iran  —  Trump's threat is among his most extreme rhetoric toward Iran since the war started.  —  President Donald Trump threatened in a Truth Social post Tuesday that “a whole civilization will die tonight” …
Washington Post:
U.S. strikes Iran's Kharg Island as Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’  —  The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don't comply.  —  Twelve hours before his deadline …
Discussion: NBC News, Bloomberg and NewsMax.com
Lara Seligman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Strikes More Than 50 Military Targets on Kharg Island  —  The U.S. conducted strikes on military targets on Kharg Island early Tuesday, according to two U.S. officials, ahead of President Trump's deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.  —  The U.S. struck more than 50 targets …
Axios:
Trump's tipping point: Destroy Iran's infrastructure or give talks a chance  —  President Trump faces a momentous decision on a tight timeline: carry out his threat to obliterate Iran's infrastructure beginning at 8pm ET, or push his own deadline again to give negotiations a chance.
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Trump: A Real Commander-in-Chief  —  Two pilots rescued from Iran.  —  hey are not going to have a nuclear weapon ... We're never going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon.  So spoke President Donald Trump at a Monday presser after it was revealed that the United States military had rescued two downed American soldiers.
Discussion: Middle East Monitor
Ines Ferré / Yahoo Finance:
US gas prices risk topping $5 per gallon if Strait of Hormuz stays closed: JPMorgan
Associated Press:
Iran calls for human chains to protect power plants as Trump's deadline nears
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump threatens ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ ahead of Iran deadline
New York Times:
Iran's 10-Point Proposal Demands an End to Attacks and Sanctions
Sudiksha Kochi / The Hill:
GOP patience with Iran operation growing thinner as Trump escalates tensions
Discussion: NewsMax.com and MS NOW
Ashley Oliver / Fox News:
White House unleashes on Stacey Abrams in latest clash over Trump's election order
Discussion: IJR, New York Times and The Hill
George Grylls / The Times:
The man who watches Trump all day, every day  —  Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences.  He says it's ‘pretty bleak’  —  The psychological demands of Aaron Rupar's work are immense.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
Jakub Krupa / The Guardian:
Vance accuses EU of ‘foreign interference’ in upcoming Hungarian election while endorsing Orbán - Europe live  —  US vice-president claims ‘the bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary’  —  JD Vance criticises alleged EU interference in Hungarian elections …
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Paul Krugman:
Our Darkest Hour  —  The civilization we destroy may be our own  —  This is America's darkest hour.  —  Hi, Paul Krugman with an update Tuesday morning.  Earlier today, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, … Not going to be a problem if we ever do get the war crimes trial that all of this deserves.
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
How the media should cover this deranged president  —  Three suggestions—with illustrations—to counter the rampant ‘sane-washing’  —  The moment I saw Trump's crazy and dangerous Truth Social post on the morning of Easter Sunday, I could imagine the freakout in newsrooms across the country.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
What to Watch in the Election to Succeed Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia  —  Clay Fuller, a Republican allied with President Trump, will face Shawn Harris, a Democrat, in the election to fill the remainder of Ms. Greene's term after her resignation from Congress.
Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
This Prosecutor Was Floundering.  Now He's a Go-To Guy at Trump's DOJ.  —  After Pam Bondi's ouster, the administration will likely lean even more heavily on lawyers like Robert Keenan  —  In a federal courthouse in Los Angeles last spring, Judge Otis Wright II, a no-nonsense former Marine …
Victor Nava / New York Post:
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin plans to ‘take a hard look’ at international airports in sanctuary cities  —  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin suggested Monday that the Trump administration could take action against international airports in sanctuary cities that refuse …
Wall Street Journal:
Some Republicans Set Their Own Deadline on Iran War.  It's Getting Close.  —  Lawmakers point to law requiring approval by Congress after 60 days of fighting, as Trump mulls major escalation  —  WASHINGTON—As President Trump threatens a major escalation in Iran by a Tuesday night deadline …
Discussion: Newsweek
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
Wisconsin town revolts against a Trump-backed data center project … The vote comes as companies descend on Middle America to build the data centers, which are major priorities for the White House and the U.S. tech sector but the object of scorn for roughly 3 in 10 U.S. voters who …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
“It's really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Donald J. Trump.  Rupar explained that political journalists are trained to think, “'OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?'
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Allies Fear They Are Tied to an Erratic U.S. and Now Have Nowhere to Turn  —  Friendly countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East are frustrated with President Trump but also reliant on the U.S. for their security  —  Crowning a year of disputes with the Trump administration over trade tariffs …
Discussion: Politico and Semafor
Jack Brook / Associated Press:
US soldier trying to halt wife's deportation after she was detained on Louisiana military base  —  A U.S. Army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife's deportation after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base where the couple was planning to live together just days after their wedding.
BBC:
Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK  —  Wireless Festival has been cancelled after headliner Kanye West was blocked from coming to the UK.  —  The government refused permission for West to travel to the UK after a backlash to his planned set at the London festival this summer.
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
Texas Considers Required Reading List for Schools, Which Includes the Bible  —  Education officials are planning an overhaul to English and social studies in the nation's largest Republican led state.  —  Texas education officials are considering sweeping changes to English …
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
This GOP candidate seized a half-million ballots and says he may do it again  —  Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is running for California governor as a Republican, tried to review ballots despite election officials reaffirming the results.  —  The November election results were not close in Riverside County, California.
Discussion: Associated Press
AFP / Al Jazeera:
Synagogue in Tehran ‘completely destroyed’ in US-Israeli attack  —  Synagogue hit after attack on adjacent residential building, Mehr news agency reports.  —  Add Al Jazeera on Google  —  United States-Israeli strikes have “completely destroyed” a synagogue in Tehran, according to Iranian media …
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Left Is Baffled—but Still Repulsed—by the White Working Class … After failing to win Congress and the presidency in 2024, the Democrats conducted an internal postmortem of what went wrong.  While they predictably did not divulge the full results, everyone knew what they had found.
 
 
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Washington Examiner:
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