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7:55 PM ET, April 18, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say  —  American military will pursue vessels around the world that are helping Iran, as it steps up ‘Economic Fury’  —  The U.S. military is preparing in coming days to board Iran-linked oil tankers and seize commercial ships …
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Paul Krugman:
Trump Can't Even Surrender Right  —  When you're losing a war, but it's not an existential defeat, your country, your government can continue pretty much as before.  Aside from the humiliation, there's a well-established technique, which is to declare victory and pull out.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Trump convenes Iran situation room meeting amid renewed Hormuz crisis  —  President Trump convened a White House Situation Room meeting on Saturday morning to discuss the renewed crisis around the Strait of Hormuz and negotiations with Iran, according to two U.S. officials.
Discussion: Politico and NewsMax.com
Axios:
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz once again, fires on tankers  —  Iran said on Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz is again closed to traffic following threats of such action if the U.S. continued its blockade of the shipping channel. … - “As long as the United States does not agree …
New York Times:
For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Deterrent
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Taz Ali / The Guardian:
Middle East crisis live: tanker reports attack as Iran closes strait of Hormuz; French soldier killed in Lebanon
New York Times:
Iran War Live Updates: Iran's Military Says It Has Reimposed ‘Strict Control’ of Strait of Hormuz
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday …
New York Times:
Inside the Supreme Court's Risky New Way of Doing Business  —  Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court's now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power.  —  Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
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New York Times:
Read the Supreme Court's Shadow Papers
Discussion: Reason
The White House:
Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Policymakers and the medical field have long struggled …
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Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Trump Signs Order on Psychedelics to Ease FDA Restrictions
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Joe Rogan joins Trump to sign order allowing psychedelic drug research
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Pete Hegseth Nailed It.  No Really.  —  You've probably seen the story about how, at a DOD presentation, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted what he apparently thought was a bible verse but was in fact the faux biblicalism delivered by Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, in Pulp Fiction.
Politico:
Poll: Trump's immigration message changed.  Voters' opinions have not. … Yet three months later, Americans' views of President Donald Trump's deportations campaign remain broadly negative.  —  New results from The POLITICO Poll show that even as the spotlight has moved away …
Discussion: The Independent, The Hill and Third Way
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Forced out of the military — and into the redistricting wars
Erin Doherty / Politico:
Trump keeps claiming victory in Iran. Our new poll shows voters aren't buying it.
Miami Herald:
Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir  —  In 2023, Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model who was brought to the United States on Jeffrey Epstein's plane when she was 16, was trying to build a new life in South Florida with her teenage son, far removed from the modeling world she had grown up in New York.
Discussion: The Epstein Files
The Independent:
White House officials ‘openly discuss’ firing Kash Patel as FBI chief threatens to sue over report about ‘excessive drinking’  —  Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter behind the bombshell exposé about Kash Patel's alleged conduct, said she stands by her story after he threatened to sue
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit  —  Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.  —  Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit …
Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney who previously represented President Trump's campaign when it challenged the results of the 2020 election …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and MS NOW
Lauren Aratani / The Guardian:
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.  What is going on?  —  Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers  —  Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February.
Discussion: NewsMax.com, CNBC and Associated Press
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame  —  “I think we're going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event on Thursday.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration has urged professional football's leaders …
Paul Krugman:
Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary  —  More than a year ago I interviewed my old friend and colleague Kim Lane Scheppele, a constitutional scholar who speaks Hungarian and knows Hungary, about the march of autocracy.  Now, suddenly, a much happier occasion.  I found her account of how this happened startling …
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
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New York Times:
JD Vance's Very Bad Week
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
The End Times Customer Service Desk  —  False prophets, sticky problems, and decent advice on everything from the dire Strait of Hormuz, to fleeing from the world, to aging gracefully when your body has other ideas … Dear Matt,  —  You've bitched a lot about Trump and the Iran War.
Phillips Payson O'Brien / The Atlantic:
Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump  —  Zelensky has written off the United States.  —  For more than a year after Donald Trump returned to the White House, Ukraine held out hope—at least publicly—of winning him over.  Trump, who revealed his affection for Russia's Vladimir Putin again and again …
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Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Walz in Spain rips ‘feeble-minded’ Trump, Vance over Iran war  —  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) issued sharp criticism against President Trump over his administration's military operations against Iran at the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona on Saturday.
Discussion: Raw Story, Fox News and Politico
 
 
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Washington Post:
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Fox News:
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