"Frustrated" US Demands Plans From Allies To Secure Hormuz In Days: Report

04/09/26 7:27 PM

Trump has repeatedly called NATO a "paper tiger" and threatened to withdraw from the 32-member transatlantic alliance in recent weeks, arguing that Washington's European allies have relied on US security guarantees while providing inadequate support

"Mass Layoffs, Widespread Shutdowns": Iran Economy Worse Than Before War

04/09/26 8:34 PM

Beyond the daily fear of attacks, the most immediate effect of the war has been another upward spiral in the prices of basic goods.

"Stark Warning" As Emperor Penguins Added To Endangered List Amid Rapid Decline

04/09/26 8:14 PM

The latest listing highlights the urgent need for climate action to protect emperor penguins and other vulnerable species.

"We Don't Trust Pak": Israel Envoy Says US Also Sees Country Only As Middleman

04/09/26 8:40 PM

Speaking to NDTV, Azar said, "We don't trust the Pakistanis. And I think that, you know, don't get over-enthusiastic to the degree that the Americans trust them. It's a facilitation role, not more than that."

'Can Do What We Want, Church Better...': US Official's Alleged Snap At Pope

04/09/26 7:34 PM

How much the papal rebukes will weigh on conservative voters, a majority vote base for Trump and the Republicans, could decide if President loses control of the House and even the Senate.

'Danger Zones': Iran Shares Map Of Sea Mines In Hormuz Amid Ceasefire

04/09/26 5:52 PM

The charts were dated from Feb 28 until Thursday, April 9, and it was unclear if the Guard had cleared any mining on the route since then.

'Dude is insane': Trump reamed for suggesting US could take cut of Iran's shipping tolls

04/08/26 12:44 PM

President Donald Trump's two-week "ceasefire" agreement with Iran was quickly flagged by experts as being lopsidedly in favor of Iran — with one of the most notable aspects being the United States being open to negotiating Iran's right to collect shipping tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, a massive concession.But in conversation with ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl on Wednesday, Trump tried to spin it as a good thing — because maybe America could get in on the action and help Iran enforce the toll in exchange for a cut of the revenue.“We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people,” Trump told Karl. “It’s a beautiful thing.”Commenters on social media largely did not agree with the president on that."Counterpoint: It’s not a beautiful thing," wrote columnist Michael A. Cohen."Dude is insane. 25th amendment," wrote former MS NOW host and Zeteo News chief Mehdi Hasan."Are we gonna do joint ventures for tollbooths at all the major global straits — Malacca, Gibraltar, etc — or are joint ventures possible only if we have a costly war first with the littoral states?" wrote SUNY Albany political science professor Christopher Clary. "Trump went from 'we’re going to wipe Iran off the map' to 'maybe we’re going into business with them' literally overnight," wrote anti-Trump GOP focus grouper and Bulwark founder Sarah Longwell."The truly amazing thing is that there are people in the world who will believe this line of [expletive]. There truly is a sucker born every minute," wrote Penn political science lecturer and Niskanen Center senior fellow Damon Linker.

'Fiasco': Alex Jones in disbelief as Trump's 'ceasefire falling apart'

04/08/26 6:33 PM

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones declared President Donald Trump's war in Iran to be a "fiasco" after concluding that a ceasefire was "falling apart."During a Wednesday interview with conservative author Michael Savage, Jones noted that Trump's approval ratings were plunging amid the war in Iran."But admitting this is a big defeat so far for the U.S. The problem is we keep staying in there, in my view, it only gets worse," Jones noted. "And they've got thousands of people that are related to Muhammad that can be the mullah. And each one you get worse than the next. And Trump keeps saying, oh, I've got people I can work with now.""And then, of course, he can't. And now the ceasefire is falling apart. And so this is a disaster in my view," he added. "Now they've closed this [Strait of Hormuz] again. As I predicted this morning, it's all off, and just — this is a fiasco. It's like watching a Three Stooges movie, but they got nuclear weapons. So that's my take."

'Insulting!' Karoline Leavitt snaps as Trump's 'civilization' threat questioned

04/08/26 6:06 PM

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back after a reporter wondered how the U.S. could claim the moral high ground after President Donald Trump threatened to eliminate Iran's entire civilization."So, regarding the President's rhetoric, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush said in a message to the Iraqi people that the military campaign was directed, quote, against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you," the reporter noted during Wednesday's White House press briefing. "Yesterday, the President threatened to destroy Iran's civilization, the entire civilization, not the Iranian government, but the Iranian civilization, the Iranian people.""The U.S. has been a moral leader for most of its history by fighting wars against other governments, not against civilizations," he continued. "How can the president claim that America can ever have the moral high ground if he's threatening to destroy civilizations and not casting wars as fights against other governments?""I think you should take a look at the actions of this president," Leavitt replied without addressing Trump's threat. "A rogue Islamic regime that has chanted death to America for 47 years, that has killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers over the course of the last five decades.""The president absolutely has the moral high ground over the Iranian terrorist regime," she added. "And for you to even suggest otherwise is frankly insulting."With that, Leavitt cut the reporter off and moved on to the next question.

'Iran won' after they 'rope-a-doped' Trump: MS NOW analyst

04/08/26 12:55 PM

According to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” if Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran holds, the US still came out as a loser after the US launched the unprovoked war.According to “Morning Joe” regular Mike Barnicle, there should be no doubt that Iran may have lost militarily, but now holds a stronger hand than before the war began.Before letting former Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass expound on the long-term implications of the paused war, Barnicle bluntly stated, “Did not Iran, though, just play rope-a-dope with the United States? They won. Iran won.”“Look, so that's a larger question,” Haass replied, “Are we better off than we were five weeks ago? Absolutely not. Straight question, we'll see what happens with the nuclear, our standing in the world is worse off. Russia's better off. NATO's worse off. We can go around the horn and see who it is — but yeah.”“And Iran, actually, the regime is stronger than it was. It's military, in the immediate sense, weaker; it's ballistic missiles and all that. But it is stronger politically inside. Our attacks on Persian civilization may have actually helped the regime, because they can stand up and say, we have protected Persian-ness. I also think they're stronger in the region. They have now become much more of a force to be reckoned with and around the world.”“So Iran, yes, we hurt them in the classic sense, but in the strategic sense, they are, they are much better off. And I would say we are worse off for all of it,” he added. - YouTube youtu.be