Trump News for Wednesday, April 8, 2026

A seven-story parking garage that was under construction partially collapsed in Philadelphia, killing at least one person.

A sheriff's vehicle deployed a grappler in an attempt to stop a vehicle being pursued on a highway. The car can be seen spinning out through multiple lanes of traffic, then crashing through a wall.

While many details of the U.S. deal with Iran are still unclear or to be negotiated, President Donald Trump suggested they could work together to remove nuclear material.

Young Catholic convert William Bogdan discusses what drew him to the Catholic faith and why he thinks more younger men are joining the church.

Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not

Stock futures paused a historic rally as the tentative ceasefire between the US and Iran was broken.

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and claimed Israel violated a ceasefire agreement by launching a major attack against Lebanon on Wednesday.

The White House on Wednesday insisted that President Trump's ominous threat to destroy Iran cause it to "cave to its knees."

The US president has lashed out at European partners for declining to contribute military forces to the war on Iran.

"This isn't going to be about politics," Kennedy insisted about his new podcast.

It's not clear under what legal authority Trump can tack on this tariff, and analysts called it an 'empty threat'.

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For months, America’s war with Iran has been slowly suffocating the global economy.  In March, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway that links the Persian Gulf’s oil reserves to global markets. As a result, energy prices steadily rose while …

Ghost Murmur was described as a futuristic CIA tool that could detect a heartbeat from vast distances. Physicists say the public story clashes with the basic limits of magnetic sensing

“Color-blind and merit-based” now seems to be anything but.

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Investors hoped the two-week pause in fighting would ease a global oil shortage.

The 25th Amendment is having a moment. According to a tally by NBC News, over 70 Democratic lawmakers called for President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to invoke an obscure constitutional provision that would allow them to temporarily prevent Trump from acting as p…

Never underestimate the stupidity of law enforcement. When things could just be left alone and everything would turn out OK, officers insist on inserting themselves into the equation, ensuring maximum pain and humiliation for everyone involved. In this case, …

Some very lucky players are sweating their Schrödinger's bet right now.

If a new legal opinion stands, Donald Trump will be on track to become one of the most poorly documented presidents ever.

President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to accept a ceasefire in Iran — rather than following through on his threats to escalate the war further with massively destructive attacks harming Iranian civilians — is being greeted with what’s become a familiar re…

After Israeli strikes on Beirut, Donald Trump said Lebanon isn’t included in the Iran ceasefire.

Gas prices and price of bitcoin could get a little more entangled.

Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of Truth.” It was “government speech police.” It was the single most Orwellian thi…

Costco had to re-think its real estate, merchandising and warehouse design to succeed in Japan, which is now its largest market outside of North America.

Heuermann changed his plea to guilty and admitted to the murders of eight women in court.

U.S. declarations of victory ring hollow.

Before a single term has been negotiated, Trump is claiming total victory over Iran, but is this really a win?

Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that the Strait of Hormuz has reopened.

The U.S. showed great tactical capabilities in the Iran war, but Iran emerged the winner at a strategic level.

With elections in Georgia and Wisconsin Tuesday, Democrats continued to overperform, which the party started in 2025 when it regularly improved on its margins compared to the presidential race in 2024.

The courts keep pounding the nails home. What this government is engaged in is illegal, on multiple levels. If you subtract the pro-MAGA Fifth Circuit and 6/9ths of the Supreme Court, you have a judicial quorum that says rights are still rights, despite this …

Looks like Pam Bondi is employing the old "change your address and hope creditors don't find you" method. Contempt of Congress, anyone?

Genocide has never been a red line for the American government, whether it benefits us or not has been the key question ever since the days of Manifest Destiny.

US president says war in Lebanon is 'separate skirmish' as Israel kills dozens across the country after regional truce.

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The DOJ informed the Oversight Committee that its subpoena is essentially moot.

Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio said in a LinkedIn post that we're in the "early stages of a world war that isn't going to end anytime soon."

JD Vance says Donald Trump is seeking a deal “in good faith,” but Iran has to be willing to negotiate.

Pam Bondi's DOJ left election deniers frothing for more. Potential candidates for the attorney general job could give them what they want.

Space medicine researcher Dr. Farhan Asrar discusses the health impact the historic mission will have on the Artemis II crew.

After decades of planning, NASA’s Artemis program is giving astronomers their long-awaited moonshot

New guidance for Title X funding trashes birth control while touting “strengthen family formation” as a key goal. Under his eye!

All three US Air Force bombers, including B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s, were involved in Operation Epic Fury.

A temporary truce can’t erase the chaos of a war that the White House started and never fully understood, Ishaan Tharoor writes.

Wisconsin voters effectively gave Democrats a supermajority on one of the most important state supreme courts in the country on Tuesday. The result was a blowout. Justice-elect Chris Taylor defeated Judge Maria Lazar by a twenty-point margin. Although Wiscons…

Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, said the U.S. would "reserve the opportunity" to take Iran's enriched uranium by force.

Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed the U.S. reached a "decisive military victory" in Iran under President Trump at a press conference at the Pentagon on Wednesday.

A federal judge has ruled that President Trump’s executive order last year defunding PBS and NPR violated the First Amendment, and has issued a permanent injunction insisting that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it. But the ruling may come too late t…

Top members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet were at each other’s throats over war with Iran right up until the moment the president hit the big red...

The U.S. reached a last-minute ceasefire with Iran just before Trump's deadline for the country to meet his demands. And, Trump-backed Clay Fuller wins the U.S. House race in Georgia.

BNY's new housing benefit comes as rising prices and borrowing costs make homeownership harder for workers earning below six figures.

President Donald Trump backed off his ultimatum and agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Investors celebrated the return of the TACO trade.

(Bloomberg) -- Global bonds surged Wednesday on news that the US and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire, pausing a war that roiled markets for weeks by...

Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times: Anthropic's Mythos Preview is not a publicity stunt, and sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security  —  Normally right now I would be writing about the geopolitical…

The Italian leader's cosy alliance with Trump may have become more of a liability than an asset as key elections near.

The Trump Administration claims its use of advanced spyware is "in response to the unprecedented lethality of fentanyl."

Trump cites Iran's 10-point plan as a basis for negotiation, signalling potential progress towards long-term peace.

After eliminating the SAVE plan, the Department of Education is making it costlier to get relief through Public Service Loan Forgiveness buybacks.

To figure out how to boost student voting, colleges have relied on a study about campus voter registration and turnout rates. A Trump administration investigation has cut schools off from new data.

When the only clinic that offered abortions in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula closed, an urgent care decided to step in to fill the gap. Now, others are considering similar moves as brick-and-mortar clinics close in blue states.

As part of the agreement, set to take effect immediately, Trump said the U.S. and Israel would suspend bombing Iran for two weeks, subject to Iran following through on its commitment to reopen the Strait of Hormuz for safe passage during the ceasefire period.

Iran has claimed victory and says upcoming talks in Pakistan do not mean the end of war is guaranteed.

President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in r…

"There's always chatter," Duffy said. "But is there room for some mergers in the aviation industry? Yeah, I think there is."

Pakistan has a historic relationship with Iran, but an agreement was far from certain, writes the BBC’s Caroline Davies

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. …

Economists, foreign policy experts, and politicians weigh in on Donald Trump's last-minute ceasefire deal with Iran.

The abortion pill mifepristone must undergo a safety review by the FDA, the judge said. Louisiana's case seeking to ban its use through telemedicine will proceed after that review.

With just 90 minutes until Tuesday's looming 8 pm deadline for US strikes in Iran, President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire.

Abrego Garcia's wrongful removal in 2025 has spurred criticism of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.

President Donald Trump’s fast pivot on Iran — from “a whole civilization will die tonight” to a benign return to negotiations — has a whipsawed world scratching their heads. What was he up to? One possibility: Many Western analysts believe that Russian nuclea…

He will serve out the rest of Marjorie Taylor Greene's term, which ends in January 2027.

Author Ruchika Malhotra discusses how competition with others leads to stress and could do more harm than good.

A judge pressed the DOJ Tuesday over its push to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia while his criminal human smuggling case in Tennessee is still pending.