
The Guardian - 20 hours 59 min ago
The prime minister clearly believed that Trump's threat of mass bombings of bridges and power plants crossed a new line Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has adopted a careful and deliberate strategy for dealing with Donald Trump since his return to the White House in early 2025: don't buy-in, don't bite back. The approach is a calculation that there is little to be gained from responding to Trump's every Truth Social post, lest it distract...

Variety - 21 hours 4 sec ago
George Clooney, who has long been one of Hollywood's most outspoken critics of Donald Trump, has slammed the U.S. president for threatening to erase “a whole civilization” unless Iran agreed to his terms for a ceasefire deal that was subsequently reached. “Some say Donald Trump is fine. But if anyone says he wants to end […]...

The Hill - 21 hours 27 sec ago
Conservative influencer Laura Loomer sharply criticized the temporary ceasefire agreement reached by the U.S. and Iran on Tuesday evening, railing against diplomatic negotiations as a "negative for our country." Loomer slammed the deal repeatedly in a flurry of social media posts, starting shortly after President Trump announced the two-week pause on escalating strikes in the...

TMZ - 21 hours 2 min ago
Michael Avenatti -- the blustery lawyer who repped Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Donald Trump and then went to prison for ripping her and other clients off -- is now a free man. Well, sort of. Avenatti was convicted of various crimes --…...

The Raw Story - 21 hours 7 min ago
The successor to Donald Trump will have a hard time convincing world allies of the United States' stability, an analyst has warned. A longer-term test will be put to the US by world leaders because of the two terms Trump has served in the Oval Office. Political analyst Rafael Behr, writing in The Guardian , suggested that even the first term Trump served still has an effect on how other countries view the US. Behr wrote, "There is a psychological need to believe that the havoc unleashed...

The Independent - 21 hours 15 min ago
Investors welcomed the deal on Wednesday morning after a volatile six weeks for the financial markets since the conflict first began.

The Raw Story - 21 hours 17 min ago
If the Pakistan-brokered Iran ceasefire had not been announced shortly before Donald Trump's deadline that included a threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have been confronted by a revolt inside the Pentagon, according to new reporting. That is according to MS NOW's David Rohde, who told "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire that a handful of Pentagon lawyers were committed to refusing to approve some of the targets the...

CNBC - 21 hours 29 min ago
President Donald Trump's Iran ceasefire announcement provided some relief to Wall Street and tech stocks shared in the rally.

The Raw Story - 22 hours 3 min ago
Fox News host Lawrence Jones pointed out that Iran achieved a ceasefire without giving in to many of President Donald Trump's demands. "You said it perfectly, talking about the Iranian demands," Jones told Ainsley Earhardt on Wednesday. "All of them, all 10 of them, are non-starters for the United States." "But I will say that the president's demands, we have not reached any of those objectives," he continued. "But he said that we want to dismantle all major nuclear...

ABC News - 22 hours 21 min ago
Stock markets are surging worldwide, and oil prices are plunging back toward $90 per barrel after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to force a "whole civilization" to die in the war with Iran...

Fortune - 22 hours 22 min ago
"The biggest players, the biggest names in banking and finance, in tech and AI across the board" hold the same views, the president's oldest son said.

Huffington Post - 22 hours 31 min ago
President Donald Trump on Tuesday wrote ahead of his deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, "A whole civilization will die tonight."...

Fox News - 22 hours 35 min ago
President Donald Trump to meet NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House as transatlantic tensions escalate over the U.S. military operation in Iran.

The Raw Story - 22 hours 44 min ago
Trump administration officials are scrambling to find "positive" media coverage of President Donald Trump regarding his decision to accept a tentative ceasefire agreement with Iran, with one senior official fearing the president's hatred of "being humiliated" may lead him to reignite the conflict and spark an "Iran-war apocalypse," Zeteo reported on Wednesday. "A problem is Donald Trump hates being humiliated," a senior Trump administration official told Zeteo...

The Independent - 22 hours 46 min ago
The ceasefire reached Wednesday has raised hopes of halting hostilities between Iran, Israel and the United States, but many issues remain unresolved...

The Hill - 22 hours 48 min ago
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday urged lawmakers not to make "TACO" jokes about President Trump suspending strikes on Iran for another two weeks, but to encourage the preservation of life. "I do not appreciate anyone Democrat or Republican taking this moment to make jokes to say Trump chickened out.' The president was...

The Raw Story - 23 hours 5 min ago
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...

The Raw Story - 23 hours 15 min ago
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 Hill - 23 hours 28 min ago
President Trump in a new interview praised the two-week ceasefire deal reached with Iran as a "total and complete victory" for the U.S. Trump told Agence France-Press (AFP) that there is "no question" that it is a U.S. victory. He also said in the brief interview that he believes China intervened to persuade Iran to...

The Hill - 23 hours 35 min ago
President Trump said Wednesday that Iran will not enrich uranium, and that the U.S. will work with the country to dig up B-2 bombers as part of the latest agreement reached between the two countries. "The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very...

The Raw Story - 23 hours 47 min ago
The 10-point peace plan offered by Iran and accepted tentatively by President Donald Trump is already in jeopardy after a major U.S. ally announced their refusal to abide by a key element of the agreement. One of the 10 conditions in the peace plan is that Israel halt its strikes on Lebanon, but on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite expressing support for the peace plan said that the ceasefire agreement "does not include Lebanon," Al Jazeera reported Wednesday....

CNBC - 23 hours 49 min ago
President Donald Trump says the U.S. will impose tariffs of 50% on goods imported to the country from any nation "supplying military weapons to Iran".

The Independent - 23 hours 56 min ago
A hastily brokered truce allows both Washington and Tehran to claim victory and enables Donald Trump to climb down the escalatory ladder. But can Islamabad deliver lasting peace? Shweta Sharma reports...