
US Weekly - 20 hours 38 min ago
George Clooney has clapped back at President Donald Trump and the White House for mocking his acting ability amid the war in Iran. "Families are losing their loved ones. Children have been incinerated. The world's economy is on a knife's edge," Clooney, 64, told Us Weekly in a Wednesday, April 8, statement. "This is a time for vigorous debate at the highest levels. Not for infantile name calling." Earlier this week, Clooney told Italian high school students that Trump, 79...

The Guardian - 21 hours 14 min ago
This blog has now closed. Follow the latest ceasefire news and updates in our Iran war live blog here . A genocidal threat, and then the US president, Donald Trump, blinked without any apparently meaningful concessions from Iran. As in so much concerning the second Trump administration, the two week ceasefire "deal" that will see the strait of Hormuz reopened if it can be described as such is maddeningly vague and short on detail, apparently kicking the can on key issues down the road. Iran's...

Huffington Post - 21 hours 44 min ago
The warning from Iran's lead negotiator laid bare the continued volatility in the region following Tuesday's ceasefire announcement by President Donald Trump.

US Weekly - 21 hours 47 min ago
Megyn Kelly has revealed her disgust over President Donald Trump 's threat that "a whole civilization [would] die" in Iran prior to a ceasefire being reached. "I don't know about you but I am sick of this s***. I'm just sick of it," Kelly, 55, admitted on The Megyn Kelly Show on Wednesday, April 8. "Can't [Trump] just behave like normal human?" The current diplomatic dispute between the U.S. and Iran erupted over the Trump administration's demand that...

The Guardian - 22 hours 3 min ago
This live blog is now closed. Success or surrender? Iran ceasefire exposes rift in Trump's Maga movement Sign up for the Breaking News US email Pete Hegseth repeated Donald Trump's social media comments that Iran will cease uranium enrichment a condition that Tehran has previously refused to budge on. "Any material they should not have, will be removed right now," Hegseth said. "The president has been clear from the beginning, there will be no Iranian nuclear weapons." Continue...

Sky News - 22 hours 17 min ago
Donald Trump has repeated his criticism of NATO after holding talks with the alliance's secretary general in Washington.

The Guardian - 22 hours 53 min ago
US and Iran can't seem to agree on much of their fragile two-week ceasefire agreement key US politics stories from Wednesday 8 April at a glance The two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, brokered by Pakistan within hours of Donald Trump's threat of civilization-level destruction, is hanging by a thread and possibly some key misunderstandings. Washington and Tehran have given decidedly different versions of what was agreed as the Trump administration and Iranian leaders each claim victory...

The Guardian - 23 hours 4 min ago
Mark Rutte praises very frank' talks but declines to say if president discussed potential withdrawal from alliance Mark Rutte, the secretary general of Nato, has said Donald Trump was "clearly disappointed" that the US's allies had refused to join its war against Iran, following a closed-door meeting in Washington on Wednesday. Speaking to CNN after his private meeting with the US president, Rutte declined to say directly whether Trump raised his threat to withdraw from the military...

Huffington Post - 23 hours 34 min ago
President Donald Trump repeated his complaint about NATO after a private meeting with the alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday.

Fox News - 23 hours 45 min ago
Jimmy Kimmel urged UCLA's national champion women's basketball team to give President Donald Trump a fake trophy at the White House during a late night segment.

The Guardian - 23 hours 46 min ago
Customers make hundreds of thousands of dollars as records show substantial bets made before announcement A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the US and Iran would reach a ceasefire on Tuesday, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers. These bets were made even though, in the hours before a two-week ceasefire was announced on Tuesday, Donald Trump's rhetoric had escalated sharply...

The New Yorker - 23 hours 57 min ago
Bondi's tenure at the Justice Department was marked by incompetence. But her effort to remake it in Donald Trump's image was "a tragic success," the contributing writer Ruth Marcus says.