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U.S. stock futures jumped higher and oil prices plunged after President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire and a potential longer peace deal with Iran on Tuesday night.
Futures indicated a two percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. S&P futures were up 2.3 percent and Nasdaq futures were up nearly three percent.
Oil prices fell sharply. Brent crude futures fell by around 13.5 percent to $94.50 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate futures dropped 14.7 percent to $96.40 a barrel. U.S. natural gas prices dropped by 3.6 percent. U.S. home heating oil futures dropped by more than 18 percent.
Stocks in Asia rallied on the news.
Anticlimax
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The end of the mullahs’ civilization has been called off, at least for now and probably forever. President Trump is characterizing it positively:
President Trump agreed to a two-week pause on military strikes on Iran in a dramatic pivot less than 90 minutes from his 8 p.m. deadline — saying it was subject to Tehran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said he spoke with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, who urged him to hold off on what he described as a “destructive force” set to be unleashed on Iran.
Democrats and their media allies have worked overtime to paint President Donald Trump as reckless, unstable, and dangerously unfit to lead. The latest excuse for their hysteria came after Trump put pressure on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has been effectively closed since February, cutting off roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply. They’ve been daring the United States to respond ever since, and Trump did respond. And that’s when the left completely lost it.
On Tuesday morning, Trump issued a blunt warning on Truth Social. He demanded that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
He set a deadline and made it clear he wasn’t bluffing. He warned
The Elitist Media are predictable because their Trump derangement pushes them into predictable patterns of conduct which then manifests on the air and in real time. This predictability extends to media reactions to the announcement of a two-week ceasefire in Iran, as demonstrated by CNN’s Erin Burnett. Watch as Burnett bemoans President Donald Trump not obliterating “a whole civilization” as proof evident of “Trump Always Chickens Out:” SO PREDICTABLE: Erin Burnett proclaims TACO after Trump announces a ceasefire with Iran pic.twitter.com/jnykqC9j7x — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 8, 2026 ERIN BURNETT: And then, of course, Max, then you get to the practicality
Breaking: We Have a Ceasefire
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Welp. Guess the threat of Armageddon and Trump not backing down in the face of the world going nuts on him sent some shivers down the Iranian regime's legs. Spazz cases. But they're not the ones in the crosshairs who have to do the risk calculations. I had an inkling something had shivered mullah timbers when I saw this just a few hours ago. Like, 'Hey!'
MAYBE THIS FLIPPIN' GUY'S FOR #REALZ!!!
And they BLINKED
The announcement has just come straight from the president. "I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks."
"This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so
Will Donald Trump follow through on his ultimatum to target and destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz did not fully reopen? We are still about 90 minutes away from H-Hour on that demand. However, we have already seen this threat expose the hypocrisy, ignorance, and propagandizing of the American media – and not just from legacy media outlets, either.
Initially, I began addressing this in my Final Word post, but it got so extensive that it clearly requires a more definitive rebuttal. The “war crime” narrative in relation to Trump’s threats to target Iranian energy infrastructure didn’t start with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres,
Enter B-52 Sandman
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Just a quick post to update on whether the 8pm Eastern deadline issued by President Donald Trump for Iran to cave is real or not. Spoiler alert: It's real.
After a Truth Social and X cross-post by the President that promised a civilization-ending demise coming to the Iranian military junta running the country, a couple of things happened. The anti-Trump fever swamp leapt to war crime accusations, fears of nuclear weapons being used, and calls for emergency impeachment and/or 25th Amendment measures against Trump being deployed to fill the timelines of the online world and cable news outlets leading up to the deadline.
Simultaneously,
MADISON, Wis. — The board that runs the Universities of Wisconsin voted unanimously Tuesday to fire the system’s president, drawing the ire of Republican lawmakers who called it a “partisan hatchet job.”
Jay Rothman had refused an offer from the board of regents to quietly resign, saying it never gave a clear reason why he should.//snip//Rothman brokered a deal with Republicans in 2023 that called for freezing diversity hires and creating a position at UW-Madison focused on conservative thought in exchange for the Legislature releasing money for UW employee raises and tens of millions of dollars for construction projects across the system.
Don't necessarily expect this to show up at the gas pump instantaneously, but there's good news on the oil price front following President Trump's announcement that a tentative ceasefire agreement had been reached with Iran. It's probably too soon to call this a done deal — lots of i's to dot and t's to cross before that can be said. And...this is Iran we're talking about.
Still, following the President's announcement of the potential deal, oil prices took a precipitous drop, marking the biggest one-day nosedive since 1991 and the Gulf War.
Crude oil prices dropped sharply Tuesday evening, falling well under $100
Trump-backed Republican pads GOP's fragile
House majority by winning showdown for
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House majority by winning showdown for
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RINGGOLD, GA — Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller just gave House Speaker Mike Johnson a little bit of breathing room as the GOP clings to a razor-thin majority in Congress.
Fuller, who was backed by President Donald Trump, on Tuesday defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in a special election to fill the empty U.S. House seat in Georgia's solidly red 14th Congressional District, the Associated Press reports.
The seat was left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Greene quit Congress with a year left in her term, after a bitter falling out with Trump.
In a statement published by Mehr News Agency, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has confirmed the reported two weeks ceasefire deal negotiated by Pakistan.
The statement said that the ceasefire agreement was reached with the approval of Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.
The statement said deal is a “victory for Iran”, adding that negotiations for a permanent deal will be held in Islamabad.
Iran’s foreign minister has shared a statement on behalf of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council declaring that “if attacks against Iran are halted, our Powerful Armed Forces will cease their defensive operations”.
Drivers were warned to give themselves extra time for journeys as protests on Tuesday as protests were held on across roads in the Republic of Ireland against the rising cost of fuel.
A number of slow-moving convoys took to various locations on main roads leading to Dublin and near other large urban areas.
Truck driver Sonny Boyd said they were in response to the "crazy" cost of fuel.
"We need it capped," he said. "We need carbon tax to be gone. We just need the government to step in and help us because we can't do this any longer."
Detainees at Rikers Island with complicated medical needs will be transferred to a Manhattan hospital to get access to specialty care, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday. A new therapeutic housing unit is opening to facilitate the mayor's plan for closing the troubled jail complex. It will serve 104 people in custody. The first one will be at Bellevue Hospital in Kips Bay and have direct access to specialty services, including oncology, cardiology and neurology. "Rather than wait critical hours and travel off site to get the treatment they need, specialty services will be just an elevator ride away," Mamdani said.
WASHINGTON — The CIA used a futuristic new tool called “Ghost Murmur” to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned.
The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise, two sources close to the breakthrough said.
It was the tool’s first use in the field by the spy agency — and was alluded to Monday afternoon by President Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe at a White House briefing.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin may take action against “sanctuary cities” that subvert federal immigration laws by removing customs agents at their international airports. The move would crush the tourist economies of sanctuary cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco by rendering them incapable of processing international travelers. “I believe sanctuary cities — it’s not lawful,” the DHS boss said. “This one area we may take a hard look at is … some of these cities have international airports. If they’re a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city?"
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he agreed to suspend planned attacks on Iranian infrastructure for two weeks.
The move was “subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz,” he wrote on Truth Social.
The announcement came less than two hours before his deadline on Iran to either make a deal that includes opening the Strait of Hormuz or else face major attacks on its civilian infrastructure.
Trump wrote that he made the decision “based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan.”
It is absolutely self-evident to me that space exploration is pointless, and the more urgent the crises besetting this planet we live on, the more pointless it becomes. I can see why people got excited about it in the 1960s, back when the world was young and we still thought there might be little green people out there – who wouldn’t want to meet them? Most serious opinion, however, has now settled on the “Where is everybody?” paradox first framed by the physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. If there is intelligent life anywhere, why has it not sought to make contact? It’s because there isn’t. There’s nothing out there
President Donald Trump is considering a Pakistani proposal to give Iran negotiations another two weeks.
The possible deescalation comes just hours ahead of an 8 p.m. EDT deadline that Trump gave to Tehran to strike a deal and open the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of Iranian “civilization.” Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has been involved in the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, posted a request on X urging “President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks” and requesting that Iran open the strait “for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture.”
President Donald Trump said that the United States is in “heated negotiations” over the Iran war, declining to elaborate on the talks.
“I can’t tell you, because right now we’re in heated negotiations,” Trump told Fox News in a brief phone interview when asked how he’s feeling about talks.
Trump said that he was about to be fully briefed on Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s proposed two-week ceasefire — to which the White House told CNN earlier Tuesday “a response will come.”
Tehran, Iran – United States President Donald Trump says daily life could be different for more than 90 million Iranians on Wednesday, after his deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz expires. Trump says that Iran’s electricity, bridges, and other critical infrastructure will be bombed if it does not open the vital waterway, despite the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure being a violation of international law.
In the last hours before the 8pm US Eastern Time (23:00 GMT) deadline approaches, Iranians are left to worry about the consequences of attacks that Trump has threatened would be the death of “a whole civilisation“.
The United States Supreme Court is finally ruling on an issue (Watson v. RNC) that should have been decided long ago: the dissonant practice of accepting ballots after the Election Day deadline.
This case could indeed shift the 2026 midterms in Republicans’ favor, since Democrats often win by broad and unjustified election expansion, which opens the door to cheating, stuffing, and undoing the vote.
More election cases are coming before the United States Supreme Court, and the conservative majority looks more inclined to bring the much-needed order and common sense back to our elections.
A Democratic activist says a number of women are preparing to accuse California Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct.
Cheyenne Hunt, an attorney, former congressional candidate, and executive director of Gen Z for Change, said she has been working with multiple individuals who intend to come forward.
In a post on the X platform, Hunt said the allegations involve “DMs and Snapchat messages” and range “from uncomfortable comments to potentially criminal conduct.”
“I got involved because the first victim who approached me is a close friend,
Billy Bush recently appeared on the new Sean Hannity podcast and said that after the 2016 election, ABC News devoted an entire division of people to taking down Trump.
This is not exactly shocking news, but it is a third party confirmation of what Trump supporters have known for years – That the media has been out to ‘get’ Trump since the moment he won the presidency. Before that, even.
Of course, left wing networks like MSNOW are devoted to the same purpose, but at least they are up front about their biases. ABC News pretends to maintain some semblance of objectivity.
Hegseth Confirms: Downed Airman’s First
Words to U.S. Forces From Inside Iran
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Words to U.S. Forces From Inside Iran
Were ‘God is Good’ replies
Both President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth invoked God Monday during a White House press conference detailing the rescues of two U.S. airmen whose F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran.
“God was watching us—amazing,” Trump said, noting that it happened around “Easter territory.”
The entire ordeal played out over Easter weekend, beginning with the traumatic shootdown of the fighter jet on Good Friday and concluding with the dramatic rescue of the second airman on Easter Sunday.
“When you go into these areas, you don’t come out like we came out. God was watching us, I tell you,” the president said.