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- Iran Launches Missiles at Israel Minutes After Trump Announces Ceasefire
Iran launched missile strikes on Israel within minutes of President Donald Trump’s announcement of a two-week pause on U.S. strikes against Iran. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday night that he had agreed to a request from Pakistan to extend his Iran deadline by two weeks, claiming he would pause attacks on the country during that period. Though the Israeli government has not yet issued an official statement, multiple outlets have reported confirmation from sources that the country has agreed to take part in the ceasefire. Despite these tenuous steps towards a cessation of hostilities, air raid sirens went off multiple times in Israel after Trump’s announcement. Fox News reporter Mike Tobin reported live from Tel Aviv, telling Fox host Jesse Watters that the alerts of incoming strikes had occurred within minutes of the president’s Truth Social post. “Jesse, as soon as we got the ceasefire, we got a bunch of missile fire. Wasn’t five minutes from the Truth Social post to the point where the phones started alerting that missiles had launched from Iran,” he said. “The first of the missiles was intercepted, and the shrapnel landed outside of Jerusalem, not causing any problems.” As Tobin continued to describe the cluster bombs that had just exploded over Tel Aviv, he was interrupted by an additional alert signaling yet another strike. “What we saw here in Tel Aviv were these cluster bombs like you see on your screen right now,” Tobin said. He continued: They break up and look a bit like a Fourth of July firework and usually has one bright point that comes streaking down to Earth. But the bomblets themselves, they shine bright when they first break up, then they get dark as they cool off, and then they explode when they hit the ground. And it looks like I’m getting an alert for one more missile. So I’m counting six missiles to this point, and looks like one more, so we’ll go up to seven as the phone is telling me that more missiles, at least one more missile is inbound. We saw a missile to the south of the country, meaning that the Houthis got in the act and fired a missile in that direction, but what I understand is that missile failed in flight. Tobin went on to report that the Israeli government was dissatisfied with the ceasefire deal, though the country had agreed to join… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNBC Host Asks if Trump’s Threat of Genocide Is Bullish for Markets: ‘Bigger...Shortly after President Donald Trump threatened Iran in downright apocalyptic and genocidal terms on Tuesday, CNBC’s Sara Eisen wondered whether such a development would affect investors’ mindsets. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” the president posted on Truth Social. Hours later, Trump announced he was suspending strikes on Iran for two weeks as negotiations continue. The suspension of attacks came two days after Trump said he would bomb Iran’s civilian infrastructure if the country did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” Trump wrote. “There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” Shortly before Trump announced the pause in hostilities, on Tuesday’s Money Movers, Eisen asked CNBC commentator Mike Santoli about the president’s “a whole civilization will die” post. “So, Mike, let’s talk about tonight,” Eisen began. “This deadline that President Trump has set, 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?” “I think the market is trying to stay balanced on both feet, because I think it’s hard to discern that type of rhetoric as a promise of something very destructive and long-lasting happening to distinguish it from what somebody might say, if you want to sort of build up a lot of hoopla before you de-escalate,” Santoli responded. “And I honestly think the market is confused about that. It’s the duration of this crisis that matters, I think, a lot more than the next move. We don’t even know if eight o’clock is gonna stick. We’ve had these deadlines pushed up, so you have to remain open to a lot of scenarios.” After Trump announced the two-week ceasefire, oil fell 16% as of this writing and stock futures surged, with the major indexes climbing about two percent. Watch above via CNBC.The post CNBC Host Asks if Trump’s Threat of Genocide Is Bullish for Markets: ‘Bigger Upside Risk or Downside Risk?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- A Tale of Two Ceasefires: MS NOW Declares Trump ‘Caved’ and CNN Says He’s ...The three major cable news networks crowned different winners, Tuesday night, following President Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to “suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.” Over on CNN, Erin Burnett kicked off OutFront by saying the president was “standing down.” “Literally at the 11th hour, Trump backing down after threatening that a, quote, ‘whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again,'” Burnett said. “Horrific and unacceptable words — which, just moments ago, at the 11th hour before his deadline, Trump now has essentially rescinded.” MS NOW’s takeaway from the breaking was even more blunt. In the opening moments of The Weeknight, Symone-Sanders Townsend declared that Trump “caved.” “Donald Trump just caved — backing down from his fake deadline averting for now what the president described this morning as an attack on Iran that would lead to the death of a, quote, ‘whole civilization,'” Sanders-Townsend said. “Moments ago, the president posted, quote, ‘I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. The suspension is contingent on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz.’ … Trump says he backed down based on talks with Pakistan, which is serving as an intermediary.” But Fox News painted a very different picture of the same development. Laura Ingraham noted that she had just gotten off the phone with the president moments before going on the air, and came away from that call believing that it was Iran which “blinked.” “He was extremely serious in my conversation with him just now,” Ingraham said. “And he was also cautiously, but seriously optimistic. He told me that the negotiations are, and were, incredibly complex. He does not want them jeopardized. There still needs to be an announced agreement, and of course we all know in this part of the world anything can happen, but it sure looks like Iran blinked.” Three networks, three hot takes right out of the gate. Mediaite will continue to monitor coverage throughout the evening — as the primetime cable news hosts weigh in on the breaking developments. Watch above, via CNN, MS NOW and Fox News. The post A Tale of Two Ceasefires: MS NOW Declares Trump ‘Caved’ and CNN Says He’s ‘Backing Down’ — While Fox News Insists ‘Iran Blinked’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- An Incredibly Weird Time to Be Alive
Seeing the Earth from space will change you so profoundly that there’s a term for it: the overview effect. The extreme minority who have had the privilege describe it similarly. You see something that you were never meant to see, namely the Earth just sitting there, with the entire universe surrounding it. Gazing upon the blue marble, surrounded by its oh-so-thin green layer of atmosphere, the auroras flickering on the fringes, is not merely awe-inspiring but something of a factory reset for one’s sense of self. Almost everyone tears up at the sight.“You don’t see borders, you don’t see religious lines, you don’t see political boundaries. All you see is Earth, and you see that we are way more alike than we are different,” Christina Koch, one of the four astronauts on the Artemis II mission, told NASA recently. Jim Lovell, describing the view on Apollo 8 from the dark side of the moon back in the late 1960s, told Chicago magazine that he could put his thumb up to the window, and in that moment, “everything I ever knew was behind it. Billions of people. Oceans. Mountains. Deserts. And I began to wonder, where do I fit into what I see?”Where some see immeasurable beauty, others see fragility. Marina Koren previously reported in this magazine that, upon seeing the Earth from space, one astronaut “became absolutely convinced we would kill ourselves off between 500 and 1,000 years from now.” Famously, the actor William Shatner has written that his brief experience looking at the Earth produced a profound sadness. “What I was feeling was grief, and the grief was for the Earth,” he told Koren in 2022.I’ve never been to space, but for the past few days, I’ve oscillated between these emotions—awe and despair—as NASA has continued to post photos of the Earth and moon from Artemis II. Yesterday, the Integrity spacecraft came within 4,067 miles of the moon during its lunar flyby. For 40 minutes, it lost all contact with humanity. At one point they were 252,756 miles away from Earth—the farthest from the planet anyone has ever traveled. For seven hours, the astronauts—Koch, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen—were able to gaze upon a part of the lunar surface previously unseen by human eyes. According to NASA, the astronauts took roughly 10,000 photos, which feels perfectly proportional for such an occasion.A few of these photos—some taken before… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Pakistan PM’s X Post Laying Groundwork for Ceasefire Shows Extremely Odd Edit ...
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s social media post that laid the groundwork for Tuesday’s two-week pause of U.S. attacks on Iran contained an odd edit, suggesting the announcement was written for him by people outside of the Pakistani government. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday night that he had agreed to a request from Pakistan to extend his Iran deadline by two weeks, claiming he would pause attacks on the country during that period. The president had previously threatened to bomb civilian targets in Iran, claiming that “a whole civilization will die,” if a deal with Iran was not reached by 8 p.m. on Tuesday. “Based on conversations with [Pakistan] Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks,” Trump wrote. Sharif publicly announced his request for a two-week extension a few hours earlier, writing in a post on X that he was urging Trump to “allow diplomacy to run its course”: Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region. But this version of the announcement was not the full text of the post originally posted to X. As seen in the post’s publicly visible edit history, the original text began with the phrase “*Draft – Pakistan’s PM Message on X*.” Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including: "*Draft – Pakistan's PM Message on X*" Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Latest Cook Political Report Says Republicans Need to Win 76% of Toss-Up House S...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) ability to hang on to his gavel past next January is increasingly in jeopardy, according to the latest analysis by the Cook Political Report that paints a dire picture for House Republicans’ chances of hanging onto the majority. All 435 House seats are on the ballot in their respective districts this November. CPR’s updated House ratings list 189 seats as Solid Democrat, 10 Likely Democrat, 14 Lean Democrat, 17 Toss Up, 3 Lean Republican, 17 Likely Republican, and 185 Solid Republican — an overall 213 that are Lean/Likely/Solid Democrat, 205 Lean/Likely/Solid Republican, plus the 17 Toss Up seats. These latest ratings incorporate five races that shifted towards the Democrats and one that shifted in the GOP’s favor. NEW @CookPolitical House rating changes: five races move towards Dems, one towards GOP. Notably, #PA08 Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R) moves from Lean R to Toss Up. Full analysis by @ercovey: https://t.co/zTTeceN31j pic.twitter.com/2qnmGo33N7 — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) April 7, 2026 These trends meant that Democrats were the “substantial favorites for control” of the House, wrote CPR’s senior editor Dave Wasserman, because “Republicans would need to win 76% of the Toss Ups to keep their majority.” NEW @CookPolitical House ratings show Dems as substantial favorites for control, as Republicans would need to win 76% of the Toss Ups to keep their majority: https://t.co/mAdCOtLpRZ Lean/Likely/Solid Dem: 213Lean/Likely/Solid GOP: 205Toss Up: 17 pic.twitter.com/k9BanpC3Hs — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) April 7, 2026 “The political environment for House Republicans continues to look bleak,” wrote CPR’s House editor Erin Covey. “Even before President Donald Trump’s approval rating reached a nadir amid spiking gas prices and an unpopular war with Iran, special and off-year elections showed Democrats with a significant enthusiasm advantage and Republicans were trailing the national generic ballot by five to six points.” Among the races that shifted left were two with significant populations of Hispanics, Covey reported: Rep. Nellie Pou (D-NJ) is more likely to hold her seat as it moves from Lean Democrat to Likely Democrat, and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) has a tougher road with her seat shifting from Solid Republican to Likely Republican — a move Covey attributed to Florida Democrats having “secured a particularly strong candidate.” CPR’s ratings are sunnier for Republicans in the Senate, with 34 Democratic-held seats and 31 Republicans not up for re-election this… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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