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Apr 6, 2026 - World

Pramila Jayapal and Jonathan Jackson denounce ‘collective punishment’ amid vast disruption s from US oil blockadeSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxTwo Democratic US lawmakers on Monday called for an end to the “cruel collective punishment” of Cuba after they visited the island to witness the effects of an US energy blockade. The US House members Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Jonathan Jackson of Illinois met with the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, as well as members of Cuba’s parliament during a five-day trip ending on Sunday.“This is cruel collective punishment – effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country – that has produced permanent damage,” Jayapal and Jackson said in a statement released on Sunday. “It must stop immediately.” Continue reading...

Apr 6, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump was “pressed” during a phone call Sunday by the leader of a major U.S. ally to not pursue a ceasefire with Iran, according to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, citing an unnamed source.“[Israeli] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed President Trump in a phone call yesterday not to pursue a ceasefire at this stage and expressed concern over the risks involved in such a move, an Israeli source said,” Ravid said on Monday in a social media post on X, according to an automatic translation of the original post’s Hebrew text."Trump told Netanyahu that if Iran agrees to the US demands, a ceasefire might be achieved, but he emphasized that he would not back down from his demand that Iran hand over all the enriched uranium in its possession and agree not to resume enrichment, according to the Israeli source."Last month, Bloomberg reported that Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran was “partly motivated by pressure from outside allies,” including Netanyahu, who’s currently wanted by the International Court of Justice for alleged war crimes.Also last month, Trump’s head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned in opposition to the U.S. war against Iran, accusing Israel in his resignation letter of having manipulated Trump into launching the conflict that has proven unpopular with a majority of Americans.

Apr 6, 2026 - World

Hungary's parliamentary election on Sunday has become the toughest political test of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's 16-year rule.

Apr 6, 2026 - World

The war in Iran has worn down President Donald Trump's spirit and sidetracked his "culture war obsessions," an analyst explained on Monday. Salon's Amanda Marcotte discussed how Trump has tried to convince the American public to support the ongoing war in the Middle East. Despite his attempts during his address to the nation last week, he "sounded like a whipped dog, barely able to summon the energy to make false promises about ending the war 'very shortly.'"Trump has also attempted to redirect attention from Iran back to his "culture war fixations." "There is no telling how bad the war and the economy will get, but one thing is starting to become certain: The war in Iran and the escalating economic damage from it is getting in the way of Trump’s true love, which is waging culture wars that stir up the ugliest impulses within the MAGA base," Marcotte wrote. "The president desperately wants everyone to stop talking about oil prices, bombed schools and the Strait of Hormuz, and get back to stoking racist hysteria and leading revenge campaigns against his perceived enemies."As the president has tried to convince his base to care about the SAVE Act, his Supreme Court birthright citizenship case and continued election fraud claims, he still can't quite convince Americans to shift their focus away from the Iran war and the economic fallout. "Because of this Trump has a reason, however awful it may be, to keep his culture war obsessions front and center," Marcotte added. "The unbending loyalty of the MAGA base has always been his shield, protecting him from political collapse even when everyone outside of 65% of Americans disapprove of his performance as president. As the Covid-19 pandemic showed, these people will go to great lengths, including refusing to protect themselves against a deadly virus, if they feel it serves their larger cause of winning the culture war.""But if it seems Trump’s attention is fully pulled away from their paranoias and hatreds, he risks demoralizing them — especially since he’s a rapidly-aging lame duck. But by foolishly starting a war that is spiraling out of control, his ability to redirect public attention to issues that better serve his political ambitions seems to have been crushed."

Apr 6, 2026 - World

President Trump said Monday that God is on the side of the U.S. as Iran faces the looming zero hour on the president's ultimatum to either make a deal to end the war or sustain even worse destruction.