Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-07 03:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Several Democrats have condemned Donald Trump after the United States president renewed his threat to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure in a profanity-laden message.
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[2026-04-07 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey speaks during a news conference at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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[2026-04-07 03:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pilot saved in F-15 mission as Tehran rejects ceasefire; Trump threatens action if no deal by Tuesday, 8pm EST.
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[2026-04-07 03:41 UTC+10:00] [F-15] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pilot saved in F-15 mission as Tehran rejects ceasefire; Trump threatens action if no deal by Tuesday, 8pm EST.
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[2026-04-07 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump vowed Monday to catch the “leaker” who revealed that US forces were not immediately able to rescue the second F-15 pilot shot down over Iran — as he retold of the wounded airman’s dramatic weekend rescue.
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[2026-04-07 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has warned that an Iranian proposal to bring an end to the war is not enough to avert his threat to destroy infrastructure unless Tehran reopens the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-04-07 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump described Monday the 48 hours an F-15E Strike Eagle crew member spent behind enemy lines — who was “injured quite badly” and “bleeding rather profusely” before he was rescued by US forces.
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[2026-04-07 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jon Fleetwood via substack,
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[2026-04-07 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iranians are "animals," therefore bombing their civilian infrastructure like power plants would not be considered a war crime.
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[2026-04-07 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE- In this Feb. 5, 2018, file photo, the seal of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System is displayed in the ground at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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[2026-04-07 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on the “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo” program, on the Fox Business Network, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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[2026-04-07 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said Monday that a proposed 45-day ceasefire with Iran was a "very significant step" but "not good enough" for him to sign, as Iranian officials vowed to keep fighting.
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[2026-04-07 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Disgraced Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales, who was forced to ditch his reelection bid after revelations of his sexual advances on a subordinate who later set herself on fire with gasoline, prodded another staffer for sex years earlier, damning new texts show.
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[2026-04-07 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The US Supreme Court has paved the way for Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction to be thrown out, sending the case back to a lower court where it is likely to be dismissed.
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[2026-04-07 02:37 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: US President Donald Trump says Americans want their troops to return home from Iran, even though he would prefer to launch a mission to seize the country’s oil, in a strong signal that he will curb his maximalist ambitions in favour of a ceasefire.
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[2026-04-07 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE way the Trump administration’s conduct of the US’ 2026 war against Iran has drawn significant criticism that point to a series of strategic miscalculations as well as a perceived apathy toward long-term geopolitical and geoeconomic stability. Let me cite the primary ones.
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[2026-04-07 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-07 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Competition] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — A new generation of defense startups is taking on the world’s biggest arms-makers in a cutthroat competition — and gaining ground.
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[2026-04-07 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Ordinary Iranians have been responding to US President Donald Trump's threat to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges unless it opens the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-04-07 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. lawmakers Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., center left, and Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., pose for photojournalists at the Malecon in Havana, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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[2026-04-07 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI/WASHINGTON - The US and Iran on Monday weighed a framework plan to end their five‑week-old conflict, as Tehran said it wanted a lasting end to the war and pushed back against pressure to swiftly reopen the Strait of Hormuz under a temporary ceasefire.
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[2026-04-07 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson hailed the daring rescue mission of the F-15E Strike Eagle crew that had been shot down in Iranian airspace as more complex than the historic raid to kill Osama Bin Laden.
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[2026-04-07 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has issued a direct ultimatum to Iran: reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 8pm Eastern Time in the United States on Tuesday, April 7 (midnight GMT on April 8), or face the destruction of national power plants and bridges.
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[2026-04-07 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump has not backed an idea for a 45-day ceasefire that would take effect before his upcoming deadline for Iran to either reopen the Strait of Hormuz or else face major attacks on its civilian infrastructure, a White House official told CNBC on Monday.
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[2026-04-07 00:45 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: The US Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for the Justice Department to move forward with dismissing a case in which Steve Bannon, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted after defying a congressional subpoena.
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[2026-04-07 00:35 UTC+10:00] [California] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Move to back the Republican candidate could dash party’s hopes of locking Democrats out of the November runoff
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[2026-04-07 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Oil prices seesawed Monday morning as the next stage of the Iran war remained unclear — with President Trump threatening heavy attacks but reports indicating regional mediators are working on a 45-day ceasefire.
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[2026-04-07 00:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court removed a key hurdle Monday and set the stage for the Justice Department to toss out the charges against President Trump’s ally Steve Bannon for defying congressional subpoena demands in 2022.
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[2026-04-07 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Steve Hilton speaks during the California gubernatorial candidate debate, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Laure Andrillon, File)
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[2026-04-06 23:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LA HABANA (AP) — Dos congresistas estadounidenses que viajaron a Cuba para observar la situación humanitaria en la isla aseguraron que, aunque hay un contacto entre los dos gobiernos, aún no se puede hablar de una negociación formal.
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[2026-04-06 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday confirmed there was a deal under consideration for a 45-day ceasefire with Iran, but that President Donald Trump had "not signed off" on the proposal and is continuing the war.
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[2026-04-06 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: These days the entertainment biz makes for some strange bedfellows.
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[2026-04-06 23:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Steve Bannon speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, in Dallas, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos)
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[2026-04-06 23:30 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump to speak to media at 1pm ET after threatening Iran on Easter Sunday over the closure of the strait of Hormuz
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[2026-04-06 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Islamabad has put forward proposals for a ceasefire as the US president threatened ‘hell’ if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen
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[2026-04-06 23:20 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Islamabad has put forward proposals for a ceasefire as the US president threatened ‘hell’ if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen
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[2026-04-06 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The United States has spent trillions of dollars on foreign wars, thanks in large part to the largesse of countries around the world that are willing to fund its ever-ballooning debt
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[2026-04-06 23:15 UTC+10:00] [Afghanistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The United States has spent trillions of dollars on foreign wars, thanks in large part to the largesse of countries around the world that are willing to fund its ever-ballooning debt
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[2026-04-06 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-04-06 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments on President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born on American soil to undocumented immigrants – the clearest legal expression yet of the nativist worldview that now drives much of the administration’s immigration policy. Although immigration tends to be a matter for domestic policy, that worldview was perhaps most clearly articulated this year in a foreign policy speech that deserves renewed attention.
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[2026-04-06 22:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump, anunciou no domingo (05/04) o resgate dramático de um aviador abatido em um caça que caiu sobre o Irã, em uma operação que ele descreveu como uma das "mais audaciosas da história" de seu país. Teerã, entretanto, alegou que a missão foi "frustrada".
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[2026-04-06 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US stock futures rose, but were off session highs (and lows) and crude oil dipped as the bipolar market focused its attention on a report of a push to secure a potential ceasefire in the war in Iran, following a reversal in those exact same hopes late last week. As of 8:00am ET S&P 500 futures added 0.1% in light trading after the Easter holiday, reversing an earlier loss of as much as 0.8%, but also off session highs.
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[2026-04-06 22:26 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-06 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump on Sunday warned Tehran to "Open the Strait" and make a deal by the end of Tuesday, or the U.S. military would "blow everything up" and "take over the oil." Meanwhile, Iran rejected Trump's ultimatum to reopen the Hormuz chokepoint, saying it would only reopen the critical waterway once damage from the war is compensated.
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[2026-04-06 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Several leaders of Iranian Kurdish parties have denied that they received weapons from the United States, after President Donald Trump said that Washington had sent weapons to the Iranian protesters through the Kurds.
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[2026-04-06 22:14 UTC+10:00] [Bridges] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to bomb power plants and bridges across Iran if it does not reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz would be a war crime, one of the EU’s top leaders cautioned on Monday, hours before Washington’s deadline expires.
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[2026-04-06 22:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US sent “a lot” of weapons to Iranian protesters during unrest in January, President Donald Trump has told Fox News.
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[2026-04-06 22:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US sent “a lot” of weapons to Iranian protesters during unrest in the country in January, President Donald Trump has said.
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[2026-04-06 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The president has boasted about cutting prices of drugs, housing, food and gasoline. It’s grossly exaggerated nonsense
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[2026-04-06 21:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on the Iran war
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