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Within hours of President Trump’s 1 Apr 2026 primetime speech declaring Iran “no longer a threat,” Tehran fired a new wave of missiles at Israel, Dubai and Bahrain on 2 Apr, underscoring its intact strike capability and its ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that has frozen 94 % of shipping traffic.
Chinese state owned media: Trump’s threat to “bomb Iran back to the Stone Ages” proves Washington is stoking the conflict and validates Tehran’s…
US mainstream media: Associated Press reports depict a widening war in which Iran keeps firing on Israel and Gulf states despite White Hou…
Indian national media: Indian outlets emphasise safeguarding freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, urging de-escalation and mu…
Read full analysis →Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed the IDF will stay inside southern Lebanon after current fighting, raze border villages, and block the return of 600,000-plus evacuees until it judges northern Israel secure.
After a five-day port stop, the carrier departed Split, Croatia, on 2-3 Apr 2026 with repairs complete, freeing it to rejoin Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
On 1 Apr 2026 President Trump said Tehran had asked for a truce but he will not stop U.S. strikes until Iran re-opens the now-blocked Strait of Hormuz, even as he readies a national address and hints the war could end within three weeks.
On 1 April 2026 the Supreme Court heard Trump v. Barbara and, in unusually pointed questioning, a majority of justices—while President Trump watched from the gallery—appeared poised to strike down his executive order revoking birth-on-soil citizenship for children of undocumented or temporary visitors.
On 1–2 April 2026, President Donald Trump publicly declared he is "absolutely" prepared to withdraw the United States from NATO because key European members refused to join U.S.–Israeli operations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war.
For the first time since launching Operation Epic Fury, President Trump fixed a firm two-to-three-week timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iran and will detail the exit in a prime-time speech on 1 April 2026 (21:00 ET).
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On 2 April 2026, President Trump invoked Section 232 to impose a tariff ladder that rises to 100 % on patented drug imports from companies without U.S. price-cut/onshoring deals and re-defined his existing 50 % metal tariffs to capture the full customs value of products.
On 2 Apr 2026, a televised Trump vow to intensify U.S. strikes on Iran for the next 2-3 weeks sent WTI crude above $110 (+≈11%) and inverted the usual Brent premium within hours.
On 1 April 2026, SpaceX secretly submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, teeing up a June float that seeks up to $75 billion in fresh capital at a valuation near $1.75 trillion.
On 1 April 2026 SpaceX lodged a confidential draft prospectus with the SEC, formally starting a record-shattering public listing expected as early as June.
On 1 April 2026, OpenAI closed a record $122 billion capital raise, instantly re-pricing the firm at $852 billion and allocating the proceeds to create a single "agent-first" superapp that merges ChatGPT, Codex, browsing and task-automation tools.
Between 31 Mar and 1 Apr 2026, Oracle emailed pink slips to roughly 30,000 staff—about 18 % of its payroll—to divert billions toward AI-centric data-centre expansion.
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On 1 April 2026 at 6:35 p.m. EDT NASA’s Space Launch System successfully launched the Orion capsule with four astronauts for a 10-day free-return loop around the Moon, inaugurating humanity’s first crewed deep-space mission in 53 years.
At 7:49 p.m. EDT on 3 April 2026, Orion’s 5-minute-plus engine burn pushed four astronauts out of Earth orbit on a 10-day free-return loop around the Moon—the first human departure from Earth orbit since 1972.
After months of technical delays, NASA confirmed final ‘go’ status and a two-hour window on 1 Apr 2026 (6:24-8:24 p.m. EDT) to send four astronauts on a 10-day, 685,000-mile loop around the Moon—the first human venture beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.
On 2 Apr 2026 a 7.4–7.6 under-sea earthquake off Ternate sent ≤0.75 m waves to five Indonesian coasts, killed one person, and led authorities to issue but cancel regional tsunami warnings within two hours.
Beginning 1 April 2026, Google is rolling out a feature that lets U.S. Gmail users replace the username portion of their @gmail.com address without creating a new account or losing any data.
On 1 April 2026, a cluster of company disclosures—from Nexscient’s $6.2 m Flipside AI takeover to Schneider Electric’s 100-use-case rollout—showed large firms are no longer experimenting with AI but embedding it deep into operations, even as regulators scramble to delay high-risk rules.
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