Oil prices jump after Strait of Hormuz setbacks  Axios Oil prices rise after Iran restricts access to Strait of Hormuz and ceasefire nears expiration  CNN Trump news… [more]

What to know about tariff refund site that’s set to go live Monday  Axios This tariff-refund portal is about to be America’s hottest website  NPR Businesses can… [more]

Canada’s prime minister says economic ties with US are a weakness that must be corrected  Politico Carney says Canada’s US ties have become a weakness  Reuters Canadian… [more]

Louisiana man kills 7 of his children, another child in mass shooting  Al Jazeera Names of eight Shreveport shooting victims released; gunman identified  Shreveport Times Louisiana Man… [more]

2 U.S. Embassy staffers, 2 Mexican law enforcement officials die in accident in Chihuahua  NBC News 2 US Embassy trainers and 2 Mexican agents die in… [more]

North Korea again tests cluster munitions in a launch observed by Kim and his daughter  AP NewsView Full Coverage on Google News

US military seized Iranian-flagged container ship, Trump says  The Guardian Iran war live: Tehran slams US ‘piracy’ after ship seizure, vows response  Al Jazeera Middle East crisis… [more]

‘We’re Catholic first’: Sunday mass attendees weigh in on Trump’s feud with Pope Leo  The Guardian Pope Leo’s target is bigger than Trump. He’s rebuking the… [more]

Opening Hormuz is the easy part. Restoring oil flows isn’t  Reuters Reopening Strait of Hormuz Would Ease Oil Crisis but Only So Much  The New York Times… [more]

Iran Update Special Report, April 19, 2026  Institute for the Study of War IDF map shows its advance into southern Lebanon – as it happened  The Guardian… [more]