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Apr 7, 2026 - World

Just hours before President Donald Trump's deadline for ending the civilization in Iran, the country was organizing human shields at power plants on the U.S. targeting list.This week, Iran's Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Alireza Rahimi, called on Iranians to form human chains at power plants at 2:30 p.m. local time.Trump has extended his initial deadlines on targeting Iran's civilian infrastructure multiple times. His latest deadline was set for 8 p.m. ET."A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump warned on Tuesday in a Truth Social post. Critics have accused the U.S. president of threatening war crimes.By Tuesday afternoon, groups of Iranians were seen in a video surrounding the Kazeroun power plant.

Apr 7, 2026 - World

US vice-president claims ‘the bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary’ … and here they are!JD Vance and Usha Vance off the Air Force Two, welcomed by Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó as they begin their two-day trip to the Hungarian capital. Continue reading...

Apr 7, 2026 - World

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has asked a court to halt the separatist push, arguing it would violate their treaty rightsA First Nation in Alberta has said that a separatist push for the province to secede from Canada is “consummately irresponsible and dishonourable” and should be shut down, arguing in court that a proposed referendum would violate their treaty rights.A minority of residents of the oil-rich province have long argued that the province’s woes are due to the structure of payments to the federal government and a perceived inability to get their vast fossil fuel reserves to market. Continue reading...

Apr 7, 2026 - World

MAGA influencers Steve Bannon and Eric Bolling warned that Democrats would "rain hell down" if President Donald Trump's war in Iran leads to defeat for Republicans in the midterm elections.During his Tuesday War Room podcast, Bannon cautioned that it could be "one of those days" after Trump threatened to destroy Iran's civilization in a single night."I think today is a day of hold your breath, so to speak," Bolling agreed. "Certainly in the oil market, the financial markets, and the humanitarian market, quote-unquote markets as well. All eyes are looking straight at 8 o'clock.""Let's rip the freaking band-aid off already and do it and deal with the fallout now, or don't do it and deal with backtracking," he continued. "And then hopefully, again, Steve, I've said this a long time. Hopefully, he gets this over real fast and then just really, really pumps the crap out of oil and gets that price back down to a level that it doesn't hurt us in the midterms.""Midterms, I keep circling it. It's going to be a thing. People are saying, oh, this is bigger than midterms. Tell me that November 7th, when, you know, if there's a sweep, a blue wave, and we're going back to days of wokeism."Bannon suggested that Democrats taking control of Congress would be worse than Bolling had imagined."It'll be so much worse than that," he said. "It'll be the moral equivalent of what President Trump is warning the Iranians about right now. The Democrats will immediately impeach him, but that won't come for a year and a half, and every day will be hell.""They'll rain hell down [on] the White House because these guys are Marxist jihadists, out of control."

Apr 7, 2026 - World

Economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warned that President Donald Trump's serious threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight" in his latest escalation of the Iran war would lead to lasting damage for the United States. In his Substack on Tuesday, Krugman suggested "the civilization we destroy may be our own" and that Trump had made a major admission with his comments. He called it America's "darkest hour" yet."Not going to be a problem if we ever do get the war crimes trial that all of this deserves. A statement of motive, intent is completely clear," Krugman wrote, describing how Trump's words could be used to prosecute him in the future if he does what he has threatened to do. He also argued that Trump administration officials and military service members should be ready to make a decision. "First of all, any military commander given orders to start destroying civilian infrastructure in Iran should disobey that order, should say it, should not even quietly resign," Krugman wrote. "This is a time to stand up and make it clear that this is totally unacceptable. This is a violation of everything that the military stands for. It’s a violation of everything that America stands for.""Second, any member of the Trump administration: to continue in your position doing your job as Trump takes America on the course of becoming a criminal nation, a criminal terrorist nation, you cannot continue in good conscience," he added.Krugman suggested that Trump's ultimatum has left only questions. "Damned if I know what’s going to happen," Krugman wrote. "I mean, at some level, I think that the civilization that may be destroyed tonight is our own. I mean, are we civilized if we do this kind of thing? If America as a nation doesn’t stand up against this, what are we?""So, God help us. Normal life will continue. It’s going to be a really weird thing to be out there, you know, grocery shopping and taking the subway and all of those things. But this is, in a way, the defining moment. The fate of the whole American idea is on the line. I have no idea how this ends."