Live Updates: Only a day after threatening that Iran would be "getting blown up" unless the regime signed a U.S.-backed deal, the president on Monday said he's in no rush to reach an agreement with Tehran. cbsn.ws/4tTy423

Trump said Friday that the Strait of Hormuz situation was "over." It very obviously wasn't. Trump said Friday that Iran agreed "to never close the Strait of Hormuz again.” The next day, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again. Trump said yesterday that Vance isn't going to

A celebrity influencer’s direct warning to Vladimir Putin that his people might “snap” pprompts a rare acknowledgment of public criticism from the Kremlin. nbcnews.com/world/russia/p…

Important details on the ship that the US interdicted when it was trying to break the US blockade

Trump on CNBC this morning: “It is regime change, no matter what you want to call it, which is not something I said I was going to do, but I've done it, indirectly maybe, but I've done it."

Trump on dropping the DOJ probe: “We have to find out” why the Fed spent so much money on the building renovation. Kernen tried (repeatedly) to give him a way to say he’d drop the probe to get Warsh in and Trump is talking about how maybe “Too Late” [Powell] is stealing money.

CNBC anchor Joe Kernen correctly tells President Trump that there were big price increases under Joe Biden but "by the time he was leaving, it was down to about where it is now, about 3%." Trump lies: "No it wasn't. It was down to 5%, it wasn't down to 3%." Trump then says he's

Why is Oil muted? Some manipulation? Sure. But it also may be in parallel pricing Hormuz shortages and significant demand destruction from economic hit ahead. At the same time stocks naively think that muted Oil means situation has been resolved as often advertised by lies.

FBI investigating deaths and disappearances of staff at secretive government laboratories. Here's what we know. cbsn.ws/4u0X5IQ

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

CNBC correctly told Trump that inflation had come down to about 3% when Biden was leaving office. Trump falsely responded: "No it wasn't. It was down to 5%, it wasn't down to 3%." Inflation was 3.0% in the month of Trump's inauguration, January 2025. It hadn't been close to 5%

When trade declines and the US fiscal deficit expands (as in recessions) there’s *automatically* not enough bond demand. If deflationary, the gap is plugged by domestics, funded out of stocks. If inflationary, not only does the gap not close, but CB printing is also constrained.

" ... the military instituted its first vaccination program in 1777 when Gen. George Washington directed the inoculation of the Continental Army to protect personnel from smallpox."

Investors with concentrated, appreciated stock positions are being pitched long/short direct indexing programs as a way to diversify without paying capital gains tax. We built a simulation to test whether the economics and found that in a typical case, fees eat up more than

"If the president is worried about high fertilizer prices, he might want to have a conversation with his top trade official... [who] lobbied for policies that limited fertilizer imports and drove up prices for American farmers." Drain. The. Swamp. reason.com/2026/04/21/the…

BREAKING: A federal grand jury in Alabama charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with 11 counts of wire and bank fraud-related charges, the Justice Department announced, accusing the group of paying members of extremist groups as part of its efforts to investigate them.

REPORTER: I just want to make sure I understand. You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups? BLANCHE: I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that

SCOOP: President Trump's decision to suspend a controversial maritime law during the Iran war has made it easier to ship oil across the U.S. — and now he wants to keep it that way, according to American officials. trib.al/Jas1GQk

BREAKING: Virginia voters have approved a Democratic redistricting plan that could allow the party to pick up as many as four new seats in the midterm elections, NBC News projects. nbcnews.com/politics/2026-…

Why President Trump extended his ceasefire with Iran after huddling with his top national security aides today. Our latest reporting from the CNN team: cnn.com/2026/04/21/pol…