{"id":208288,"date":"2026-04-20T09:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-oil-price-surges-again-as-iran-accuses-us-of-breaking-ceasefire-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:29:30","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-oil-price-surges-again-as-iran-accuses-us-of-breaking-ceasefire-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-oil-price-surges-again-as-iran-accuses-us-of-breaking-ceasefire-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Oil price surges again as Iran accuses US of breaking ceasefire – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tehran vowa to respond after USS Spruance fires on Iranian-flagged cargo ship allegedly running strait of Hormuz blockade. Key US politics stories from Sunday 19 April
America\u2019s benchmark oil contract West Texas Intermediate (WTI) surged late on Sunday after Iran accused the US of having broken a ceasefire in place since early April.
WTI crude was trading up 7.5% at $90.17 per barrel by 8pm ET, while international oil benchmark Brent North Sea crude gained 6.%5 to $96.27 per barrel.
Iran\u2019s military vowed to respond after the destroyer USS Spruance on Sunday fired on an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman that tried to evade the US naval blockade. The strait of Hormuz, a vital conduit for the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas, has been virtually closed since the start of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
The US military took custody of an Iranian-flagged container ship that attempted to get past an American blockade near the strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump announced on Sunday.
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Tehran is not currently planning to take part in new talks with the US, Iran state media reported on Sunday evening, hours after Donald Trump<\/a> said he was dispatching negotiators to Islamabad.
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Asked by Jake Tapper, the CNN State of the Union host, when he thought \u201cit\u2019s realistic for Americans to expect the gas will go back to under $3 a gallon\u201d, Chris Wright replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know. That could happen later this year. That might not happen until next year.\u201d
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Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, a long supporter of Trump and the ultraconservative Maga movement, condemned the president\u2019s attacks on the pope during a Fox News interview <\/em>on Saturday.<\/em>
\u201cI love the president like a taco,\u201d said Kennedy, using an odd turn of phrase. He added: \u201cI don\u2019t always agree with him, but I think he wants a better world. But I don\u2019t agree with him about this new holy war with the pope.\u201d
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Pope Leo XIV said on Saturday that it was \u201cnot in my interest at all\u201d to debate the US president, Donald Trump, about the Iran war, but that he would continue preaching the gospel message of peace.
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Analysis:<\/strong> Donald Trump\u2019s decision to send US officials to Islamabad<\/a> for further talks on Monday with Iran just 24 hours after Iran once again closed the strait of Hormuz<\/a> will signal to Tehran that the strategic waterway remains a bargaining asset beyond parallel.
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At least eight children were killed and two adults were wounded in a mass shooting in the Louisiana city of Shreveport<\/strong> in what police called a \u201cdomestic violence incident\u201d. A police department spokesperson said that the suspect killed seven of his own children<\/a> and wounded their mother, as well as killing another child.
Virginia\u2019s upcoming redistricting vote seems to have divided voters in the swing state<\/a><\/strong>, five months after they overwhelmingly elected<\/a> a Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, and gave her allies a sizable majority in the legislature\u2019s lower house.
A trail of damaged homes and buildings dotted a wide swath of the US over the weekend after a burst of destructive winds and reported tornadoes tore off roofs, uprooted trees and rendered rural roads impassable with debris<\/a><\/strong>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 18 April<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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