{"id":208522,"date":"2026-04-22T07:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-trump-backs-off-threat-to-resume-bombing-iran-and-extends-ceasefire-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:53:32","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-trump-backs-off-threat-to-resume-bombing-iran-and-extends-ceasefire-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-trump-backs-off-threat-to-resume-bombing-iran-and-extends-ceasefire-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Trump backs off threat to resume bombing Iran and extends ceasefire – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

President changed his tune at request of Pakistan\u2019s leaders, though he said military blockade of Iranian ports will continue
Donald Trump unilaterally announced an extension of the two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday amid frantic efforts to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table.
Hours after announcing that he \u201cexpected to be bombing\u201d, the US president said he would extend the ceasefire until Iranian negotiators submitted a proposal for peace.
\u201cBased on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan<\/a>, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal,\u201d he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The president had earlier told the US business news network CNBC that he did not want to extend the ceasefire with Tehran, insisting the US was in a strong position and was \u201cgoing to end up with a great deal\u201d. Trump has previously said that targets for new US attacks would include power stations and other civilian infrastructure.
The declaration came in a topsy-turvy day in which an expected trip to Islamabad by JD Vance, the vice-president, had been put on hold and Trump ramped up his bellicose rhetoric, saying the US military<\/a> was \u201craring to go\u201d.
Trump\u2019s sharp about-turn drew a withering early response from Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament who has emerged as the Islamic regime\u2019s lead negotiator in recent talks.
Ghalibaf\u2019s personal adviser dismissed the ceasefire extension as \u201ca ploy to buy time for a surprise strike\u201d, adding that \u201cthe time for Iran to take the initiative has come\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Voters in Virginia on Tuesday approved new congressional maps intended to boost Democrats\u2019 chances of retaking the House of Representatives<\/a>, in the latest blow to Donald Trump\u2019s effort to use mid-decade redistricting to preserve his control of Congress.
The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state\u2019s congressional maps<\/a> in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s nominee for US Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh<\/a>, faced a tumultuous hearing in Washington on Tuesday, fielding scrutiny over his wealth and his ability to operate independently of the president who appointed him.
Should he be confirmed, Warsh will hold one of the most powerful roles in the US federal government, with massive influence over the global economy and the ability to move markets.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the prominent civil rights organization, has been indicted on federal fraud charges related to past payments it made to confidential informants to infiltrate extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, the justice department has announced.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
In a video statement<\/a> posted to social media, defense secretary Pete Hegseth described the mandate as \u201coverly broad\u201d and \u201cnot rational\u201d and the decision to drop the vaccine requirement as \u201cseizing this moment to discard any absurd overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Tucker Carlson<\/a>, a conservative podcaster, has said he is \u201ctormented\u201d by his support of Donald Trump<\/a>, issuing in an extraordinary mea culpa that called for \u201ca moment to wrestle with our own consciences\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration<\/a> is in discussions to potentially send up to 1,100 Afghans who helped US forces during the war in Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a non-profit confirmed on Tuesday.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Democratic US representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick said she is resigning effective immediately, after a House committee found she violated ethics rules<\/a><\/strong>. The panel was set to issue its recommended punishment for the Florida<\/a> representative on Tuesday.
Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, a US appeals court ruled Tuesday<\/a><\/strong> in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into schools.
Mexico has launched an investigation into a possible breach of its constitution as it was reported that two US embassy officials who died in a car crash while returning from a raid on a drug lab with local officials in the border state of Chihuahua were CIA operatives<\/a><\/strong>.
Florida<\/a>\u2019s top prosecutor is to launch a criminal investigation into how the tech company OpenAI and its software tool ChatGPT may influence users\u2019 threats of harm to themselves or others<\/a><\/strong>, including whether it \u201coffered significant advice\u201d to a gunman accused of conducting a mass shooting in the state<\/a> last year.
North Carolina<\/a> authorities say they are pursuing criminal charges against adults who allegedly \u201cstood by\u201d a scheduled fight among teenagers that led to a mass shooting<\/a><\/strong> that killed two people and wounded five others on Monday.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 20 April<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President changed his tune at request of Pakistan\u2019s leaders, though he said military blockade of Iranian ports will continueDonald Trump unilaterally announced an extension of the two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday amid frantic efforts to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table.Hours after announcing that he \u201cexpected to be bombing\u201d, the US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}