US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he does not want a ceasefire in the ongoing war with Iran. He also said that the Strait of Hormuz will open on its own when the time comes and it would be good if China joins it.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said that a lot of help is needed to get safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. It would be good if countries like China and Japan join this.
‘Don’t want ceasefire’ Amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, Trump ruled out a ceasefire, saying, “Look, we can negotiate but I don’t want a ceasefire. You know, there is no ceasefire when you are completely destroying the other side.”
Will Israel be ready to end the war? When asked whether Israel would be ready to end the war once the US completed military action, Trump said, “I think so.” The US President criticized Britain and said that it should have acted faster in providing support in military action against Iran.
Trump once again targeted members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and their military allies, including China, for refusing to help open the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz transports about one-fifth of global oil and natural gas flows.
What did you say about China and Japan? The US President said about Hormuz, “NATO can help us, but they have not yet shown the courage to do so. Talking about the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said on Friday that there will come a time when it will open on its own. He also said that a lot of help is needed for safe passage through Hormuz and it would be good if countries like China and Japan join it.
Since the beginning of the war, the Iranian military has completely surrounded the Strait of Hormuz, which has severely affected maritime traffic and has led to a huge increase in energy prices globally.
Has President Trump just given the biggest indication yet that he’s done with this war in Iran?
There’ve been a flurry of overnight developments.
The caveat, up front, is that this is a president who changes his mind and has delivered very mixed messages in recent weeks. He also sees real value in saying one thing and doing the opposite. He bluffs.
That said, his language is more definitive than before. It feels more than ever like an “off-ramp” from his “Iranexcursion” as he calls it.
First, on the White House south lawn, he told us: “Oh, I think we’ve won. We’ve knocked out their navy, their air force. We’ve knocked out their anti-aircraft. We’ve knocked out everything. We’re roaming free.”
He followed that with: “We want victory… and that’s what we’ve got.”
As ever the messaging was somewhat mixed. “Well, look,” he said: “… I don’t want to do a ceasefire. You know, you don’t do a ceasefire when you’re literally obliterating the other side.”
But then an hour later, from the air, on Air Force One he delivered the clearest indication yet, via his Truth Social account, that he’s keen to wind down the conflict.
Does he really think he’s achieved all the war aims, or is he now properly spooked by the global economic consequences the war has caused?
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List of accomplishments
On Truth Social he said: “We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran.”
Then he lists the accomplishments as he sees them:
“(1) Completely degrading Iranian Missile Capability, Launchers, and everything else pertaining to them.
“(2) Destroying Iran’s Defense Industrial Base.
“(3) Eliminating their Navy and Air Force, including Anti Aircraft Weaponry.
“(4) Never allowing Iran to get even close to Nuclear Capability, and always being in a position where the U.S.A. can quickly and powerfully react to such a situation, should it take place.
“(5) Protecting, at the highest level, our Middle Eastern Allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others.”
I’ll get to his kicker for his allies in a moment but a thought on those points above first.
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The nuclear material is still in Iran
The first three points amount to the comprehensive destruction of Iran’s military – that may well be accurate given how intense the American and Israeli bombing has been over three weeks.
But point four – “Iran is now not even close to nuclear capability”?
Well it’s almost certainly been knocked back years, but the nuclear material – near weapons grade, remember – that’s still somewhere in Iran.
And, of course, for now at least the regime remains in place: more defiant, more aggrieved, more intent on revenge.
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Danger of retaliation is huge
The danger of low-level, prolonged, dangerous and disruptive asymmetrical retaliation is huge. The Iranian regime, as President Trump reminds us, was the global sponsor and exporter of terror. Its sleeper cells are sophisticated. It’s a huge challenge for intelligence agencies.
Finally – the kicker in his statement.
“The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it – The United States does not! If asked, we will help these Countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn’t be necessary once Iran’s threat is eradicated.”
Put simply – he’s saying: “Sorry folks – not America’s problem. We broke the global energy market. You need to fix it.”
He adds that it will be easy to fix. No one else anywhere is claiming that, by the way.
So what next? Well, let’s see how what’s left of the Iranian government responds to this apparent shift by President Trump.
Remember too that this is a president who shifts, changes, and contradicts his own statements all the time.
To underline that, thousands more American troops are already on the way to the region.
Boxer Tyson Fury and his father do not appear to have a close — or even friendly — relationship, at least according to the elder Fury’s latest public comments.
“My relationship with Tyson is destroyed,” John said during an appearance on Playbook Boxing. The claim marks a stark contrast to the time when John served as a mentor to his son.
John said the rift between father and son stems from Tyson’s decision to fight Oleksandr Usyk twice. He also cited Tyson’s setback against Deontay Wilder after urging him to decline those bouts.
John Fury and Tyson Fury react during a news conference ahead of the Tyson Fury-Francis Ngannou boxing match at Boulevard Hall Oct. 26, 2023, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)
“I begged and prayed with him before the first fight,” John said. “He’d already been through a full training camp, and then he got cut in the last week. He was worn out from that camp. You can’t just have three weeks rest and then go straight into another seven weeks. That’s what happened.”
“The Gypsy King” lost back-to-back bouts to Usyk. He lost via split decision in the first meeting and via unanimous decision in the rematch.
“Hi everybody, I’m going to make this short and sweet. I’d like to announce my retirement from boxing,” Fury said at the time. “It’s been a blast, I’ve loved every single minute of it, and I’m going to end with this: Dick Turpin wore a mask. God bless everybody, see you on the other side.”
In January, Fury announced plans to come out of retirement and return to boxing in 2026, but his father believes his best days are behind him.
John Fury, father of Tyson Fury, before the Tyson Fury-Arslanbek Makhmudov news conference at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Feb. 16, 2026, in London.(Harry Murphy/Getty Images)
“I think he’s past his best,” John said. “I’m a no-filter kind of guy — I say it how I see it. I love him, but there are too many people patting him on the back and telling him things that aren’t true, building him up like he’s invincible. He’s not, and he hasn’t been for a while.
Tyson Fury in the stands at the O2 arena in London Oct. 25, 2025.(Steven Paston/PA Images via Getty Images)
“I felt like strangling Sugar afterwards,” John said in reference to the meetings with Usyk. “He’s no Emanuel Steward — he’s nothing like him. He’s just a gym sweeper. That’s all he ever was.”
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Hurt by the restrictions imposed on his girlfriend by his family members, the young man committed suicide by hanging himself. On getting information about the death, the family members of the young man started crying bitterly. The young man used to work in a private job in Uttarakhand. The family members have cremated the body without any police action.
CNBC’s Sara Eisen clashed with the co-hosts of “The View Friday, arguing President Donald Trump’s military operation in Iran will keep future generations of Americans safe, but her co-hosts were unconvinced.
Eisen, who was serving as a guest co-host, argued that a case could be made for toppling Iran, saying, “It is a strategic opportunity so that our children do not have to face the greatest state sponsor of terror being a nuclear power.”
“When they get a nuclear weapon, and they threaten our ally, Israel, or Eastern Europe, then it’s too late,” she warned.
“So you feel safer today?” “View” co-host Ana Navarro asked.
Eisen argued that she indeed felt safer knowing that America is working to prevent the rise of a potential nuclear threat. Co-host Sara Haines, while sympathetic to her perspective, argued that the past has lessons that should be heeded.
Ana Navarro blasted President Trump, arguing he has made a dire miscalculation by taking military action in Iran. ((Photo by Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images))
“I agree with all the points you just made. My fear going in, although I could see taking out the leadership in Iran was a good thing, was what is — how do we get out?” she asked. “Because we have watched this in Iraq. We watched what happened.”
Haines went on to argue that Iran would not only be a uniquely dangerous territory to invade, but an impossible war due to the succession of Iranian leadership. (The Trump administration has said much of Iran’s leadership has been killed in strikes during Operation Epic Fury.)
Haines also noted that there is a particularly extreme culture in Iran among its leadership, to the point where it specifically “honors death” in that Iranian regime loyalists believe martyrdom against the enemy grants an eternal reward in the afterlife. This, she argued, has no equivalent in America.
When Eisen claimed Trump is indeed aware that the American public has no desire for another long-term ground war, co-host Sunny Hostin jokingly quipped, “You think he has a plan or the ‘concepts of a plan?’”
Sara Eisen has locked horns with her co-hosts numerous times as she has defended President Donald Trump’s administration.(Daniel Zuchnik/Sportico via Getty Images)
“I believe that they have more than you guys give them credit for,” Eisen replied, citing multiple strategic goals they have laid out.
Navarro later went on to argue that Trump has made a grave miscalculation with Iran.
“Frankly, I think — I think Trump has what a friend of mine called ‘Venezuela derangement syndrome,’ and he thought getting rid of the regime and finding people to work with in Iran was going to be as easy as it was in Venezuela, and it’s proven to be a completely different ball of wax,” Navarro said.
White House spokeswoman, Olivia Wales, told Fox News Digital that Trump had four distinct goals concerning Operation Epic Fury.
“The Trump-Deranged wackos on The View have no talent and a very poorly rated TV show,” Wales said. “President Trump launched Operation Epic Fury with four distinct goals: Destroy the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile and production capacity, annihilate the Iranian regime’s Navy, end their ability to arm proxies, and guarantee that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon. The United States Military is meeting or exceeding all of its benchmarks, and the president’s decisive action is quickly eliminating short- and long-term threats to the United States and our allies.”
The first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the entire 1,400-year history of the job says she feels “immense privilege” ahead of her official enthronement.
The ceremony on Wednesday will see Dame Sarah Mullally take the Church of England’s top ministry as the 106th person to fill the role.
More than 2,000 people are expected to attend, including Prince William and faith leaders from around the world.
But no specific safety measures are planned for the event at Canterbury Cathedral despite a meningitis outbreak in Kent.
Image:Students queue for antibiotics at the University of Kent in Canterbury amid a meningitis outbreak. Pic: PA
In a statement earlier this week, Dame Sarah offered her thoughts and prayers to the families of two young people killed in the outbreak.
She was named to the role last October and confirmed in it by a ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral in January, but Wednesday will mark the symbolic start of her tenure.
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Speaking ahead of the event, she said: “To be welcomed into the city and diocese of Canterbury is an immense privilege.
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“I am grateful to be sharing in this moment with people of all ages and backgrounds from across the Church of England, the Anglican Communion, our nation and the world.
“Our world today needs the love, healing and hope that we find in Jesus Christ. I continue to pray that we renew our confidence in this good news, and recommit ourselves to sharing the joy of the Gospel.”
Image:Dame Sarah Mullally on the Millennium Bridge setting off on her pilgrimage to Canterbury. Pic: PA
The Dean of Canterbury, Very Reverend David Monteith, said the first female archbishop “would have almost been unimaginable even 50 years ago”.
He added: “Today matters. As we combine centuries of tradition in this ancient service with those elements unique to Sarah’s ministry, we welcome her to our Cathedral and diocese, and pray for her as she takes on the role of Archbishop of Canterbury.”
At the ceremony, Prince William will deputise for his father, King Charles, who is supreme governor of the Church of England.
The service will feature a mandate from the King giving instruction to install Dame Sarah as archbishop.
A representative of the Holy See will represent the Pope at the event, and the Archbishop of Westminster, who leads Catholics in England and Wales, will give a reading.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will also attend, along with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.
A pilot with decades of experience flying, thinks he may have found an image of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane via Google Earth.
Justin Myers told Popular Mechanics recently that he began looking through satellite images of Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific after watching a documentary on her final flight.
“To be totally honest, my interest started after watching a documentary on the National Geographic Channel. It was the next day when curiosity about Nikumaroro Island took me to looking on Google Earth.”
When first looking at images of Nikumaroro, an uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific, Myers said he wasn’t trying to find the Lockheed Electra 10E. “I was just putting myself in Amelia and [her navigator] Fred’s shoes.”
But then he tried to imagine, as a pilot, “where I would have force landed a light twin aircraft in their position, lost and low on fuel.”
Once he zoomed into an area that he thought they might have tried to land, he noticed a “dark-coloured, perfectly straight object” that measured approximately 39 feet, the same as Earhart’s plane.
“I used the measuring tool on Google Earth and to my surprise and mild little shiver it measured approximately 39 ft,” he wrote in a blog post.
“It looked man-made,” he told Popular Mechanics. “It looked like a section of aircraft fuselage, that was remarkable by itself, let alone the possibility it was Electra 10E NR16020, even though the measurements looked the same.”
Pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, with a map of the Pacific that shows the planned route of their last flight.(Getty)
Earhart was attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in 1937 when she and her navigator lost radio contact on July 2 while attempting to land on Howland Island in the Pacific, north of Nikumaroro.
Neither the pair nor their plane have ever been found, sparking nearly a century of professional and amateur investigators to attempt to figure out what happened to them.
Myers said as he continued to look at the satellite imagery, he thought he saw more plane debris, thinking he might have gotten lucky with his sighting.
“There was an element of luck in spotting that aircraft debris, as Mother Nature had revealed what had been buried on the reef for a long time,” he said. “I managed to catch some photos before being covered over again by passing weather systems.”
Myers wrote in his blog that he attempted to contact several agencies with his findings, but was largely ignored.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the island wasn’t their jurisdiction, so he filed a report with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau but never heard anything back.
Earhart’s Lockheed Electra in March 1937.(Getty)
He also contacted Purdue University in California but never heard anything, and contacted an expedition company in the state, but said he hasn’t heard back from them in a while.
Myers is hardly the first person to believe they figured out the mystery of the aviators’ disappearance.
Last year, Purdue announced its own expedition to research the Taraia Object, a visual anomaly also on Nikumaroro that some think could be the plane’s wreckage.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery also believes that Nikumaroro is where Earhart went down, based on a huge body of evidence and a dozen visits to the island between 1989 and 2019, according to Archaeologychannel.org.
Tony Romeo, a former Air Force intelligence officer and CEO of Deep Sea Vision, made news a couple of years ago after sonar images from a 2023 expedition showed what looked like a plane on the seafloor near Howland.
Google maps imagery of Nikumaroro Island. (Google Maps)
But it was soon discovered to just be a natural rock formation with plane-like features.
Still, that hasn’t deterred Myers in his findings.
“The bottom line is from my interests from a child in vintage aircraft and air crash investigation, I can say that is what was once a 12-metre, 2-engine vintage aircraft,” he told Popular Mechanics, while adding the caveat that he’s not sure it’s Earhart’s.
And even if it’s not the famed pilot’s plane, “then it’s the answer to another mystery that has never been answered. This finding could answer some questions to someone who disappeared many years ago.”
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The New York Times is touting a victory after a federal judge ruled against the Pentagon’s press access policy implemented last year.
US District Judge Paul Friedman of Washington, DC, slapped down a policy requiring journalists to agree to specific conditions in order to be granted access to the Pentagon, something the Times argued violated its First Amendment and Fifth Amendment rights.
“The record evidence supports the conclusion that the Policy discriminates not based on political viewpoint but rather based on editorial viewpoint—that is, whether the individual or organization is willing to publish only stories that are favorable to or spoon-fed by Department leadership,” Friedman ruled.
Friedman continued, “The undisputed evidence reflects the Policy’s true purpose and practical effect: to weed out disfavored journalists—those who were not, in the Department’s view, ‘on board and willing to serve’—and replace them with news entities that are. That is viewpoint discrimination, full stop… The Policy thus violates the First Amendment.”
A federal judge struck down the Pentagon’s policy under Secretary of War Pete Hegseth restricting press access.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images )
The judge also wrote the policy violates the Fifth Amendment, writing, “the Policy fails to provide fair notice of what routine, lawful journalistic practices will result in the denial, suspension, or revocation of a PFAC.”
“The Policy on its face makes any newsgathering and reporting not blessed by the Department a potential basis for the denial, suspension, or revocation of a journalist’s PFAC. It provides no way for journalists to know how they may do their jobs without losing their credentials. The Policy therefore is vague in violation of the Fifth Amendment,” Friedman ruled.
The New York Times was pleased with the judge’s decision.
“The New York Times welcomes today’s ruling, which enforces the constitutionally protected rights for the free press in this country,” Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander told Fox News Digital.
Stadtlander added, “Americans deserve visibility into how their government is being run, and the actions the military is taking in their name and with their tax dollars. Today’s ruling reaffirms the right of The Times and other independent media to continue to ask questions on the public’s behalf.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell responded to the ruling, writing on X, “We disagree with the decision and are pursuing an immediate appeal.”
The New York Times sparked intense debate on social media on Monday over a piece headlined, “Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price.”(Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The Times’ lawsuit said the policy gave the Pentagon “standardless discretion” to punish reporters without due process by revoking their press badges based on the policy’s “incurably vague language” on how they go about their newsgathering. The Times also alleged viewpoint discrimination, pointing to several reporters and outlets who were invited to Tuesday’s press briefing after having signed the Pentagon’s pledge and are outspoken supporters of President Donald Trump.
Many news organizations pushed back against the policy when it was first implemented in October.
“[W]e join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press,” ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FOX News Media and NBC News previously said in a joint statement.
The Pentagon implemented a policy last fall requiring journalists to adhere to their terms or else be banned from the building. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images))
