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The 7

Deadline day for Iran; emotional Artemis II moment; super El Niño; and more

The 7

The Washington Post

News, Daily News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Tuesday briefing: Iran deadline; Artemis II mission; super El Niño; March Madness; ‘Relax Row’; and more


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0:00.0

The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.

0:06.8

President Donald Trump set a deadline of tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

0:15.6

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Tuesday, April 7th. Let's get you caught up

0:23.3

with today's seven stories. President Trump yesterday renewed his threat to destroy Iranian bridges

0:32.9

and power plants if the country doesn't agree to reopen the critical waterway. Its closure during this war

0:40.5

has caused oil prices to spike. Iran has refused to back down in the face of Trump's threats

0:46.7

and reasserted its rejection of U.S. demands yesterday. Nevertheless, Trump again claimed that Iran and

0:53.8

the U.S. are in active negotiations

0:55.8

over a deal to end the war. In a press briefing, Trump also threatened to jail reporters if they

1:02.7

did not turn over the name of an anonymous source who revealed details about a U.S. airmen

1:07.9

who went missing in Iran. So whoever it was, we think we'll be able to find it out

1:12.4

because we're going to go to the media company

1:15.8

that released it, and we're going to say,

1:19.6

national security, give it up, or go to jail.

1:22.3

Trump did not name what specific reporter

1:24.8

or news organization he was talking about.

1:30.5

The crew of Artemis II has now flown farther than any humans from Earth.

1:36.7

That's our second story.

1:39.1

Just before 2 p.m. Eastern yesterday, four astronauts broke a record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. If that mission

1:47.5

doesn't ring a bell, you can learn all about it from the 1995 classic film starring Tom Hanks.

1:53.4

Anyway, the Artemis astronauts reached a farthest point of 252,756 miles from Earth behind the far side of the moon.

2:03.6

While they were back there, they got to observe lunar landscapes that no human has seen before.

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