Iran Speech Takeaways, AI Election Ads & 'Godspeed, Artemis II' - Thursday, April 2, 2026
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The news to know for Thursday, April 2, 2026!
We'll recap President Trump's address to the nation last night — all about Iran.
And: why hundreds of thousands of immigrants could get their U.S. legal status back.
Plus: how A.I. video is being used to depict political opponents in campaign ads, what four NASA astronauts are up to now — as their historic mission to the moon is officially underway — and which candy and chocolate products are getting a recipe makeover.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, April 2nd. We'll recap President Trump's address to the nation last night all about Iran, |
| 0:05.9 | and why hundreds of thousands of immigrants could get their U.S. legal status back, plus how AI |
| 0:11.0 | video is being used to depict political opponents in campaign ads. What four NASA astronauts are up to |
| 0:17.1 | now as their historic mission to the moon is officially underway, and which candy and |
| 0:21.1 | chocolate products are getting a recipe makeover. Those stories and even more news to know next. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to The Newsworthy, all the day's news in less than 15 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks so much for being here. Let's do this. |
| 0:38.3 | For the first time since the war in Iran began more than a month ago, President Trump gave a national address, but he didn't make any revealing announcements. |
| 0:46.5 | Instead, he described the military action against Iran as an overwhelming success that was nearing completion, but not complete yet. |
| 0:54.0 | The president promised Iran would be hit |
| 0:55.7 | extremely hard in the coming weeks, but Trump also insisted this wasn't going to be a so-called |
| 1:00.7 | forever war. And he reminded Americans that this conflict has not been going on for nearly as long |
| 1:05.6 | as past ones, like the wars in Iraq or Vietnam. He also spoke directly to Iranian leaders, demanding they |
| 1:11.6 | negotiate an end to the war, or else lose all of their electric plants to American strikes. |
| 1:17.5 | It's still not clear what's going on with peace talk, since there have been a lot of mixed messages. |
| 1:22.2 | Trump said on social media yesterday that Iran's new regime president asked the U.S. for a ceasefire. |
| 1:28.7 | There are questions as to who exactly Trump is referring to. It's not believed to be Iran's new supreme leader who recently |
| 1:33.5 | took over for his father. Iran does also have a president, but he's not new. And yesterday, |
| 1:39.1 | that Iranian president published a long letter to the people of the U.S., basically saying |
| 1:43.7 | Americans are being |
| 1:44.5 | lied to and that Iran is not choosing aggression. |
| 1:47.9 | Officially, Iran still denies any formal talks are even happening. |
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