Israel-Lebanon Peace Talks Risks New Rift With Hezbollah
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it. |
| 0:05.0 | Infliction is killing me! |
| 0:08.0 | But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits! |
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| 0:15.0 | See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. |
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| 0:38.8 | Here is your morning brief for Friday, April 17th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:48.5 | A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon remains in effect this morning, with a number of world leaders commending President Trump for his role in mediating the truce. |
| 0:55.2 | A U.S. proposal for direct talks between Israel and Lebanon would sideline Hezbollah, though, meaning that any peace agreement could be on shaky ground. Iran had insisted that strikes on Lebanon must stop as part of |
| 1:01.8 | any peace deal with the U.S. and Israel. Trump also said that the U.S. might hold discussions |
| 1:07.2 | with Iran this weekend. Well, back in Washington, House Republicans have broken with President Trump on a pair of measures, |
| 1:13.9 | blocking a longer-term renewal of a powerful national security surveillance program and voting |
| 1:18.9 | to reinstate temporary legal protections for Haitian immigrants. |
| 1:23.0 | Yesterday, 11 Republicans joined Democrats to extend TPS protections for roughly 350,000 Haitians for another three years. |
| 1:31.2 | And hours later, a number of holdout Republicans voted against a five-year renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, |
| 1:38.0 | which enables the collection of information on foreigners overseas who use U.S. communication systems. |
| 1:47.6 | And America's busiest airport won't be as busy as United and American Airlines were hoping for this summer. That's after the Federal |
| 1:52.6 | Aviation Administration said it would allow almost 400 fewer flights than the airlines have |
| 1:57.3 | scheduled at Chicago O'Hare, undercutting a fight between the rivals to book |
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