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WSJ Minute Briefing

Lebanon Strikes Emerge as Major Hurdle for U.S. and Iran Peace Deal

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Disney’s new CEO starts slashing jobs. And a setback for Anthropic in its legal fight with the Pentagon. Daniel Bach hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.

0:04.5

We're having a baby.

0:05.5

We're having a baby.

0:07.2

I've always wanted to be mom.

0:09.4

And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.

0:12.4

I have no idea what we're doing.

0:13.6

Thank you. I have more of an idea.

0:15.6

I think of it like a Tamagocchi.

0:17.8

At the end of all of this...

0:20.0

We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series,

0:25.0

streaming exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.

0:32.1

Here's your morning brief for Thursday, April 9th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

0:41.8

Oil prices have shone back up as shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains choked off amid the tentative ceasefire with Iran.

0:45.1

Tehran has also said it will start charging tolls.

0:48.5

President Trump said in a social media post that U.S. military personnel and assets

0:52.7

will remain near Iran until the, quote,

0:55.2

real agreement reached is fully complied with, including the full reopening of the waterway.

1:00.6

Iranian media said oil tanker traffic was halted after Israel hit Lebanon with fresh

1:05.5

airstrikes yesterday, killing more than 250 people.

1:10.0

Tehran has said it will only participate in planned peace negotiations in Pakistan this weekend.

1:15.1

If there is a pause in Israel's conflict with Hezbollah, something the White House has said isn't part of the ceasefire.

1:21.7

We are exclusively reporting that Disney plans to lay off as many as a thousand employees in the coming weeks, mainly from its marketing department.

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