President Trump Says the U.S. Will Extend the Iran Cease-Fire
WSJ What’s News
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:33.5 | President Trump announces that the U.S. will extend a ceasefire with Iran that was going to expire tomorrow. |
| 0:39.6 | Plus, senators volley tough questions at Kevin Warsh, President Trump's pick for the next Fed chair during his confirmation hearing. |
| 0:46.4 | And why the energy shock is going to hit electricity bills in Hawaii and Alaska. |
| 0:51.0 | Essentially, they are very exposed to that international price of oil. So the utilities |
| 0:56.6 | right now that are purchasing oil or paying higher prices for it, and then that gets passed along. |
| 1:03.0 | It's Tuesday, April 21st. I'm Alex O'Sulloch for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition |
| 1:08.8 | of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that |
| 1:12.3 | move the world today. |
| 1:19.9 | Kevin Warsh, President Trump's nominee for Federal Reserve Chair, testified in front of the |
| 1:24.8 | Senate Banking Committee today. During the two-and-a-half-hour session, |
| 1:28.4 | Senators grilled Warsh about his financial assets, as well as how he plans to preserve the |
| 1:32.7 | independence of the Fed. For more on the hearing and what happens next, I'm joined by WSJ |
| 1:37.7 | economics reporter, Matt Grossman. Matt, senators asked Warsh a lot of different questions, but one |
| 1:43.6 | topic that kept coming up was his relationship with President Trump, like in this exchange between Warsh and Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren. |
| 1:51.8 | In our meeting, you said you would be independent because you're, quote, a tough guy. Those were your words, tough guy. And you will be able to stand up to President Trump. |
| 2:01.6 | So let's try it again. |
| 2:03.6 | Name one aspect of President Trump's economic agenda with which you disagree. |
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