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It's April 25, 2023, and this is your DSR Daily Brief, Chris Cotnor.

Our top stories from international outlets this morning, according to the BBC, a ceasefire in Sudan appears to be holding, although there have been reports of new gunfire and shelling.

It is the fourth effort to stop the fighting, which began on April 15, with previous truces not observed.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the 72-hour truce had been agreed between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces after 48 hours of negotiations.

Both sides in the conflict, which has left more than 400 people dead, independently announced their involvement in the ceasefire.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned the violence in Sudan risks causing a catastrophic conflagration that could engulf the whole region and beyond.

The Washington Post reports that Fox News dropped Tucker Carlson, its controversial yet top-rated primetime host on Monday, a sudden and surprising parting with one of the most influential voices in Republican politics,

who had helped define the network's bombastic tone in the Trump era. His firing came less than a week after Fox settled a defamation lawsuit from Dominion voting systems, which had sued the network for airing false claims that it had conspired to rig the 2020 presidential election for $787.5 million, the largest publicly disclosed monetary settlement ever in an American defamation action.

Though Carlson largely avoided trafficking in those specific conspiracy theories, his private messages were among thousands of internal communications made public during its progress through the courts that caused angst and embarrassment for Fox and heightened the company's legal jeopardy.

Visit the link in the show notes for the Washington Post's full coverage on this story.

The AP reports that President Joe Biden is set today to formally announce his plans to run for re-election in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to finish the job he began when he was sworn into office and to set aside their concerns about extending the run of America's oldest president for another four years.

Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first term legislative achievements and more than 50 years of experience in Washington will count more than concerns over his age.

He faces a smooth path to winning his party's nomination with no serious democratic rivals, but he's still set to face a hard-fought struggle to retain the presidency in a bitterly divided nation.

The announcement will come on the four-year anniversary of when Biden declared for the White House in 2019, promising to heal the soul of the nation amid the turbulent presidency of Donald Trump, a goal that has remained elusive.

Elsewhere, according to Al Jazeera, Ukraine's international allies blasted Russia during United Nations Security Council meeting, chaired by Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, that focused on protecting the principles of the UN's charter, which Moscow itself is accused of violating by invading Ukraine last year.

In a note to UN member states laying out the premise for the meeting on Monday, Russia denounced the unipolar world order that took effect after the end of the Cold War.

Before the meeting, Lavrov said the UN system was enduring a profound crisis and accused Western countries, particularly the United States, of being responsible.

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