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ABC News Update

Thursday, April 09, 2026 07:00PM ET

ABC News Update

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🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

9-1-1, where is the emergency?

0:02.7

It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.

0:06.7

Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.

0:09.9

A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.

0:14.9

Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?

0:17.6

At this point, nobody knows.

0:19.6

Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie, plays out in real life.

0:29.0

I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio.

0:33.4

Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:41.9

Music Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts. From ABC News, I'm Dave Packer, the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran under pressure.

0:48.0

Both sides disagreeing on terms of a deal ahead of peace talks this weekend.

0:51.7

It's coming amid conflicting reports over how much that critical

0:54.7

shipping lane is actually open the strait of Hormuz. Tehran says it is, but for how long?

0:59.4

This is the short term. What happens in the medium and long term? Who controls the straight?

1:03.9

The president telling John Carl that there could be a joint venture between the U.S. and Iran,

1:08.2

that they could control this together, maybe even charged tolls,

1:11.6

not clear how that would work, and the White House has not said.

1:14.6

President Trump posting this afternoon that Iran was doing a poor job of allowing oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

1:20.6

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrey says Democrats will force another war powers vote on Iran when they return to Washington, D.C. from recess next week.

1:28.6

We're in active conversations with Republicans to secure an additional handful of our Republican

1:36.9

colleagues, which is all we will need to join House Democrats in stopping this reckless war of choice. A surprise announcement from First Lady Melania Trump.

1:47.0

She pushed back on rumors about her and the late Jeffrey Epstein.

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