U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Collapses as American Death Toll Rises
WSJ What’s News
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🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 13 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! |
| 0:12.0 | That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill! |
| 0:15.0 | See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. |
| 0:18.0 | This bill would cut the vital resources they need. |
| 0:25.1 | While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they? |
| 0:29.1 | Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores. |
| 0:31.2 | Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition. |
| 0:40.2 | The U.S. Iran ceasefire effectively collapses after escalating fighting takes a deadly turn. |
| 0:44.3 | And they continue to send signals that they want to talk, that they want to negotiate, |
| 0:47.1 | but their behavior is what we're responding to. |
| 0:55.8 | Plus, the FDA continues probing the source of widespread food-borne illness after walking back weekend findings, and we'll look at why young conservatives are suddenly Nixon-maxing. It's Monday, July 20th. I'm Luke Vargas |
| 1:02.1 | for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business |
| 1:07.7 | stories moving your world today. Three American troops have Headlines and Business Stories, Moving Your World Today. |
| 1:18.2 | Three American troops have now died in connection with Iranian attacks over the weekend, |
| 1:23.2 | making a recent flare-up in fighting one of the deadliest for U.S. service members since the start of the war in February. Two American troops were killed in an Iranian attack on an airbase in |
| 1:29.0 | Jordan, and the U.S. is still working to identify the remains of what is believed to be a third |
| 1:33.7 | American service member who went missing after the strike. Meanwhile, another U.S. troop died |
| 1:39.4 | Saturday in Iraq during a controlled detonation of an Iranian attack drone. Journal National Security |
| 1:45.8 | correspondent Shelby Holiday says the deaths are likely to test the restraint of President Trump, |
| 1:50.7 | who previously said he'd consider going back to war if Iran killed U.S. soldiers. |
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