In Case You Missed It … This Week in News

A lot happened in the world this week – Make sure you didn’t miss it with Liberty Nation GenZ’s weekly news roundup!

Sunday, April 12, 2026

‘Massive Numbers’ of Empty Tankers Heading to US for Oil: Trump

President Donald Trump said on April 11 that “massive numbers” of empty tankers are heading to the United States to fill up on crude oil and gasoline. In a Truth Social post on April 11, the president touted the United States’ vast energy resources compared to those of other major producers. Shipping data indicate that an increasing number of commercial vessels are traveling toward the southern region of the country, stocking up as Iran restricts movement in the Strait of Hormuz.

Ukraine-Russia Orthodox Easter Ceasefire Fails

The truce between Russia and Ukraine during the Orthodox Easter weekend did not last very long. The 32-hour ceasefire, declared by the Kremlin, failed as Kyiv claimed that Moscow struck Ukrainian areas with drones. “The ceasefire is not being observed by the Russian side,” Serhii Kolesnychenko, a communications officer for the 148th Separate Artillery Brigade, told The Associated Press. Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced a ceasefire and ordered forces to suspend hostilities beginning at 4 p.m. on Saturday and well into Sunday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it a “humanitarian” gesture by the president.

Marco Rubio Revokes Green Cards for Three Iranian Immigrants

Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked green cards for three Iranian immigrants. In an April 11 statement, the State Department confirmed that Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son were taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody over alleged ties to the Iranian regime. This comes one week after Washington removed several Iranian immigrants. Rubio said that Hashemi and his family were granted visas to enter the United States in 2014.

US Military Removes Mines from Strait of Hormuz

The US military has started removing mines from the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global chokepoint for 20% of the world’s oil and gas shipments. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on April 11 that two Navy guided-missile destroyers started “setting conditions” to move ahead with the vital mission. This comes as Washington and Tehran began the first round of peace negotiations in Pakistan amid a fragile two-week ceasefire.

Monday, April 13, 2026

Hungarian PM Orban Concedes Defeat in National Elections

Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a favorite of President Donald Trump and his MAGA base, on Sunday conceded defeat to opposition leader Peter Magyar in an election result being widely hailed across the spectrum of the European political establishment.

Trump: Pope Leo ‘Weak on Crime,’ ‘Terrible for Foreign Policy’

President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed Pope Leo after being on the receiving end of veiled criticism by the Roman Catholic pontiff over his immigration and war policies. “Pope Leo is weak on crime, and terrible for foreign policy,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post. “I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don’t want a pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a country that was sending massive amounts of drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our country. And I don’t want a pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, in a landslide, to do, setting record-low numbers in crime, and creating the greatest stock market in history.”

GOP Rep. Burchett Urges Trump to Release All UFO Files

Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on Sunday called on President Donald Trump to release all federal government files on UFOs and aliens from outer space. “It’s not about little green men, it’s not about dadgum flying saucers,” Burchett told Fox News in an interview. “It’s about what are we spending tens of millions of your dollars on when some alphabet agency tells me they don’t exist and then again, another department within that department tells me they do exist.” “It’s like I told President Trump – peel back the layers of that onion, let America decide if we can handle it. I think we can handle it,” he continued. “I have some ideas about what it is, I’ve been briefed on some things and yeah, they’re pretty wild. And I think America needs to know that stuff, and we need to know what the heck were spending the money on to study.”

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Vance: Up to Iran to Take Next Step in Peace Negotiations

Vice President JD Vance on Monday declared the onus is on Iran to re-launch stalled peace negotiations to end its war with the US. “The ball really is in their court,” Vance told Fox News. “There really is, I think, a grand deal to be had here, but it’s up to the Iranians, I think, to take the next step.” Vance stressed that Iran needed to be stripped of any enriched uranium in its possession. “We must have the enriched material out of Iran. We must have their conclusive commitment to not develop a nuclear weapon,” he continued. “And I think that if the Iranians are willing to meet us there, then this can be a very, very good deal for both countries. If they’re not willing to meet us there, that’s up to them.”

DNI Gabbard Releases Files on Trump Ukraine Call Whistleblower

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday released “never-before-seen documents exposing a coordinated effort by elements within the Intelligence Community (IC), including a former Inspector General (IG), to manufacture a conspiracy that was used as the basis to impeach President Trump in 2019,” a statement from her office declared.

Canada PM Carney Wins Majority Government

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday secured a major political victory, as his Liberal Party won a majority in the House of Commons after special parliamentary elections. Five opposition party members had joined the Liberals over the past year, getting him to within one vote of the 172 needed to wield majority control. Now he is over the top. The Liberals claimed all three elections up for grabs Monday.

DOJ Fires Prosecutors Involved in Biden-Era FACE Act Cases

The Justice Department “has fired at least four prosecutors who were involved in prosecutions under the FACE Act during the Biden administration, a government official familiar with the firings told” CBS News. “Among those fired Monday is Sanjay Patel, a longtime federal prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division’s criminal section who was placed on administrative leave last month, sources told CBS News at the time,” the network relates. “The terminations occurred at about the same time a report on the FACE Act and the Biden Justice Department was being finalized.” Under former President Joe Biden, the FACE Act was aggressively utilized by his attorney general Merrick Garland to bring federal criminal charges against pro-life activists for protesting in front of abortion clinics.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

US Forces Barred Six Ships in First Day of Iran Port Blockade

US military forces on Tuesday prevented six merchant ships from gaining access to Iranian ports during the first 24 hours of an all-out blockade. “More than 10,000 US sailors, Marines, and airmen along with over a dozen warships and dozens of aircraft are executing the mission to blockade ships entering and departing Iranian ports. During the first 24 hours, no ships made it past the US blockade and six merchant vessels complied with direction from US forces to turn around to re-enter an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman,” US Central Command said in a statement. “The blockade is being enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. US forces are supporting freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.”

Trump: Iran War ‘Very Close’ to Ending

President Donald Trump told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in an interview that will air today that he believes the US-Iran war is nearing an end. “I think it’s close to over, yeah. I view it as very close to being over,” Trump declared. “If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country. And we’re not finished,” the president added. “We’ll see what happens. I think they want to make a deal very badly.”

Appeals Court Shuts Down Boasberg’s Trump Contempt Probe

A divided panel of three judges on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday “ordered an end to criminal contempt proceedings launched by a lower court judge who said the [Trump administration] defied his order to turn around deportation flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year,” CBS News reports.

DOJ Report: Biden Admin Weaponized FACE Act Against Pro-Lifers

The Trump administration Justice Department on Tuesday “released a report revealing how the Biden administration systematically targeted pro-life activists for FACE Act prosecutions, often at the behest of pro-abortion organizations,” Breitbart reports.

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Iran Will Sink US Ships if They ‘Police’ Strait of Hormuz

Mohsen Rezaei, the military advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, vowed on Wednesday that Iran will sink US ships in the Strait of Hormuz if American military forces attempt to “police” the vital shipping waterway. “Mr. Trump wants to become the police of the Strait of Hormuz. Is this really your job? Is this the job of a powerful army like the US?” Rezaei told state television. “These ships of yours will be sunk by our first missiles and have created a great danger for the US military. They can definitely be exposed to our missiles and we can destroy them.”

China Agrees Not to Send Weapons to Iran

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that China has agreed not to send arms to Iran as the war between the Middle Eastern nation and the US continues. “China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I am doing it for them, also – and the world,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Greenland PM Says Citizens ‘Don’t Feel Safe’ After Trump Threats

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the citizens of his country “don’t feel safe” in the wake of President Donald Trump declaring that the US intends to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish island. “A lot of people don’t feel safe,” Nielsen told NBC News in an interview. “Some have been scared. Now it’s turning into – for a lot – turning into anger.” “We know there is some sort of desire to own or to control Greenland, and even though [Trump] has taken something off the table, in terms of invasion and so on, he has never been taking that desire to own or control Greenland off the table,” Nielsen explained.