Today in One Sentence. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared a “historic and overwhelming victory” over Iran Iran said the two-week ceasefire with the U.S. was already being violated and warned that further talks were “unreasonable” after Israel struck Lebanon in its heaviest attacks yet Iran will limit traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to about a dozen ships a day and require a toll payment during the two-week ceasefire former Attorney General Pam Bondi won’t sit for her scheduled April 14 deposition before the House Oversight Committee on the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files Chris Taylor won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, expanding the liberal majority and effectively locking in control of the court until at least 2030 and Republican Clay Fuller won the special runoff election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.

1/ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared a “historic and overwhelming victory” over Iran, but said U.S. forces would remain in the region and ready to “restart at a moment’s notice” if needed. Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine clarified the ceasefire “is a pause” and the joint force “remains ready” to resume combat. JD Vance, meanwhile, called the agreement a “fragile truce,” said Trump was “impatient to make progress.” Vance will also lead U.S. talks with Iran in Islamabad alongside special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as the administration tries to turn the two-week pause into a longer deal. (Politico / Axios / CNBC / CBS News / Bloomberg / The Hill / Washington Post)

2/ Iran said the two-week ceasefire with the U.S. was already being violated and warned that further talks were “unreasonable” after Israel struck Lebanon in its heaviest attacks yet, killing at least 182 people. Iran’s parliamentary speaker said Washington had breached three parts of Tehran’s framework by allowing the “massacres in Lebanon,” an alleged drone incursion into Iranian airspace, and insisting that Iran wouldn’t be allowed to enrich uranium. But Trump, the White House, and Benjamin Netanyahu said Lebanon was never part of the deal, with Trump calling it “a separate skirmish.”Meanwhile, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Lebanon was “not part of the ceasefire agreement,” and JD Vance saying Iran “thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn’t.” (Washington Post / Associated Press / Reuters / NBC News / New York Times / Bloomberg / CNBC / The Guardian / CBS News / Axios / Politico / The Guardian)

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  • EARLIER: The U.S., Iran, and Israel agreed to a two-week temporary ceasefire to allow some ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and open a window for negotiations. Iran then publicly shared a 10-point plan calling for U.S. nonaggression guarantees, Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, a right to uranium enrichment, sanctions relief, reparations, a U.S. troop withdrawal from the region, and an end to U.N. and IAEA measures against Tehran. It also said any broader ceasefire should cover all fronts, including Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The broader deal, however, remained disputed over whether Iran would keep control of the strait, continue enriching uranium, win sanctions relief, and whether the truce covered Israel’s war in Lebanon. Trump and the White House said Iran’s 10-point plan wasn’t the proposal he meant when he called the ceasefire framework “workable.” (NBC News / New York Times / CNN / Wall Street Journal / Washington Post / Axios / Bloomberg / Reuters / Associated Press / Politico)
  • Federal agencies warned that Iran-linked hackers were targeting U.S. water, energy, and government systems, and said some intrusions had already caused operational disruption and financial losses. Hackers were exploiting internet-connected programmable logic controllers, including Rockwell Automation devices, and urged organizations to take those systems offline from the public internet and review logs for suspicious traffic. (Politico / Bloomberg / The Guardian / Wired / Reuters)
  • Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff on any country that supplies military weapons to Iran. Trump said the tariffs would take effect “immediately” with “no exclusions or exemptions.” It’s not clear, however, if he could even carry out the tariffs after the Supreme Court stripped away the 1977 emergency-law authority he’d relied on for unilateral tariffs. (Politico / The Hill / CNBC)

3/ Iran will limit traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to about a dozen ships a day and require a toll payment during the two-week ceasefire. Ships would have to coordinate with Iranian forces and pay the equivalent of about $1 per barrel of oil on board in crypto. Trump and the White House, however, demanded that the strait reopen “without limitation, including tolls.” Charging for passage through Hormuz would violate the longstanding principle of peaceful navigation through an international strait. (Associated Press / Wall Street Journal / The Hill / New York Times / CNBC / Politico)

4/ Former Attorney General Pam Bondi won’t sit for her scheduled April 14 deposition before the House Oversight Committee on the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The department she now longer works for said the subpoena no longer binds her to appear because Trump fired her, claiming she was summoned in her official capacity as attorney general. Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee’s top Democrat, said the subpoena applies to Bondi “whether she is the Attorney General or not” and threatened contempt if she refuses to appear. (ABC News / CBS News / Bloomberg / Politico / Axios / Associated Press / Washington Post)

5/ Chris Taylor won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, expanding the liberal majority and effectively locking in control of the court until at least 2030. Taylor, a state appeals judge and former Democratic lawmaker, defeated conservative appeals judge Maria Lazar for the 10-year term. (NBC News / Washington Post / CNN / New York Times / Politico)

6/ Republican Clay Fuller won the special runoff election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Fuller won by 12 percentage points – smaller than Trump’s 37-point win in the district in 2024. (Politico / NBC News / Washington Post / New York Times)

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