Israel & Lebanon agree to 10-day ceasefire; House votes down Iran War Powers Act resolution; HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testifies on rooting out health are spending fraud episode artwork

EPISODE · Apr 16, 2026 · 59 MIN

Israel & Lebanon agree to 10-day ceasefire; House votes down Iran War Powers Act resolution; HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testifies on rooting out health are spending fraud

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President Donald Trump announces a 10-day ceasefire between Israel & Lebanon, to pause the war between Israel & Hezbollah in Lebanon. President Trump says the next round of negotiations in the war between the U.S. & Iran could happen this weekend; House votes down by just a few votes an Iran War Powers resolution to limit the president's authority to wage war on Iran without Congressional approval; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth compares news media criticizing the U.S. war with Iran to the Pharisees, the biblical Jewish group who criticized Jesus; House passes a bill to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitian immigrants living in the U.S., as the Trump Administration is looking to revoke that protection; Senate joins the House overturning a Joe Biden-era environmental regulation banning mining operations on federal land in Minnesota's Superior National Forest; Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testifies before the House Ways & Means Committee on rooting out health care spending fraud; astronauts from the Artemis II moon mission hold their first news conference since returning to Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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