Some headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.

Iran Ceasefire: End Of The Beginning, Or Beginning Of The End?

Trump Agrees to Two-Week Cease-Fire With Iran if Hormuz Is Reopened — Wall Street Journal

Two Week Ceasefire Subject to Opening of Hormuz — President Trump, Truth Social, via Real Clear Politics

Trump-Iran agree to two-week ceasefire, plan to open Strait of Hormuz — CNBC

Oil prices crater after Trump announces two-week ceasefire in US-Iran war — Yahoo Finance

Iran’s Top Spy Chief, Key IRGC Commanders Eliminated in Israeli Strikes — Legal Insurrection

Israel Strikes Critical Iranian Petrochemical Plant, Officials Say — Daily Caller

Report: Trump Says U.S. Tried to Send Guns to Iranian Protesters, Suggesting Kurds Kept Them — Breitbart

U.S. Fliers’ Bold Rescue Stuns World

The Rescue of DUDE 44: Inside the Massive Operation to Save Two Downed Airmen In Iran — Air & Space Forces Magazine

U.S. Rescues Second F‑15 Airman in Iran After Firefight — All Personnel Safe — Breitbart

Trump foreign policy rescues Americans without pallets of cash or sanctions relief for terrorists — Just The News

Iranian Rescue Mission Underscores Hegseth’s Predecessors’ Incompetence — The Federalist

CIA Waged ‘Deception Campaign’ To Help Save US Airman Downed In Iran, Director Says — Daily Caller

The Iranian Sharia-Supremacist Regime and ‘Civilian’ Infrastructure — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review

Far Left Drifts Farther And Farther From Mainstream . . .

The American Left’s Obliviousness to Iran’s Obvious Terrorism — J.T. Young, Townhall

It Is Impossible to Overstate How Deranged the Left Has Become — Hot Air

The Left Is Baffled — but Still Repulsed—by the White Working Class — American Greatness

Despotic, Neurotic, and Likely Psychotic: Liberals Have Become the Insane Clown Stasi — PJ Media

Blue-States’ Tax Folly

Blue States Turbocharging Their Own Collapses With New Tax Gambits — Daily Caller

Guess what happened when Washington state rolled out a steep new income tax — New York Post

These Big Town Blues — Committee To Unleash Prosperity

De-Regulating Our Over-Regulated Economy

Auto industry trade group urges feds to scrap gas tax and replace it with a vehicle weight fee — Fox Business

Trump Ends Obama Climate Regulations and Finalizes Massive Deregulation — PJ Media

Artemis II Puts U.S. Back In The Space Game, Bigly

Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record with daring moon flyby that included a solar eclipse — AP

Trump congratulates Artemis II astronauts following historic trip around the moon: ‘Modern-day pioneers’  — New York Post

Photos: NASA releases first images from moon flyby — NPR

Has NATO Outlived Its Usefulness?

What Exactly is NATO’s Purpose in 2026? — Front Page Magazine

NATO, Iran, and the Interests of Nations — American Greatness

European Weaklings Just Handed Trump the Perfect Excuse to Blow Up NATO – And They’ve Only Got Themselves to Blame! — The Gateway Pundit

A Foolish NATO Was a Big Loser in the Iran War — VDH, American Greatness

Who needs Europe? — Don Surber, Substack

Miscellaneous, But Interesting, Stuff . . .

How Higher Ed Can Survive the Demographic Cliff — Laura Demarse, Real Clear Education

Catholic Church saw 38% increase in young adults attending Easter services — The Post-Millennial

Researchers Confirm California’s Minimum Wage Hike Triggered Job Losses, Automation, and Reduced Hours — Slay News

Cuba Warns US Attack Would Bring Heavy Losses — NewsMax

Gavin Newsom’s wife empathized with San Quentin inmates by sharing shocking story of killing her sister — New York Post