Kitchen Briefs - April 20, 2026 AM

• The A team is enroute to Pakistan for peace talks, Iran says there are no such talks planned, this after the US struck an Iranian ship yesterday and seized it
• Trump says Israel didn’t talk him into this war
• The families of over 100 children who the US killed during strikes on an Iranian school sent a thank you letter to Pope Leo for speaking out
• A photo emerged this weekend of an Israeli soldier in Lebanon taking a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus
• The BBC has been investigating the fact that there have been a number of spikes in trading ahead of announcements made by Trump
• Kash Patel has filed a $250M defamation suit against The Atlantic
• Trump will be reading a Bible verse from the Oval office on Tuesday and Sean Hannity turned in his Catholic card
• The Supreme Court will be deciding if preschools that decline children of same-sex couples may receive state funding.
• This weekend President Obama and Mayor Mamdani sang Wheels on the Bus to preschoolers
• A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Japan and triggered tsunami warnings
• It is National Library Week