Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 Some key things to watch today:3 p.m.: Cabinet meeting3 p.m.: Protest by Lebanese University's contractual professors to demand livable wages.Three-year commemoration since Hezbollah launched its "support front" against Israel.Women use paddleboards as a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz appears in the distance, near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, Oct. 6, 2026. (Credit: Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA/WANA) US says no truce with Iran without nuclear concessions; IRGC readies tighter Hormuz blockade, Reuters reports: U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance told Reuters that only Iranian concessions on nuclear enrichment would pave the way for a truce, as Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) announced preparations to further tighten its control...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 Some key things to watch today:3 p.m.: Cabinet meeting3 p.m.: Protest by Lebanese University's contractual professors to demand livable wages.Three-year commemoration since Hezbollah launched its "support front" against Israel.Women use paddleboards as a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz appears in the distance, near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, Oct. 6, 2026. (Credit: Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA/WANA) US says no truce with Iran without nuclear concessions; IRGC readies tighter Hormuz blockade, Reuters reports: U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance told Reuters that only Iranian concessions on nuclear enrichment would pave the way for a truce, as Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) announced preparations to further tighten its control...