The Daily Brief - Apr. 22, 2026

The latest on the US-Iran peace talks, the vote for a new congressional map in Virginia, and more

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Iran Seizes Non-US Ships

Iran seized two cargo ships — neither of them from the US — in the Strait of Hormuz today and fired on a third just hours after President Trump extended the US-Iran ceasefire indefinitely. A UK maritime monitoring center said gunfire ca…