Top Stories — Friday, April 10, 2026
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- Amid Trump’s Threats, NATO Labors to Survive the Iran War — nyt News
- Senate Dem accuses Trump of being 'unfit for office,' joins growing call to impeach, oust president — Fox News
- Cramer explains the divergence in tech stocks – and why software may continue to lag — CNBC
Amid Trump’s Threats, NATO Labors to Survive the Iran War
Source: nyt News • Published: 4/10/2026, 3:59:16 AM
Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, described his tense meeting with President Trump this week as a “conversation” that “was really between friends.”
Mr. Trump, in a social media post on Thursday, put it slightly differently: “our own, very disappointing, NATO” does not understand “anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!!”
Even as it has violently upended the Middle East and put intense strains on the global economy, the war in Iran has deepened the gulf between Mr. Trump and America’s NATO allies. That is after those countries spent more than a year buffeted by the president’s threats, begun in his first term, to abandon the alliance.
Mr. Trump is training his anger at NATO as his cease-fire with Iran hangs in the balance and even some of his supporters question whether the United States really achieved its objectives. He is airing his discontent over his inability to take over Greenland, despite behind-the-scenes talks over the Danish island that the White House says are going well. And he is forcing European leaders yet again to try to keep him from abandoning them, even as their countries struggle to shoulder the economic costs of the U.S. war with Iran.
“We have, sometimes, the political home front to take care of,” Mr. Rutte said onstage at the Ronald Reagan Institute in Washington on Thursday, in a diplomatically phrased reminder that the war was deeply unpopular in Europe. “NATO is there, of course, to protect the Europeans, but also to protect the United States.”
Mr. Rutte, a former prime minister of the Netherlands, was making the point that the U.S. military benefits from its bases in Europe and, despite the tensions, has used them as staging sites for the war on Iran. But widening cracks in the alliance show that even if negotiators succeed in making a deal in the talks that start Saturday for a more permanent end to the war, the scars are likely to be lasting.
The Iran war “has become a trans-Atlantic stress test,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany said on Thursday, after acknowledging that his country was “massively suffering” from the energy market disruptions caused by the war. “We do not want — I do not want — a split within NATO.”
Mr. Trump’s disdain for the alliance dates back decades, underpinned by his conviction that Europeans have been freeloading off the American security umbrella. His latest fury stems from U.S. allies’ refusal to embrace his decision to join Israel in assaulting Iran, with Britain and Spain setting limits on the United States’ ability to use bases on their territory.
Mr. Trump escalated his threats against NATO even as he prepared to wind down the war — and despite the fact that he did not try to build a coalition with European countries before the bombing started. He told The Telegraph last week that he may pull out of the alliance entirely. In a news conference on Monday, a day before the cease-fire, Mr. Trump volunteered that he still sought control of Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory in the North Atlantic.
“It all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland,” Mr. Trump said after voicing his dissatisfaction with Europe’s lack of support for the Iran war. “We want Greenland. They don’t want to give it to us.”
He reinforced the point Wednesday, posting on social media in all capitals that “NATO wasn’t there when we needed them” and that Greenland was a “big, poorly run, piece of ice!!!”
Mr. Trump’s pivot back to Greenland was striking given that he said in January that he and Mr. Rutte had formed a “great” framework for a future deal over the island. Three-way talks between officials from Greenland, Denmark and the United States have continued since. There is no indication that those talks would grant control of Greenland to the United States, but a White House official said the administration was optimistic about the course of the talks.
In years past, many of Mr. Trump’s allies in Washington tried to rein in his attacks on NATO, seeking to remind him of the power that the United States gains from being able to base troops and warplanes in Europe. But in recent weeks, many of the war’s supporters in the United States have joined Mr. Trump in piling on against NATO, especially given the president’s frustration over Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Sean Hannity, the Fox News host close to the president, said on his show Wednesday night that Europe was “a dying continent” and mused that “I’m not sure it’s worth going forward with NATO as we go on.”
Jack Keane, a retired general whom Mr. Trump awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020, told Mr. Hannity that he did not think the president would pull out of NATO because “there is still value” in the alliance, but he predicted there would be consequences.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t decide to move some of our troops out of Western European countries and move them into Eastern Europe countries,” General Keane said. “I think we’ll likely do something.”
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Mr. Trump was considering moving U.S. troops stationed in Europe from countries seen as unhelpful in the war effort to ones seen as supportive, like Poland and Romania. The White House did not comment on the report, but a senior U.S. military official in Europe said that options were being reviewed.
Mr. Trump has threatened NATO many times, only to largely preserve the status quo. In the president’s latest outburst, some analysts also see a familiar inclination to attack a weaker party, especially given Mr. Trump’s inability to compel Iran to surrender after five weeks of bombardment.
“Beating up on Europe and NATO has really no domestic cost,” said Jeremy Shapiro, a former State Department official who is the research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s quite typical for Trump: When things are going wrong, he finds the weakest person in the room and blames them.”
Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Washington, and Christopher F. Schuetze from Berlin.
Anton Troianovski writes about American foreign policy and national security for The Times from Washington. He was previously a foreign correspondent based in Moscow and Berlin.
Read the full story at nyt News.
Senate Dem accuses Trump of being 'unfit for office,' joins growing call to impeach, oust president
Source: Fox News • Published: 4/10/2026, 3:43:51 AM
Another Senate Democrat has called on President Donald Trump to be removed from office over the Iran war.
"I certainly think the president should be removed," Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., said. "I mean, he's unfit for office. I think, the 25th Amendment, and if not, then impeachment."
Congressional Democrats, particularly in the House, recently have escalated their position against Trump’s war in Iran, shifting from pushing for Congress to reassert its authority in declaring war to demanding that the president be ousted from office.
Another Senate Democrat has called on President Donald Trump to be removed from office over the Iran war. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Trump’s comments in the past few days, particularly his threat against Iran that a "whole civilization will die" unless the Strait of Hormuz was reopened, sparked the latest growing push to see him removed from office.
While there is growing sentiment among House Democrats to jettison Trump from office, it’s not as widespread in the Senate. Still, Kim on Thursday joined a small group of Senate Democrats echoing the desires of their counterparts in the House.
So far, Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., all either have demanded that Trump be impeached or removed through the 25th Amendment.
Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., wants President Donald Trump removed from office either through impeachment or the 25th amendment over his comments and actions in Iran. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has stopped short of calling for impeachment, but instead is teeing up another war powers resolution — the fourth since the war began in February — to rein in Trump’s war authorities in the region as a fragile two-week ceasefire continues.
But their calls for removal likely aren’t going to go anywhere now, given the political reality in Washington, D.C. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, meaning impeachment is all but a moot point.
And invoking the 25th Amendment, which has never been used to remove a sitting president, is even more unlikely, given that it would require Vice President JD Vance, a majority of Trump’s Cabinet, and then a two-thirds majority vote in Congress to remove him.
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., railed against Senate Democrats, and accused them of trying to rip apart DHS. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu)
It’s also a desire that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., contended was "not realistic right now, given his oddball Cabinet of sycophants and eccentrics," earlier this week.
"We’re going to have to buckle down and win this the old-fashioned way," Whitehouse said.
Democrats’ position does provide foreshadowing for what could happen if they win big in the midterm elections this fall, however.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are still backing Trump’s actions in Iran, despite some straying from the party line over his recent apocalyptic comments.
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said that "Iran has been at war with the United States for 47 years, and it's time for Iran to choose peace."
"They haven’t done it yet," Barrasso said. "What we have seen is American peace through strength, and with this operation that is going on now, incredible success by the United States. We have done what we have talked about doing. Eliminate their missiles and eliminate their missile production and eliminate their missile firing capacity, undermine their ability to ever get a nuclear weapon, and sink the navy."
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment and has not yet received a reply.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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Cramer explains the divergence in tech stocks – and why software may continue to lag
Source: CNBC • Published: 4/10/2026, 3:43:47 AM
CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday marveled at the divergent fates of technology stocks — the hardware winners and software losers — and suggested it may remain this way for a while longer.
This divide had been one of the market's dominant themes in 2026 before the Iran war broke out Feb. 28. And now, even with the conflict paused in a "fragile truce," Cramer said the buy hardware, sell software trade has returned in full force.
"I'm talking about the enterprise software empire that's being toppled by hardware stocks and AI," the "Mad Money" host said. "This war in tech, more than the actual war in Iran, has captivated Wall Street."
Thursday's market action paints a clear picture, according to Cramer.
Just look at the underperformance in software names. Salesforce and Adobe fell nearly 3% and 4%, respectively. Cramer said the session's more than 4% decline in the IGV software ETF, a benchmark for the sector, was a read on investor sentiment as well. "This ETF is the primary way that big institutions bet on or bet against software," he added. This also means that even non-traditional software stocks like cybersecurity are taking hits just because they're in the fund. Case in point: CrowdStrike plunged 7.5% on Thursday.
On the other side of the trade is hardware.
Cramer said companies who are "killing it" are the ones that underpin the large-scale development of data centers and AI infrastructure. Semiconductor players Marvell Technology and Intel both gained nearly 5% during the session. Shares of Corning, which makes materials for data centers, rose 2.85%.
"If you're in the software camp, you're being treated as if you're ready for the embalmer," Cramer said. "If you are in the hardware and AI camp, you're headed for the pantheon of greatness."
Moving forward, Cramer said it doesn't look like this trend will change anytime soon either. "Here's the bottom line: maybe tomorrow we'll return to the worldwide narrative, whether it's war or peace in the Middle East," he said, a nod to the conflict-driven stock moves that have captivated the broader market for the past five weeks.
Cramer continued, "But, for now, it's just another day when hardware slew software like Cain slew Abel and all I can do is say get used to it."
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