President Donald Trump told Fox News he was in "heated negotiations" with Iran as his self-imposed deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz neared. With urgings from Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Trump's extending his 8 p.m. ET April 7 deadline by two weeks, calling the move a "double sided CEASEFIRE!" Earlier in the day, the president wrote on Truth Social, "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will."

Trump's threats have escalated even as public support has plummeted for the war he started Feb. 28. A Pew Research Center poll released April 7 showed that more than 60% of Americans are "not too" or "not at all" confident in the president's........

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