Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 6:27 and sunset is 7:17 for 12 hours 50 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 8.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Works Committee meets at 5 PM and the Whitewater School District’s Wellness Committee also meets at 5 PM.
On this day in 1760, the French surrender Montreal to the British, completing Britain’s conquest of New France.
The Trump administration loudly and proudly declared a military victory in Iran this week.
“Total and complete victory. 100 percent. No question about it,” President Donald Trump told a reporter with the AFP.
“This is a victory for the United States that President Trump and our incredible military made happen,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
“This morning, a big day for world peace. Iran wants it to happen. They’ve had enough. Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield. A capital ‘V,'” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday.
See Justin Fishel, Trump claims military victory in Iran, ABC News, April 9, 2026.
What to know about the Iran war today:
- Brent crude, the international standard for oil, was trading at a seven-week high of $99 per barrel Tuesday morning, continuing an upward trend seen since the end of August.
- The head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Monday that Tehran is planning to announce a maritime “exclusion zone” outside the Strait of Hormuz where it intends to stop vessels attempting to transit the waterway without Iranian permission.
- Iran threatened Sunday to deliver a “more intense and more painful” retaliation after the U.S. struck three Iranian oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.
See Duarte Dias and Frank Andrews, U.S.-Iran War Updates: Oil nears $100 a barrel as Strait of Hormuz stalemate keeps ship traffic down, CBS News, September 8, 2026.
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