‘We’re more insulated than other countries’: Rubio says US is ‘very fortunate’ as gas prices spike to highest in four years
Marco Rubio defended spiking gas prices in the US. As we noted earlier, the average cost for a gallon of gasoline sits around $4.50 –the highest in four years.
The secretary of state said that other countries are suffering “big time” and the US is in a “very fortunate” position, despite the hike in fuel prices.
“We’ve been insulated to some degree,” Rubio added. “Even though that’s not welcome news to Americans that are paying more at the pump, no doubt about it … there are people that we’re predicting would be much higher at this point, but we’re not taking that for granted.”
Rubio also noted that if Iran had a nuclear weapon and decided to close the strait of Hormuz, he projected – without citing evidence – that gas prices would be around $8 or $9 a gallon.
“A nuclear armed Iran could do whatever the hell they want with the strait, and there’s nothing anyone would be able to do about it,” he said.
Rubio did not give a clear answer when probed about how much closer the US is in getting rid of Iran’s nuclear weapon capabilities.
“I think the president’s been clear that part of the negotiation process has to be not just the enrichment, but what happens to this material that’s buried deep somewhere that they have still have access to if they ever wanted to dig it out,” the secretary of state said. “I don’t want to endanger the negotiations, but suffice it to say the president and this entire team is aware of the centrality of that question, and that will have to be addressed one way or the other.”
Marco Rubio defended spiking gas prices in the US. As we noted earlier, the average cost for a gallon of gasoline sits around $4.50 –the highest in four years – amid the ongoing conflict in Iran. The secretary of state said that other countries are suffering “big time” and the US is in a “very fortunate” position, despite the hike in fuel prices.“We’ve been insulated to some degree,” Rubio added. “Even though that’s not welcome news to Americans that are paying more at the pump.
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Earlier, Donald Trump declined to say what Iran would have to do to constitute a violation of the ceasefire, amid rising tensions after both sides exchanged fire in the strait of Hormuz yesterday. “Well, you’ll find out because I’ll let you know,” the president said. “They know what to do, or what not to do more importantly.” During a Pentagon press conference, Trump’s defense secretary Pete Hegseth insisted that the Project Freedom has allowed the US to gain control of the strait of Hormuz, despite Iran claiming it has actually strengthened its control of the waterway, and thousands of cargo ships remain stranded in the strait.
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In Nashville, protests took place outside the Tennessee state capitol as the Republican-controlled legislature holds a special session to consider re-drawing congressional maps ahead of the midterm elections. Demonstrators shouted “hands off Memphis” and held up signs that read “protect Black votes”, as the Republican controlled assembly eyes a map that could see the dissolution of the only Democratic district in the state.
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The US education department is investigating one of the country’s largest women’s colleges over its admittance of transgender women in another escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on trans people. The department’s office of civil rights announced the investigation on Monday in a press release, saying the Massachusetts college could be violating federal law by “allowing biological males into women’s intimate spaces”, including dorms, bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams.
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The two Senate committees responsible for drafting the reconciliation package to fund parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have released the text of the legislation. The Senate judiciary committee and the homeland security committee have allocated more than $70bn for immigration enforcement as part of the package, for the remainder of Donald Trump’s second term in office. The package also includes $1bn for the Secret Service, related to “security adjustments and upgrades” for Trump’s White House ballroom project.
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Marco Rubio defended spiking gas prices in the US. As we noted earlier, the average cost for a gallon of gasoline sits around $4.50 –the highest in four years.
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The secretary of state said that other countries are suffering “big time” and the US is in a “very fortunate” position, despite the hike in fuel prices.
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“We’ve been insulated to some degree,” Rubio added. “Even though that’s not welcome news to Americans that are paying more at the pump, no doubt about it … there are people that we’re predicting would be much higher at this point, but we’re not taking that for granted.”
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Rubio also noted that if Iran had a nuclear weapon and decided to close the strait of Hormuz, he projected – without citing evidence – that gas prices would be around $8 or $9 a gallon.
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“A nuclear armed Iran could do whatever the hell they want with the strait, and there’s nothing anyone would be able to do about it,” he said.
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Rubio did not give a clear answer when probed about how much closer the US is in getting rid of Iran’s nuclear weapon capabilities.
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“I think the president’s been clear that part of the negotiation process has to be not just the enrichment, but what happens to this material that’s buried deep somewhere that they have still have access to if they ever wanted to dig it out,” the secretary of state said. “I don’t want to endanger the negotiations, but suffice it to say the president and this entire team is aware of the centrality of that question, and that will have to be addressed one way or the other.”
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On social media, the White House posted a racist AI image of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, to acknowledge Cinco de Mayo.
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The post includes a fake picture the two Democratic leaders wearing sombreros and holding margaritas with a sign that reads “I love illegal immigrants”, while they sit in front of a border checkpoint. The White House published the image on a day meant to celebrate the Mexico’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
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In response Schumer replied to the White House’s image on X, with a widely circulated picture of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein –however the top Senate Democrat doctored the image to show the president and the late sex-offender wearing sombreros.
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Trump, no stranger to publishing AI imagery and videos online, previously shared a fake video of Jeffries wearing a sombrero alongside Schumer as he spoke about how the Democratic party is failing.
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In Nashville, protests continue outside the Tennessee state capitol as the legislature holds a special session to consider re-drawing congressional maps ahead of the midterm elections. Demonstrators shouted “hands off Memphis” and held up signs that read “protect Black votes”, as the Republican controlled assembly eyes a map that could see the dissolution of the only Democratic district in the state.
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In today’s edition of The Latest podcast, Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger.
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Trump also claimed that the US blockade is working very well, adding that, “nobody’s going to challenge the blockade”.
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He added that Iran “wants to make a deal”.
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They play games, but let me tell you, they want to make a deal.
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Taking questions from reporters, Trump declined to say what Iran would have to do to constitute a violation of the ceasefire, amid rising tensions after both sides exchanged fire in the strait of Hormuz yesterday.
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“Well, you’ll find out because I’ll let you know,” Trump said. “They know what to do, or what not to do more importantly.”
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He added: “They’re looking around for little boats to try and compete with our great navy.”
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Referring to his war on Iran as “a little skirmish”, Donald Trump said that, “Iran has no chance, they never did. They know it.”
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“They express it to me when I talk to them and then they get on television and say how well they’re doing,” he claimed.
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He then repeated all his usual claims about the supposed decimation of Iran’s military capabilities, adding: “They’re not doing well, that’s why they have no credibility.”
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He later added his usual line that, “We can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
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The candidate qualifying period in Tennessee ended in March, and the primary election is scheduled for 6 August.
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Clergy members concerned about plans to split Memphis’ congressional district denounced the move yesterday.
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The two Senate committees responsible for drafting the reconciliation package to fund parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have released the text of the legislation.
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The Senate judiciary committee and the homeland security committee have allocated more than $70bn for immigration enforcement as part of the package, for the remainder of Donald Trump’s second term in office.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would receive more than $38bn, while Customs and Border Patrol would see a $26 billion injection if lawmakers approve the budget bills – which only needs a simple majority to advance.
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The package also includes $1bn for the Secret Service, related to “security adjustments and upgrades” for Trump’s White House ballroom project.
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This second reconciliation package since Trump returned to the White House is born out of this year’s impasse over DHS funding, after federal immigration officers fatally shot two US citizens amid the crackdown in Minneapolis. The stalemate on Capitol Hill ultimately let to a record-breaking partial government shutdown as Democrats blocked a homeland security appropriations bill in order to demand stronger guardrails on immigration agents. While GOP lawmakers eventually conceded and passed legislation that re-opened the wider DHS but omitted ICE and border patrol funding, Republicans vowed to use reconciliation to avert any further standoffs for the next three years.
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Hegseth insists, in response to reporters’ questions, that the ongoing ceasefire “is not over”, despite both sides exchanging fire in the strait of Hormuz yesterday.
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He called Project Freedom “separate and distinct”, but the administration will be watching “very, very closely” to ensure that Iran does not violate the ceasefire agreement. Hegseth maintained that said that Iranians do not control the strait of Hormuz, the mission to guide stranded ships through the passageway does shows that the Trump administration ultimately “holds the cards”.
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However, of the hundreds of stranded ships, only two US-flagged merchant vessels have “successfully transited” the strait, according to US Central Command (Centcom).
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The race with the highest national profile is Ohio’s Senate special election, in which Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, is vying to unseat the Republican incumbent, Jon Husted, and return to the chamber after failing to win re-election in 2024. The winner will serve the final two years of the term JD Vance won in 2022, before he became vice-president last year.
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Republicans in north-west Ohio will also choose their party’s nominee to take on Democratic representative Marcy Kaptur, the longest serving woman in congressional history whose district centered on Toledo has grown increasingly conservative under new maps a state redistricting commission approved last year.
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Elsewhere on the ballot, Ohioans will select candidates to replace the Republican governor, Mike DeWine, who cannot run again because of term limits. Biotech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is the Republicans’ frontrunner, and former state health department director Amy Acton the leading Democrat.
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Once a swing state that decided the 2004 presidential election for Republican George W Bush before Democrat Barack Obama carried it in both his election victories, Ohio has become increasingly Republican since Trump’s ascension as the leader of the Republicans.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is hoping to lock in his position as candidate in the race to become Ohio governor.
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Much of the Trump-endorsed biotech entrepreneur’s campaign has been spent focused on November’s election, as he positions himself for an expensive run against Dr Amy Acton, a former state health director running unopposed for the Democrats.
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Contests on the ballots also will set the stage for Ohio’s third competitive US Senate race in the last four years, as well as a handful of US House races that are expected to be closely fought in the fall.
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Every statewide executive office is open this year due to term limits, but the governor’s race has captured the bulk of the attention so far, AP reports.
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Ramaswamy, a 2024 GOP primary presidential candidate, swept onto the state’s political scene early last year. Then-senator JD Vance was ascending to the vice presidency and front-running gubernatorial candidate Jon Husted was being appointed to replace him in Washington.
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Though he is a newcomer in state politics, Ramaswamy’s national profile, tech industry connections and proximity to Trump landed him the Ohio Republican Party’s endorsement. With it, he cleared a prospective field that included the sitting state attorney general, state treasurer and lieutenant governor. But he still faces a long-shot challenge from car designer and YouTube provocateur Casey Putsch.
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“[Ramaswamy] is a polarizing figure,” said Jessica Taylor, an analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which forecasts US elections.
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“What certainly indicated to me that there’s just a likability problem for him was anytime you see a candidate’s first ad featuring their wife and children. It certainly looks like it’s trying to soften his image as a candidate.”
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Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US vessels trying to reopen a route through the strait of Hormuz. The US launched an operation to help hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, dragging the region back to the brink of full-scale war. While the US military claimed to have destroyed six Iranian small boats and intercepted both Iranian cruise missiles and drones, this was denied by Iran. More here.
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The Trump administration moved to block a lawsuit Minnesota officials filed almost six years ago alleging oil companies and a petroleum trade group deceived state residents about climate change. The justice department, the administration’s law enforcement arm, filed an action in federal court in Minneapolis arguing that the federal government has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, not states, and that Minnesota officials are trying to improperly impose their policy preferences on the rest of the country.
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The US supreme court went out of its way to help Louisiana Republicans redraw their congressional maps ahead of this year’s midterm elections. The procedural move comes less than a week after the court’s landmark decision striking down Louisiana’s congressional map and gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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The Trump administration is continuing to pressure the United Nations and the international aid sector more broadly to adopt trade-focused policies to benefit US firms – or face the threat of further budget cuts. Donald Trump’s second term has already seen USAID suffer mass layoffs and have its remaining operations folded into the state department, with a ripple effect across the globe that has many experts warning will cost thousands of lives as vital programs are cut. More here.
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The Trump administration’s attack on the 87-year-old food aid program that supports tens of millions of low-income Americans escalated last week as the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, claimed that 14,000 Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (Snap) recipients included owners of luxury vehicles such as Ferraris, Bentleys and Teslas. More here.
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As voters in Indiana head to the polls for the state’s primaries, Donald Trump flocked to social media to encourage his endorsed candidates and mock Republican state senators who rejected his effort to redraw the state’s congressional map in December, referring to them as “Republican in name only.”
“Good luck to those Great Indiana Senate Candidates who are running against people who couldn’t care less about our Country, or about keeping the Majority in Congress,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
“There are eight Great Patriots running against long seated RINOS — Let’s see how those RINOS do tonight!” he added.
The Palm Beach International Airport in Florida will officially be renamed after Donald Trump, roughly a month after the state’s governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law approving the name change.
Palm Beach County commissioners approved the transition on Tuesday, officially renaming the facility the Donald J Trump International Airport.
Trump’s son, Eric Trump, shared the airport’s logo via social media, saying “there is no person more deserving of this incredible honor” than his father.
The airport’s logo features a gold eagle holding two olive branches.
Here’s a recap of the day so far
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Marco Rubio defended spiking gas prices in the US. As we noted earlier, the average cost for a gallon of gasoline sits around $4.50 –the highest in four years – amid the ongoing conflict in Iran. The secretary of state said that other countries are suffering “big time” and the US is in a “very fortunate” position, despite the hike in fuel prices.“We’ve been insulated to some degree,” Rubio added. “Even though that’s not welcome news to Americans that are paying more at the pump.
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Earlier, Donald Trump declined to say what Iran would have to do to constitute a violation of the ceasefire, amid rising tensions after both sides exchanged fire in the strait of Hormuz yesterday. “Well, you’ll find out because I’ll let you know,” the president said. “They know what to do, or what not to do more importantly.” During a Pentagon press conference, Trump’s defense secretary Pete Hegseth insisted that the Project Freedom has allowed the US to gain control of the strait of Hormuz, despite Iran claiming it has actually strengthened its control of the waterway, and thousands of cargo ships remain stranded in the strait.
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In Nashville, protests took place outside the Tennessee state capitol as the Republican-controlled legislature holds a special session to consider re-drawing congressional maps ahead of the midterm elections. Demonstrators shouted “hands off Memphis” and held up signs that read “protect Black votes”, as the Republican controlled assembly eyes a map that could see the dissolution of the only Democratic district in the state.
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The US education department is investigating one of the country’s largest women’s colleges over its admittance of transgender women in another escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on trans people. The department’s office of civil rights announced the investigation on Monday in a press release, saying the Massachusetts college could be violating federal law by “allowing biological males into women’s intimate spaces”, including dorms, bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams.
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The two Senate committees responsible for drafting the reconciliation package to fund parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have released the text of the legislation. The Senate judiciary committee and the homeland security committee have allocated more than $70bn for immigration enforcement as part of the package, for the remainder of Donald Trump’s second term in office. The package also includes $1bn for the Secret Service, related to “security adjustments and upgrades” for Trump’s White House ballroom project.
On his upcoming meeting with Pope Leo XIV, Rubio said that the trip had been “planned before” the rift between the Trump administration and the Vatican. The president continued to chide the pontiff earlier this week for his condemnation of the war in Iran.
In the briefing room today, Rubio downplayed any tension ahead of his visit to Rome.
“I cannot understand why anyone would think that it’s a good idea for Iran to ever have a nuclear weapon,” the secretary of state said, despite the fact that Leo has never said that Iran should have nuclear weapons, but has repeatedly opposed the war on the country and the subsequent escalation of the conflict in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, calling for ceasefires and dialogue.
“The trip is really not tied to anything other than the fact that it would be normal for us to engage with them, and other secretary states have done that in the past,” Rubio added.
‘We’re more insulated than other countries’: Rubio says US is ‘very fortunate’ as gas prices spike to highest in four years
Marco Rubio defended spiking gas prices in the US. As we noted earlier, the average cost for a gallon of gasoline sits around $4.50 –the highest in four years.
The secretary of state said that other countries are suffering “big time” and the US is in a “very fortunate” position, despite the hike in fuel prices.
“We’ve been insulated to some degree,” Rubio added. “Even though that’s not welcome news to Americans that are paying more at the pump, no doubt about it … there are people that we’re predicting would be much higher at this point, but we’re not taking that for granted.”
Rubio also noted that if Iran had a nuclear weapon and decided to close the strait of Hormuz, he projected – without citing evidence – that gas prices would be around $8 or $9 a gallon.
“A nuclear armed Iran could do whatever the hell they want with the strait, and there’s nothing anyone would be able to do about it,” he said.
Rubio did not give a clear answer when probed about how much closer the US is in getting rid of Iran’s nuclear weapon capabilities.
“I think the president’s been clear that part of the negotiation process has to be not just the enrichment, but what happens to this material that’s buried deep somewhere that they have still have access to if they ever wanted to dig it out,” the secretary of state said. “I don’t want to endanger the negotiations, but suffice it to say the president and this entire team is aware of the centrality of that question, and that will have to be addressed one way or the other.”
In response to a question about pushback from US lawmakers who say that the blockade in the strait of Hormuz is an act of war, Rubio insisted that Iran is trying to make shutting down the waterway a “new normal”.
“Under no circumstances can we ever allow them to normalize the fact that they get to blow up commercial ships and put mines in the water,” he added. “So the response to that is, we’re going to blockade your ships.”
Rubio said there the Iranian regime is disingenuous when it repeats claims that it has no intent to develop a nuclear weapon.
“They just don’t mean it,” the secretary of state said. “They innovate and try to innovate long range delivery missiles that now, in some cases, are capable of reaching much of Europe. They build these large underground centrifuges to for enrichment activity. There are many, there are countries in the world that are involved in the enrichment business, but these guys do it in mountains and in caves and in hiding.”
Marco Rubio kicked off his press conference noting that the aim of Project Freedom is to rescue almost “23,000 civilians from 87 different countries that are trapped inside of the Gulf and left for dead” by the Iranian regime. The secretary of state underscored that it is a “defensive operation” and “there’s no shooting unless we’re shot at first”.
The significant amount of oil that travels through the strait of Hormuz, along with large volumes of fuel and fertilizer that operate through the passage is in jepoardy, according to Rubio. “The Iranian regime cannot be allowed to dictate who uses this vital waterway,” he told reporters. “Our preference is for these straits to be opened to the way they’re supposed to be open, back to the way it was. Anyone can use it. No mines in the water, nobody paying tolls. That’s what we have to get back to, and that’s the goal here.”
In a short while, we’re expecting to hear from secretary of state Marco Rubio, who will address reporters for a White House press briefing.
This comes a day before Rubio is set to travel to Rome, Italy to meet with Pope Leo XIV and other Vatican officials.
White House posts racist AI image of top Democrats for Cinco de Mayo
On social media, the White House posted a racist AI image of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, to acknowledge Cinco de Mayo.
The post includes a fake picture the two Democratic leaders wearing sombreros and holding margaritas with a sign that reads “I love illegal immigrants”, while they sit in front of a border checkpoint. The White House published the image on a day meant to celebrate the Mexico’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
In response Schumer replied to the White House’s image on X, with a widely circulated picture of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein –however the top Senate Democrat doctored the image to show the president and the late sex-offender wearing sombreros.
Trump, no stranger to publishing AI imagery and videos online, previously shared a fake video of Jeffries wearing a sombrero alongside Schumer as he spoke about how the Democratic party is failing.
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The US education department is investigating one of the country’s largest women’s colleges over its admittance of transgender women in another escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on trans people.
The department’s office of civil rights announced the investigation on Monday in a press release, saying the Massachusetts college could be violating federal law by “allowing biological males into women’s intimate spaces”, including dorms, bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams.
Title IX, the federal law that seeks to prevent sex-based discrimination in education and extracurriculars, includes an exemption for all-male or all-female colleges. But, the department said, that applies only to “biological sex difference, not subjective gender identity”. Admitting transgender students would mean the college no longer qualifies as single sex.
“An all-women’s college loses all meaning if it is admitting biological males,” assistant secretary for civil rights, Kimberly Richey, said in a statement. “Allowing biological males into spaces designed for women raises serious concerns about privacy, fairness, and compliance under federal law. The Trump administration will continue to uphold the law and fight to restore common sense.”
Smith’s admission policy allows for “any applicants who self-identify as women”, including “cis, trans and nonbinary women”, according to the college’s website. The college opened in 1875 and counts among its alumni multiple first ladies, elected officials and civic leaders.
We have more pictures coming through of protests outside the Tennessee capitol as Republican state lawmakers weigh new congressional maps.
‘Hands off Memphis’: protests in Nashville amid redistricting consideration in Tennessee
In Nashville, protests continue outside the Tennessee state capitol as the legislature holds a special session to consider re-drawing congressional maps ahead of the midterm elections. Demonstrators shouted “hands off Memphis” and held up signs that read “protect Black votes”, as the Republican controlled assembly eyes a map that could see the dissolution of the only Democratic district in the state.
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