Trump news at a glance: Rubio tangles with Germany; crackdown on campus protests continues

Berlin dismisses secretary of state's criticism over AfD designation; nine pro-Palestinian activists arrested at Swarthmore College - key US politics stories from Saturday 3 May at a glance

Germany's foreign ministry has pushed back after Marco Rubio criticised the country's decision to designate the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party a confirmed rightwing extremist" force incompatible with its constitution.

This is democracy," the ministry said in a post on X, adding that the courts would have the final say and that we have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped". The US secretary of state had called the move tyranny in disguise".