Tennessee Republicans consider redrawing US House district covering majority-black Memphis – US politics live
by Lucy Campbell (now); Shrai Popat and Tom Ambrose ( from World news | The Guardian on (#75DGT)
Lawmakers consider plan to break up state's lone Democratic-held district, a week after supreme court ruling on Louisiana and Voting Rights Act
Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of endangering a lot of Catholics" because he thinks it's fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon".
The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump's previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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