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‘Hands off Memphis’: protests in Nashville as Tennessee Republicans consider redrawing maps ahead of midterms – live


Lawmakers consider plan to break up state’s lone Democratic-held district, in majority-black Memphis area, after supreme court ruling that gutted Voting Rights Act

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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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Publish date : 2026-05-05 18:37:00

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