{"id":135861,"date":"2025-05-02T03:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-rubio-now-holds-four-titles-after-waltz-out-as-national-security-chief-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T03:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:40:02","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-rubio-now-holds-four-titles-after-waltz-out-as-national-security-chief-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-rubio-now-holds-four-titles-after-waltz-out-as-national-security-chief-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Rubio now holds four titles after Waltz out as national security chief – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marco Rubio becomes the first person since Henry Kissinger to hold the national security adviser and secretary of state positions at the same time \u2013 key US politics stories from Thursday 1 May
Secretary of state Marco Rubio \u2013 ridiculed as \u201cLittle Marco\u201d by Donald Trump<\/a> during the 2016 Republican primaries \u2013 has become one of the most powerful players in the president\u2019s cabinet.<\/a>
Trump<\/a> appointed Rubio interim national security adviser on Thursday after Mike Waltz was forced to leave the post, alongside his deputy, Alex Wong, as sources said officials had lost confidence in their leadership.
Waltz has been under intense pressure since the Signal scandal<\/a>, in which he inadvertently added a journalist to a chat that included real-time operational details on US strikes in Yemen.
It\u2019s an enormous rise for Rubio, the son of undocumented Cuban migrants, who now holds four titles in the Trump administration<\/a>.\u00a0Rubio is also the acting administrator for USAID and acting archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration.
Waltz may be out of the picture for now, but he is on course to reemerge in the world of international diplomacy \u2013 Trump said he will nominate Waltz as the country\u2019s ambassador to the UN. Trump briefly considered firing Waltz over the Signal episode, but decided he did not want the media to claim the ouster of a cabinet official weeks into his second term. Trump was also mollified by an internal review<\/a> that found Waltz mistakenly saved the Atlantic editor\u2019s number.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration will approve its first sale of military equipment to Ukraine since Donald Trump took office, in an indication that the minerals deal signed by the two countries this week<\/a> may open a path to renewed weapons shipments.
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The 18th-century Alien Enemies Act does not authorize Donald Trump<\/a> to deport Venezuelan immigrants<\/a> alleged to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Thursday<\/a>.
The decision is significant because it is the first sweeping and permanent injunction directly addressing whether the government can use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA)<\/a> to deport alleged members of Tren de Aragua. It applies only to migrants detained in Rodriguez\u2019s judicial district, the southern district of Texas<\/a>, which includes<\/a> Brownsville, McAllen and Houston. Trump appointed Rodriguez to the federal bench in 2018.
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More than 250 attorneys in the justice department\u2019s civil rights division have either left, been reassigned, or accepted a deferred resignation offer since January, according to an estimate provided to the Guardian by people familiar with the matter. The significant decrease in personnel underscores how Donald Trump is gutting the arm of the federal government responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws.
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The legal team behind Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda<\/a>, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to El Salvador<\/a>, is demanding that the Trump administration<\/a> \u201cbring him back and give him a full and fair trial\u201d as the administration releases new domestic abuse allegations.
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The British government\u2019s attempts to curry favor with Donald Trump<\/a> by nudging golf executives to host one of the world\u2019s most prestigious golf tournaments at a Scottish<\/a> venue owned by the US president could ultimately lead to a violation of the US constitution, ethics experts have warned.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration<\/a> has unveiled a news-style website that publishes exclusively positive coverage of the president on official White House servers, and is styled like the rightwing website the Drudge Report.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> and his department have made a series of misleading statements that alarmed vaccine experts and advocates in recent days \u2013 including that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine includes \u201caborted fetus debris<\/a>\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Trump has launched an unprecedented environmental assault<\/strong>, pushing 145 rollbacks of clean air, water, and climate protections in his first 100 days, more than in his entire first term<\/a>.
The US approached China for talks on Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/strong>, according to a state-linked Chinese account, suggesting Beijing may be open to negotiations<\/a>.
Trump officials have asked the supreme court <\/strong>to help strip temporary protected status from more than 300,000 Venezuelans, a move that would clear the way for their deportation.<\/a>
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 30 April 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Marco Rubio becomes the first person since Henry Kissinger to hold the national security adviser and secretary of state positions at the same time \u2013 key US politics stories from Thursday 1 MaySecretary of state Marco Rubio \u2013 ridiculed as \u201cLittle Marco\u201d by Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican primaries \u2013 has become one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}