{"id":136125,"date":"2025-05-04T07:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-rubio-tangles-with-germany-crackdown-on-campus-protests-continues-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:13:35","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-rubio-tangles-with-germany-crackdown-on-campus-protests-continues-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-rubio-tangles-with-germany-crackdown-on-campus-protests-continues-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Rubio tangles with Germany; crackdown on campus protests continues – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berlin dismisses secretary of state\u2019s criticism over AfD designation; nine pro-Palestinian activists arrested at Swarthmore College \u2013 key US politics stories from Saturday 3 May at a glance
Germany\u2019s foreign ministry has pushed back after Marco Rubio criticised the country\u2019s decision to designate the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/a> (AfD) party a \u201cconfirmed rightwing extremist\u201d force incompatible with its constitution.
\u201cThis is democracy,\u201d the ministry said in a post on X, adding that the courts would have the final say and that \u201cwe have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped\u201d. The US secretary of state had called the move \u201ctyranny in disguise\u201d.
The spat unfolded as the US continued its crackdown on pro-Palestinian free speech, with nine activists arrested at an encampment at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
Here are the key stories at a glance:
Germany\u2019s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/a>, after he called on Berlin to reverse course over a decision to label the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/a> party a \u201cconfirmed rightwing extremist group\u201d.
On Thursday, Rubio took to X and wrote<\/a>: \u201cGermany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That\u2019s not democracy \u2013 it\u2019s tyranny in disguise.\u201d
The German foreign ministry pushed back in its own statement, saying: \u201cThis is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough and independent investigation to protect our constitution and the rule of law.\u201d
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Swarthmore borough police department disbanded<\/a> a four-day pro-Palestinian encampment on Swarthmore College\u2019s campus and arrested nine activists.
The demonstration calling on the Pennsylvania college to divest from the tech company Cisco due to its ties to the Israeli government<\/a> was a rare uprising in an academic year where higher-education institutions have been quick to quash them.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A federal appeals court has foiled a plan to return more than 1,000 Voice of America (VoA) workers to their desks after an earlier court ruling granted a temporary stay on Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s executive order dismantling the US taxpayer-funded news service for overseas listeners.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A \u201ccatastrophic\u201d exodus of thousands of employees from the US Department of Labor threatens \u201call of the core aspects of working life\u201d, insiders have warned, amid fears that the Trump administration<\/a> will further slash the agency\u2019s operations.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Voters in a small patch of south Texas voted on Saturday to give Elon Musk<\/a> a town to call his own, officially creating a new city called Starbase in the area where Musk\u2019s SpaceX holds rocket launches.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Texas governor, Greg Abbott<\/a>, signed a law<\/a> on Saturday making more than 5 million students eligible to use state funds for private schools<\/strong>, a watershed moment in the conservative campaign to remake public education in the US.
A Guatemalan immigrant who crossed the US border<\/a> eight months pregnant and gave birth in Arizona<\/a> has avoided fast-track deportation<\/a><\/strong> after intervention by the state\u2019s governor.
Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photo showing himself as the pope<\/strong> ahead of this week\u2019s gathering of cardinals<\/a> to choose a new leader, drawing instant outrage on X.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 2 May 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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