{"id":209922,"date":"2026-05-06T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-marco-rubio-in-white-house-press-room-puts-a-spin-on-rising-gas-prices-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:01:47","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-marco-rubio-in-white-house-press-room-puts-a-spin-on-rising-gas-prices-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-marco-rubio-in-white-house-press-room-puts-a-spin-on-rising-gas-prices-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Marco Rubio, in White House press room, puts a spin on rising gas prices – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secretary of state says US is \u2018very fortunate\u2019 as Trump\u2019s Iran war pushes gas price near $4.50 a gallon \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday, 5 May at a glance
Marco Rubio<\/a> has a message for Americans worried about soaring gas prices sparked by Trump\u2019s war on Iran: it could be worse.
With average US fuel prices<\/a> now approaching $4.50 a gallon \u2013 their highest level in four years \u2013 Donald Trump\u2019s secretary of state was asked on Tuesday how long Americans should accept them at such levels.
Other countries were suffering \u201cbig time\u201d, Rubio replied. The US was \u201cvery fortunate\u201d as a net exporter of oil, as it is not as reliant as other countries on oil from the Middle East, he said.
\u201cThere are people that we\u2019re predicting would be much higher at this point,\u201d he claimed, \u201cbut we\u2019re not taking that for granted.\u201d
Average fuel prices in the US now stand at $4.48 per gallon, according to AAA, frustrating drivers and exacerbating affordability concerns. A year ago, they were just under $3.17.
Global oil prices have surged since the US and Israel first attacked Iran on 28 February. The strait of Hormuz<\/a>, which usually carries a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquid gas supplies, has since been all but closed \u2013 sparking vast economic disruption across the world.
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House Democrats have asked the secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/a>, to publicly announce that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, arguing that Washington must end decades of ambiguity over the issue amid the conflict with Iran.
In a letter sent on Monday, 30 Democrats wrote that it was unsustainable for Donald Trump to collaborate with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, on a military campaign against Iran \u2013 with the stated goal of preventing the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon \u2013 without publicly acknowledging the US ally\u2019s possession of the bomb.
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Senate Republicans have released a new immigration enforcement funding package that includes a proposed $1bn that could go to security measures related to the $400m ballroom that is part of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s \u201cEast Wing modernization project\u201d.
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Democratic<\/a> senator Sherrod Brown and Republican<\/a> senator Jon Husted won their party\u2019s nominations in Ohio<\/a>\u2019s primary elections on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press \u2013 teeing them up for what is expected to be a high-profile and expensive Senate race in November\u2019s midterm elections.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has blocked the publication of several studies that found Covid-19 and shingles vaccines to be safe, according to a spokesperson from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Agency scientists conducted the studies by analyzing millions of patient records and found that serious side-effects from the vaccines were rare, the spokesperson confirmed. The studies \u2013 funded by taxpayer money and costing several million dollars \u2013 included research examining the safety of Covid-19 vaccines in 2023 and 2024.
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The federal health department will begin a series of steps intended to curb antidepressant use in the US, Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> announced this week.
Antidepressants, specifically selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, have long been a target for Kennedy, the Trump administration\u2019s health secretary, who talked about the plans at an event on Monday hosted by the Make America Healthy Again Institute, an organization focused on advancing the Maha agenda.
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Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of \u201cendangering a lot of Catholics\u201d because \u201che thinks it\u2019s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon\u201d.
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Jonathan Pollard, a former US navy intelligence analyst jailed for 30 years for spying for Israel<\/a><\/strong>, has said he will stand for election to the Knesset this year on a platform of ethnic cleansing.
Cole Tomas Allen, the suspected gunman at the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner, is facing an additional related charge for assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon<\/a><\/strong>, federal authorities announced on Tuesday.
The UK\u2019s Rachel Reeves had an angry exchange with her US counterpart, treasury secretary Scott Bessent, in Washington last month over the war in Iran<\/a><\/strong>, sources have said, in the latest sign of the deepening tensions between the two countries.
A US Secret Service officer has been placed on administrative leave after being arrested for allegedly exposing and fondling himself<\/a><\/strong> in a public area of a Miami hotel.
In what appears to be a new front in the Trump administration\u2019s pressure campaign against the media, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the New York Times<\/a><\/strong>, charging that the news organization improperly passed over a white, male employee for promotion because of his race or sex.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on Tuesday, 5 May<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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