House approves short-term extension of surveillance law in blow to Republicans’ long-term plan – US politics live

This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:

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  The Senate passed a 10-day extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa).

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  Iran’s foreign minister said that passage for all commercial vessels though the strait of Hormuz is “completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire”.

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  Donald Trump addressed young Republican activists at Charlie Kirk’s megachurch in Phoenix, Arizona, ostensibly on the upcoming midterms, but the president was unable to stick to the subject, veering wildly from topic to topic, including the race car driver Danica’s Patrick supposedly beautiful widow’s peak and UFOs.

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  Trump told supporters in Phoenix he had some “good news” to share. “Would anybody like to hear about Iran?” the president asked. Trump went on to outline what he said were the terms of his tentative deal with Iran, which essentially replicates the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal struck by his predecessor Barack Obama.

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  In his Phoenix address, Trump also joked about the US military carrying out a series of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.

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  Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, the oldest and most rightwing supreme court justices, both plan to stay on the court rather than retire, CBS News and Fox report.

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  Trump’s childhood pastor, Norman Vincent Peale, was an anti-Catholic who orchestrated an effort to keep John F Kennedy from becoming president in 1960.

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Somewhat lost in the discussion this week of Donald Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo, for his criticism of the US attack on Iran, and the president’s decision to post an image of himself as Jesus Christ on social media, is the fact that Trump, while not currently a churchgoer, did attend services as a young man at the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, which was led at the time by an openly anti-Catholic pastor.

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That church’s pastor in Trump’s youth, Norman Vincent Peale, who would later officiate at Trump’s first wedding, is best-known today as the author of the Christian self-help book The Power of Positive Thinking, but when Trump was 14, Peale made national headlines as the leader of a group of Protestant churchmen who loudly objected to the presidential candidacy of John F Kennedy, on the grounds that he was a Catholic.

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