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Secretary of State Marco Rubio retained his title as “Secretary of Everything” Saturday night when he took a spin in the DJ booth at a family wedding.

Rubio got the nickname for his multiple high-profile jobs within the Trump administration, including interim national security advisor, and head archivist of the National Archives, among other roles.

White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino posted the wedding video to X, writing, “Our Great Secretary of State @MarcoRubio DJ’s weddings too! Here he is in action tonight at a family wedding…Let’s goooooo!!!”

Rubio sported headphones and seemed to confer with the hired DJ when playing “Shiver” by John Summit & HAYLA, much to the guests’ delight as they linked arms and chanted to the beat.

At one point, Rubio nodded his head and waved his arm to the chorus, which really got the crowd going.

Rubio was apparently taking some down time before heading to Rome to meet with Pope Leo XIV this week in an attempt to thaw relations with the Vatican. The pontiff and Donald Trump have been exchanging words via social media over Trump’s policies on the Iran war, immigration, and memes depicting the president as Jesus Christ.

Trump has said, “I’m not a fan of Pope Leo,” while the Holy Father responded that he has “no fear” of the Trump administration.

The visit will be Rubio’s third trip to Italy in 12 months. He’s also expected to meet with Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomat, as well as with Antonio Tajani, Italy’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister.

Rubio reportedly also asked to meet with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, but the request hasn’t yet been granted. Trump was critical of Meloni for standing behind Pope Leo during their war of words, and Rubio has denounced NATO allies for staying out of the Iran fracas.

The Pope turned his words into action on Friday, when he appointed former undocumented migrant Evelio Menjivar-Ayala as bishop of West Virginia in the United States. Menjivar-Ayala is originally from El Salvador and arrived in the US in 1990 hidden in the trunk of a car. He was ordained as a priest in 2004.

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MS NOW legal analyst Paul Butler argued the U.S. Supreme Court clearly does not “respect” the rights of Black and Brown voters after ruling that race-based gerrymandering violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Butler ripped the 6-3 ruling during an interview on MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime on Saturday night.

“In some ways, this is one of the worst Supreme Court decisions on race ever,” Butler said. “It’s actually worse than Plessy versus Ferguson. Plessy actually required formal equality, separate but equal. With this case, Black and Brown votes don’t have the same power as White votes.”

His comment stunned co-host Ayman Mohyeldin, who let out a “wow” as Butler made his case.

“It’s like the Dred Scott decision, where the court said that the Black man has no rights that the white man is bound to respect,” Butler continued. “The Supreme Court is saying that the Black voter and the Brown voter has no rights that it respects.”

And a minute later in the discussion, Butler was asked what the next step was for Democrats to counter the decision.

“So you ask, where do we go from here? A lot of Black people are just leaning on our history saying, we got through enslavement, we got through Jim Crow, somehow we’ll get through this.”

Butler shared his take a few days after the landmark 6-3 ruling voided Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district, with the court’s conservative-leaning justices finding it relied too heavily on race.

Chief Justice John Roberts said the Louisiana district was a “snake” created along racial lines. Justice Samuel Alito agreed, writing the map was an “unconstitutional gerrymander.”

“Allowing race to play any part in government decisionmaking represents a departure from the constitutional rule that applies in almost every other context,” Alito wrote.

Alito added the goals of the 1965 Voting Rights Act had been distorted by those looking to shape districts along racial lines, hoping to gain more seats in Congress. Section II of the law he said was  “limited to instances of intentional discrimination,” which he said is a “very high standard” to prove.

Butler — who teaches law at Georgetown University — was not the only pundit on the panel who was upset about the ruling. Co-host Catherine Rampell sounded pretty dejected by it while sitting across from Butler, asking out loud if the “remedy” for Democrats would be “packing the court.”

And CNN star Abby Phillip on Saturday worried the ruling could“eradicate” political representation for Black Americans and other minority groups in the South.

President Donald Trump, on the other hand, celebrated the decision on Wednesday.

“That’s good!” a giddy Trump said when a reporter told him about it. “That’s the kind of ruling I like.”

Watch above via MS NOW.

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Conservative host Tucker Carlson denied calling President Donald Trump the “antichrist” when pressed by New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro during a deep-dive sit-down for the paper’s show, The Interview.

Carlson has had a recent very public falling-out with the president over issues like the Iran war and memes depicting himself as Jesus Christ.

In one recent show, Carlson asked if Trump could be the antichrist, and on another show with accused rapist-turned-Christian Russell Brand, the two discussed Bible passages about the antichrist, with Carlson calling one passage, “Ripped from the headlines.”

“You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the ‘antichrist,'” Garcia-Navarro said during the interview, to which Carlson replied, “I have not said that.”

“On your show, the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in ceremony as president —”

“Correct,” Carlson agreed.

Garcia-Navarro continued, “— and you said, and I’m quoting, ‘Maybe he didn’t put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what’s inside that book.’ And then on a recent show, you went further, saying: ‘Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods and exalting himself above them. Could this be the antichrist?’”

“I actually did not say, ‘Could this be the Antichrist,'” Carlson maintained. “I don’t know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I’m not sure I fully understand what the antichrist is, if there’s just one. I actually tried to understand it. I may have said some are asking that. I am not weighing in on that because I don’t understand it.”

“So to be clear, though, that was not what you were suggesting?” Garcia-Navarro asked.

“If I thought Trump was the antichrist, I would just say so. If I understood what the antichrist is, I’d say so, and I don’t really,” Carlson answered.

“You’ve been discussing it repeatedly on your show, so I’m just trying to understand why,” Garcia-Navarro continued. “What do you want your audience to be considering?”

“I just want to make the point repeatedly again and again that there are unseen forces that act, that there is a spiritual realm, and we are subject to those forces for good and bad, and I don’t think that any person can deny that,” Carlson said.

Garcia-Navarro pressed one more time, saying, “I just want to make the point that you did say, ‘Could this be the antichrist?’ And then you said, ‘Well, who knows? You did use those words.”

This time, Carlson backed down.

“Man, then my apologies to you if there’s a video of me saying that,” he said. “I guess what I’m expressing to you is it doesn’t reflect exactly how I feel. It suggests a precision that I haven’t arrived at, that Trump is the antichrist. You’d have to define antichrist, and I know that I can’t define it, and it’s not clearly defined in the New Testament or Old Testament.”

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told Fox News host Jesse Watters everything that’s wrong with his own Democratic Party during a discussion about May Day demonstrations across the country on Friday.

“There’s a big problem when one party can’t love their own country unless it’s in charge. That ends badly for everybody, and Democrats seem to be heading in that direction,” Watters said before introducing Fetterman and asking, “How big of a threat do you think this communist movement is?”

“Well, I mean, you know, there’s that phrase where terrible or bad ideas refuse to die. And it’s very sad to see that kind of thing being revisited in this kind of way,” Fetterman said.

The senator continued:

And a lot of these, you know, these terrible groups like Code Pink and a lot of the other ones that are strongly aligned to the CCP, without a doubt, they’re being financed. I mean, it’s ironic. I mean, these kinds of protests are being funded by billionaires against billionaires. I mean, I don’t know if they realize the irony in many of those things right now.

And now there is kind of a small communist takeover in Maine, you know, [Graham] Platner? Platner, he’s already announced that he’s an avowed communist. He’s made that statement and he put that online. Now he’s going to be the Democratic nominee. So, there is a resurgent about the socialism, and that’s becoming more and more a part of it. And now there’s more, it’s like a marriage of the Palestinian, the anti-ICE, the abolish ICE, and now turning it in to like an orgy of socialism here.

That statement drew a laugh from Watters.

Fetterman continued, “And that’s sad because it’s supposed to be about labor, like, unions. I am an absolutely, I’m a proud pro-union Democrat. But the kinds of mess that you see are showing up in many of them. I mean, that’s, that is the worst impulses that are our party continues. We just seem to can’t resist those things.”

Watch above via Fox News.

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President Donald Trump took questions from reporters while departing the White House on Friday and made clear that the negotiations with Iran have yet to result in a deal he is happy with.

CNN’s Dana Bash cut from her show to the live feed of Trump, noting the president is “leaving for Florida. He’s on the South Lawn of the White House taking questions on Iran as he leaves. Let’s listen.”

“Can you tell us about the new Iranian proposal?” a reporter shouted.

Trump replied, “So they want to make a deal, but I don’t — I’m not satisfied with it, so we’ll see what happens. Iran wants to make the deal because they have no military left, essentially. And they want to make a deal, but I’m not satisfied.”

Another reporter then asked if Trump will seek congressional approval for the war and he replied, “Because it’s never been sought before. There’s been numerous, many, many times, and nobody’s ever gotten it before. They consider it totally unconstitutional. But we’re always in touch with Congress. But nobody’s ever sought it before, nobody’s asked for it before, it’s never been used before.”

“Are you willing to send anybody to Islamabad?” followed up another reporter.

“We have great respect for Pakistan and Islamabad and tremendous respect for the Prime Minister and the Field Marshal. And they’re working with us. They continue to work with us, but the trip is a very long one, and we’re doing everything in terms of negotiating right now in terms of the negotiation telephonically. They’ve made strides, but I’m not sure if they ever get there. There’s tremendous discord, there’s tremendous — they’re having a tremendous problem getting along with each other in Iran. The leadership is very disjointed. It’s got two to three groups, maybe four, and it’s a very disjointed leadership. And with that being said, they all want to make a deal, but they’re all messed up,” replied Trump.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed on Thursday that the United States is not at war with Iran, the day before a potential deadline to involve Congress in foreign military action.

The 1973 War Powers Act sets a 60-day deadline to conduct military strikes without Congressional approval. In regard to the strikes in Iran that began on February 28, the deadline would be Friday.

When approached by NBC News on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Johnson said the Iran conflict does not apply to the deadline because “we are not at war.”

“I don’t think we have an active, kinetic military bombing, firing, or anything like that. Right now, we are trying to broker a peace,” Johnson told NBC News. “I would be very reluctant to get in front of the administration in the midst of these very sensitive negotiations, so we’ll have to see how that plays out.”

When asked about the deadline, Johnson told the network, “We are not at war.”

He added: “We’re policing the Strait of Hormuz and trying to get a peace. The president and the administration are moving as aggressively as possible. There’s nothing Congress can do to move that along any further, so we’ll see how it plays out. That is my position.”

Under the War Powers Act, President Donald Trump can request a 30-day extension. It remains unclear whether he has or will. Trump himself has repeatedly called the conflict a “war.”

As he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. is currently not subject to the 60-day deadline while a ceasefire is in effect in the region

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