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Trump moves Camp David cabinet meeting to White House as Iran talks continueRobert Tait<\/p>\n
Donald Trump will host the 12th cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday as talks on ending the nearly three-month war with Iran reach a crucial stage amid conflicting signals over whether an agreement is close.<\/p>\n
The gathering had originally been scheduled to take place in the bucolic setting of Camp David, the presidential retreat that had previously been the site of sensitive Middle East negotiations, including the historic Israeli-Egyptian peace accords.<\/p>\n
But Trump switched it back to its more accustomed White House setting, citing adverse weather forecasts.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on the possible bad weather conditions tomorrow, we will be having our Cabinet Meeting in the White House, and will be postponing the Cabinet trip to Camp David,\u201d he wrote<\/a> on his Truth Social platform. Heavy rain is expected in the area on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The initial decision to stage it at Camp David had raised eyebrows, given that Trump had visited the presidential retreat deep in the Maryland countryside, 62 miles north-west of Washington, much less frequently than most of his predecessors.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Veteran Texas congressman Al Green beaten in Democratic primary runoff<\/p>\n Uwa Ede-Osifo<\/p>\n Christian Menefee, a freshman Democratic US representative, beat veteran congressman Al Green on Tuesday in a fierce runoff that was the product of Republican gerrymandering.<\/p>\n Last year, the Republican-dominated Texas legislature unveiled a congressional map designed to flip seats in the GOP\u2019s favor. Donald Trump<\/a> had urged the state\u2019s lawmakers to safeguard the party\u2019s congressional majority.<\/p>\n Under the new map, Green, a congressional fixture for over two decades and a staunch Trump critic, saw his reliably Democratic ninth district effectively eliminated<\/a>. He announced a bid for the 18th district in November.<\/p>\n Menefee was sworn into the seat in January, after winning a special election to replace the late US representative Sylvester Turner.<\/p>\n On the campaign trail, Green sought to link Menefee with big-money politics, accusing his challenger of being aligned with \u201cTrump crypto cronies\u201d, Houston Public Media reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Green\u2019s protests of the Trump administration<\/a> have garnered national attention in recent years.<\/p>\n In February, he was ejected from the president\u2019s State of the Union address after holding a sign that read \u201cBlack people aren\u2019t apes!\u201d It was a counter to Trump sharing a racist AI-generated video<\/a> where Barack and Michelle Obama were depicted as the simians.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Trump endorsement ‘most powerful force in politics’, says Paxton after runoff victory<\/p>\n Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.<\/p>\n Texas attorney-general Ken Paxton said Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement is \u201cthe most powerful force in politics\u201d as he comfortably won the Republican nomination for the Senate last night.<\/p>\n Paxton defeating four-term senator John Cornyn in the latest contest where president Donald Trump sought to oust an incumbent he saw as insufficiently loyal, AP reported.<\/p>\n Trump endorsed Paxton, calling him a \u201ctrue MAGA warrior\u201d, with Paxton\u2019s victory in the runoff making Cornyn \u2013 who was first elected to the Senate in 2002 – the first Republican senator from Texas<\/a> to lose the party\u2019s nomination for reelection.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen everyone in Washington told him to abandon me and abandon the people of Texas, he didn\u2019t listen,\u201d Paxton said. \u201cPresident Trump is the leader of our party, and his endorsement is the most powerful force in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n Cornyn\u2019s loss followed primaries this month where Trump successfully backed challengers to Republican lawmakers who had displeased him in Louisiana, Kentucky and Indiana, a sign of his enduring influence among primary voters.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter a public service career lasting more than four decades and 18 consecutive campaign wins, tonight we\u2019ve come up short in this primary runoff,\u201d Cornyn said shortly after the race was called. \u201cI\u2019ve always supported the GOP ticket. I intend to do so again this general election.\u201d<\/p>\n The race had wide implications for Trump\u2019s strength heading into November\u2019s midterm elections, where Paxton will now face James Talarico, a Democratic pastor and state legislator whose message of peace and populism has attracted much attention. If he wins, Talarico would become the first Democrat in more than 30 years to win statewide office in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n In other developments:<\/p>\n Christian Menefee defeated Al Green to represent Texas\u2019s newly redrawn 18th congressional district. Green, 78, had served 11 terms as a Democrat, earning a reputation as one of Donald Trump\u2019s top critics, when he became the first member of Congress to call for his impeachment, as early as 2017. Menefee, 38, began serving in Congress earlier this year after he won a special election. The two Democrats faced off against each other in this year\u2019s election after Republican redistricting saw their home districts near Houston redrawn.<\/p>\n Two Republican-led efforts to redraw congressional maps in Alabama and South Carolina hit setbacks. In Alabama, a federal court said the proposed map could not be used because it was drawn to intentionally discriminate against Black voters. The South Carolina Senate voted against redrawing the state\u2019s congressional map due to political and administrative reasons.<\/p>\n Construction is under way on the White House lawn for a UFC arena that will host a cage-match next month to mark the United States\u2019s 250th anniversary and Donald Trump\u2019s 80th birthday. The mixed martial arts fight is planned for 14 June.<\/p>\n Donald Trump completed his annual physical after year of public attention to health issues. Trump, the oldest inaugurated president in US history, completed a physical exam on Tuesday at Walter Reed national military medical center, amid questions around his health. \u201cEverything checked out PERFECTLY,\u201d the US president declared in a social media post.<\/p>\n The Trump administration considered asking federal workers to sign NDAs. The goal of asking federal employees to sign nondisclosure agreements is to prevent them from sharing confidential information with journalists.<\/p>\n