Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the day in US politics. We will return on Tuesday to continue chronicling the second Trump administration, but here are some of Monday’s main developments:
Federal and state authorities filed murder and hate crimes charges against Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspected attacker in Boulder, Colorado who hurled Molotov cocktails at a demonstration for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza, injuring 12 people.
The head of Ice defended his agency’s decision to arrest an 18-year-old Massachusetts high school student on his way to volleyball practice. US district judge Richard Stearns later ordered a 72-hour stay to “provide a fair opportunity for the judge who will be randomly assigned to this case” to review merits and rule on any contested issues in the case of Marcelo Gomes Da Silva.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) barred its 2025 class president from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after she delivered a speech during a commencement event the day before condemning Israel’s war in Gaza and criticizing the university’s ties to Israel.
China accused the US of “seriously violating” and undermining the agreements reached in Geneva in May.
Prosecutors in Milwaukee charged a man on Monday with four felonies for attempting to frame an undocumented immigrant he is accused of assaulting, by sending forged letters in the immigrant’s name with a threat to kill Donald Trump.
New York’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, announced on Monday that he is running for governor, setting up a Democratic primary battle against the sitting governor, Kathy Hochul, who selected him for the job as her deputy.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s senior Democrat, released a social media video on Monday in which he seemed to taunt Donald Trump for supposedly being too “chicken” in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
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Schumer tries to goad Trump away from nuclear deal with Iran
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s senior Democrat, released a social media video on Monday in which he seemed to taunt Donald Trump for supposedly being too weak in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
Schumer, a staunch ally of Israeli leaders who oppose any deal to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for that nation’s commitment that it will not build nuclear weapons, seemed to be responding to an Israeli journalist’s report that Trump’s negotiators, Steve Witkoff and March Rubio, might be open to letting Iran enrich uranium for civilian purposes.
In the video, Schumer referred to rumors that the US might agree, in “a secret side deal”, to let Iran proceed with low-grade enrichment, similar to the level agreed on in the Iran nuclear deal struck during the Obama administration, which Trump pulled out of during his first term.
Invoking the phrase “Trump always chickens out”, or Taco, Schumer said, “If Taco Trump is already folding, the American public should know about it
Although the international Iran nuclear deal struck by the Obama administration in 2015, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, was regarded as a huge success for diplomacy by many Democrats, it was strongly opposed by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and by some pro-Israel Democrats, including Schumer.
In 2015, Schumer voted against the deal.
