This live blog is now closed. Jon Husted and Sherrod Brown set for Senate showdown after Ohio primary victories Trump-backed Republicans win big in Indiana primaries in coup for president Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”. The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump’s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Continue reading...