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Spain Mourns Urda Train Crash Victims

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A Catholic funeral mass for the 69 Urda train crash victims was held in Toledo Cathedral, with King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia attending. The government was represented by Vice President Carlos Cuerpo and other ministers. The ceremony was organized by the archdiocese, not officially declared a state funeral by the Council of Ministers.

Gov. Wes Moore said he would work with anyone, including Stephen Miller, on bipartisan deals such as immigration, while insisting “I will work with anybody, I will bow to nobody.”

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A Catholic funeral mass for the 69 Urda train crash victims was held in Toledo Cathedral, with King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia attending. The government was represented by Vice President Carlos Cuerpo and other ministers. The ceremony was organized by the archdiocese, not officially declared a state funeral by the Council of Ministers.

LIVE: Spain holds state funeral for victims of Urda train crash https://t.co/3ftNS95Bbh

Original post · @Reuters

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Gov. Wes Moore said he would work with anyone, including Stephen Miller, on bipartisan deals such as immigration, while insisting “I will work with anybody, I will bow to nobody.”

Gov. Wes Moore said Dems should work toward bipartisan deals, including on immigration, with Stephen Miller — despite the “well of distrust” he holds for the new White House chief of staff.👇 “I will work with anybody, I will bow to nobody,” he told us. 🔗 https://t.co/iHzezOkcLl

Original post · @politico

Politico NAMES: Stephen Miller is White House chief of staff; Wes Moore is the governor of Maryland. POST 2118785127459533237: NOCLAIM N/A

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What the hosts said

BSpain is burying its dead today after that Urda train crash, and even the live label is wrong.
BWhat's the mistake?
BReuters posted on X that Spain is holding a state funeral. It isn't.
BThen what is it?
BA Catholic mass in Toledo Cathedral.
BSo not a state funeral?
BUnder Spanish protocol, only the Council of Ministers can call it that. It didn't.
BThe king and queen were there?
BKing Felipe, Queen Letizia, ministers, opposition. Real ceremony, wrong label.
BA nation mourning sixty-nine dead, whatever the official title.
BThat's the point. The church organized it, not the state.
BDifferent story now, and the Middle East is on edge.
BYou mean the security alerts?
BSulaiman Ahmed posted on X that the U.S. issued alerts at eleven Middle East missions.
BEleven?
BJordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Yemen.
BMario Nawfal has the same list. He ties it to Iranian plots and Houthi attacks.
BBut right now that's only on X. No State Department notice.
BSecurity alerts can be quiet. But a list this long leaves a trail.
BExactly. Iran and the Gulf states in the same warning would be a huge footprint.
BSo it's a claim, not a fact. Treat it that way.
BAnd that claim feeds a louder fight about why America is there at all.
BInsurrection Barbie posted on X that the idea America is only in the Middle East because of Israel is "historically illiterate."
BShe says U.S. interests there predate Israel. The facts back that.
BOil drove the relationship, then the Cold War. That's before 1948.
BTrue. But today Israel is one of the biggest drivers, and her post acts like that's revisionism.
BNo, she's against the phrase "only because of Israel." That erases oil, shipping, bases.
BAnd her post erases how much Israel shapes U.S. policy right now.
BIt doesn't erase it. It says the history is bigger than one country.
BThen say that. Calling people historically illiterate isn't an argument.
BIt's a response to a cheap argument that flips every conversation into a fight.
BI hear that cheap argument. But some people making it see the present clearly.
BSeeing the present isn't enough if you misread why we got there.
BFine. History and present, both true. Can we move?
BOnly if you admit FDR matters as much as the current embassy.
BI'll give you FDR. But don't pretend the current embassy is irrelevant.
BDeal.
BDifferent world entirely: Wes Moore.
BMaryland's governor says he'll work with Stephen Miller on immigration.
BPolitico reports his exact words: "I will work with anybody, I will bow to nobody."
BThat's a line meant for a primary.
BHe also says he has a "well of distrust" for the new chief of staff.
BThen working on immigration with him is a real break from his party.
BThat's what makes it news. Most Democrats won't say enforcement.
BHe didn't give details. But the signal is clear.
BCould be smart politics, or the last bipartisan Democrat standing.
BWe'll see how long it lasts.

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