Tuesday’s Mini-Report, 5.5.26

Today’s edition of quick hits.

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* Marco Rubio echoed the line the White House has touted for several weeks, but U.S. aircraft carriers still aren’t facing West: “Rubio said ‘Operation Epic Fury,’ the Trump administration’s name for the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, is ‘over.’”

* The revised death toll from these boat strikes has reached at least 187: “The U.S. military said on Monday that it had struck another boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing two men as part of a campaign against people the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs by sea.”

* An important ruling from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals: “A second federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to lock up the majority of people it is seeking to deport, without an opportunity for release on bond — even if they have no criminal records and have resided in the country for decades.”

* In related news: “President Donald Trump’s immigration raids and checkpoints are weighing on the labor market, leading to fewer jobs for both U.S.-born men without a college degree as well as undocumented immigrants, according to an economic study out this week.”