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Rubio heads to Rome with Trump’s Iran clash looming over Pope Leo, Meloni talks

Secretary of State Marco Rubio previewed a high-profile trip to Rome from the White House briefing room Tuesday, delivering sharp warnings to Iran and flashing easy command of the podium that drew praise from conservative allies online."The trip is really not tied to anything other than the fact that it would be normal for us to engage, and other secretaries of state have done that in the past," Rubio said at the White House press conference on Tuesday of his trip to Italy. The briefing came two days before Rubio is set to visit the Vatican and Italy for meetings amid heightened tensions betwe...