America’s political leaders described the 2024 presidential election as a life-or-death crucible long before a man opened fire at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania, wounding the former president and killing a supporter. Since then, Trump’s allies have moved quickly to blame liberals and the media for the would-be assassin’s actions, before any public evidence of his motivations. Biden’s campaign has ...
Lawmakers in the House and Senate said Sunday they would investigate the apparent assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, demanding documents and testimony from the U.S. Secret Service, while others moved to enhance the security provided to presidential candidates. At the center of the maelstrom on Capitol Hill are questions posed by Republicans and Democrats alike about the agency ...
MILWAUKEE — Law enforcement officials said Sunday they are not increasing security for this week’s Republican National Convention, even as Wisconsin’s Democratic governor pushed to expand where guns would be restricted. The law enforcement officials said they developed a robust plan over 18 months that does not need to be updated after the shooting Saturday at former president Donald Trump’s ...
Three of the finalists to be former president Donald Trump’s running mate have responded in different ways to Saturday’s shooting at a Pennsylvania rally, which the authorities have called an assassination attempt. As many elected officials have over the past 24 hours, Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, issued public statements responding ...
Voters in Rwanda lined up at polling stations on Monday to elect their next president, with 66-year-old incumbent Paul Kagame, who has ruled the central African country for nearly a quarter of a century, expected to cruise to victory. Kagame has won more than 93% of the vote at each of the three previous elections. Eight candidates had applied to ...
As dramatic images of the failed assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump spread around the world Saturday, news of the attack also sparked immerse online interest – as well as pointed criticism of the US – on China’s heavily censored internet. Discussion of the assassination attempt, in which a gunman opened fire at a Trump campaign rally in ...
A man has been charged with two counts of murder following the discovery of human remains at a famous bridge in southwest England. Yostin Andres Mosquera, a 34-year-old Colombian national, was arrested in Bristol early Saturday and charged on Monday, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. The remains were found in suitcases at Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol last ...
At least 22 people were killed in a strike Saturday that hit a makeshift mosque in a displacement camp in west Gaza City, according to an official at the hospital treating the casualties. Video of the scene shows bodies lying on what appear to be mats laid out for prayer. Multiple dead and wounded people can be seen missing limbs. ...
A small corner of Venezuela is spreading slowly along 77th Street in Bogota, the capital of Colombia. Municipal maps formally refer to that neighborhood as Unir II (“unite”), but to many of its inhabitants it is known as Barrio Hugo Chavez, after the late Venezuelan president. Many of the more than seven million Venezuelans who fled their country over the past decade ...
Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla are planning to head down under. The royal couple will travel to Australia in October as part of a tour that will also see them visit Samoa for this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Buckingham Palace announced on Sunday. The forthcoming visit to Australia will be the 75-year-old British monarch’s first trip ...