The U.S. Secret Service did not see warnings from local police about the gunman at former president Donald Trump’s campaign rally last month in part because they were stationed in separate command centers that hurt communication, the agency’s acting director said Friday. Ronald Rowe Jr. said the agency takes full responsibility for the security failure […]Read More

The U.S. military is repositioning assets and moving additional defensive capabilities into the Middle East to defend against a potential attack on Israel by Iran, U.S. officials said. The moves come after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate after the killing this week of Hamas leader Ismail […]Read More

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris hired a battery of new senior advisers to her campaign this week, moving swiftly to replace lifetime loyalists of President Biden with Democratic campaign veterans, including multiple leaders of Barack Obama’s presidential bids, according to people briefed on the campaign shifts. David Plouffe, a top strategist on both of […]Read More

Vice President Harris secured a majority of the pledged delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party officials announced Friday, officially making her the party’s presidential nominee and concluding an unprecedented process after the former Democratic standard-bearer dropped out less than two weeks ago. The more than 4,000 convention delegates had until Monday to […]Read More

Vice President Harris has narrowed her search for a running mate to six finalists and is planning to conduct interviews with them this weekend, according to two people familiar with the process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential deliberations. Those finalists are Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, […]Read More

PARIS — Fresh off her second gold medal win at the Paris Olympics, U.S. gymnast Simone Biles seemed to take a dig at Donald Trump with a social media post declaring: “I love my black job.” The former president and Republican candidate has prompted criticism — and internet memes — for asserting without evidence during […]Read More

JD Vance, Donald Trump’s newly minted running mate, has posted his life on the internet for nearly two decades. In 2005, while serving as a combat correspondent in Iraq, he started a blog. In 2012, he created his first public Spotify playlist, “Making Dinner,” which featured Backstreet Boys, Justin Bieber and Florence + The Machine. […]Read More