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 […]Read More

Donald Trump, who was injured in what authorities are calling an assassination attempt Saturday, touched down in Milwaukee Sunday evening after calling for Americans to unite as his party prepared to officially nominate him this week at the Republican National Convention. “Based on yesterday’s terrible events, I was going to delay my trip to Wisconsin, […]Read More

At a conservative evangelical church in Visalia, a farming community in the central valley of California, the pastor’s sermon Sunday included a reminder that trumpets sounded a warning to Christians when judgment was coming. The gunshots fired at Donald Trump on Saturday, according to the Rev. Joel Renkema, were also a trumpet blare, a “clear […]Read More

BETHEL PARK, Pa. — The FBI said Sunday that investigators have not yet identified any ideology fueling the gunman who fired at former president Donald Trump at a packed campaign rally, and they believe he carried out the horrifying assassination attempt on his own. The gunman was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel […]Read More

In the chaotic hours after former president Donald Trump was spirited offstage Saturday by Secret Service agents, his face streaked with blood, a doctored photo of the scene began bouncing around on X, falsely showing Trump with a wide smile. The faked photo was held up as bolstering a baseless theory, promoted among some on […]Read More

Donald Trump deemed cryptocurrency “a scam” and a “disaster waiting to happen” during his term in office. In the official Republican Party platform that Trump edited last week, he struck a different tone. “Republicans will end Democrats’ unlawful and un-American crypto crackdown and oppose the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency,” reads the platform, […]Read More

First Lt. Daniel Weiss was a 25-year-old Army Ranger preparing for his fourth combat deployment to Afghanistan when he died by suicide at his Tacoma, Wash., apartment in 2012. There were difficult days after that, recalled his father, Andy. But what proved both surprising and hurtful, he said, were efforts to ensure his son’s death […]Read More

Reactions from government leaders were pouring in shortly after a shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa., Saturday afternoon, with Democrats and Republicans alike denouncing the violence. “There is no place in America for this kind of violence,” President Biden said in remarks from the Rehoboth Beach, Del., police department. “It’s sick. … It […]Read More

BUTLER, Pa. — Former president Donald Trump was rushed offstage from a campaign rally here on Saturday evening, where a shooting left two other people dead, authorities said. A Trump campaign spokesman said Trump was taken to a medical facility but is “fine.” Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger said two people are dead, including […]Read More

President Biden met with key Democrats on Saturday afternoon to urge them to back his reelection efforts, but some lawmakers came away from the meetings frustrated that the president did not directly answer some of their questions, according to several lawmakers on the calls. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus […]Read More