A shooting at former president Donald Trump’s campaign rally Saturday evening — which is being investigated as an assassination attempt — upended the already dark and tumultuous race for the White House. Trump’s campaign said he still plans to attend the Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to begin in Milwaukee on Monday. But the […]Read More

BUTLER, Pa. — The gunshots were high-pitched pops, slight and hollow in the open air. Donald Trump, the former president set to accept the Republican nomination in five days, was less than 10 minutes into his speech here to a crowd of tens of thousands. A miles-long line of cars crawled for hours to pass […]Read More

Top allies of Donald Trump quickly accused President Biden and his supporters of using rhetoric that led to a shooting and potential assassination attempt Saturday at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pa., even as Biden condemned the attack and called on the nation to unite against political violence. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a potential […]Read More

BUTLER, Pa. — Former president Donald Trump on Saturday was rushed offstage with blood dripping down his face after a shooting that the authorities are investigating as an assassination attempt. One attendee was killed and two others were critically injured at the campaign rally, the Secret Service said, a shocking turn in a tense election […]Read More

Law enforcement officials quickly launched an investigation into the Saturday night shooting of Donald Trump as an assassination attempt, offering few details. That did not stop a torrent of unsubstantiated theories from flooding social media and other channels shortly after the event. Some accounts from the left of the political spectrum immediately claimed that the […]Read More

BUTLER, Pa. — Former president Donald Trump on Saturday was rushed offstage with blood dripping down his face after a shooting that the authorities called an assassination attempt. One attendee was killed and two others were critically injured at the campaign rally, the Secret Service said, a shocking turn in a tense election season where […]Read More

The FBI named 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa., as the suspected shooter in what it described as an assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. The Secret Service said its agents “neutralized” the shooter, who is now dead. Trump said in a post on […]Read More

A federal judge in New York on Friday threw out Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, paving the way for a litany of creditors, including two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation claim against him, to pursue and potentially seize his assets. The decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane in the Southern […]Read More

DETROIT — President Biden on Friday faced a continuing drip of statements from Democrats urging him to step aside as their presidential nominee, as at least two more lawmakers joined the calls for him to end his candidacy and underlined that this week’s high-stakes news conference had not squelched concerns in the party that he […]Read More

Meta announced Friday it’s rolling back heightened restrictions on former president Donald Trump’s social media accounts — an effort to give the Republican presidential contender more leeway to share content in a heated campaign season. The social media giant said it’s loosening the more rigorous consequences for Trump if he breaks their content rules, such […]Read More