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

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