The assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Pennsylvania was a chilling and frightening moment in the history of a country that has seen too many such shootings. We are all grateful, of course, that the former president was not wounded more seriously and for the Secret Service agents who protected him. I am especially grateful...
CLAIRTON, Pa. – The Pennsylvania gun club where would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks practiced his aim was open Monday after visits from the FBI amid a probe into the deadly security breach that let an armed madman within 130 yards of the former president. It was not immediately clear whether investigators found anything of...
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle tells ABC News she plans to stay on despite growing calls for her resignation over the assassination attempt on formerPresident Donald Trump on Saturday. In an exclusive interview, Cheatle condemned the shooting and said the “buck stops with her.” She also said she has no plans to step down....
A second suspect has been arrested in Texas in connection with the ambush killing of a Houston-area deputy last week, according to officials. Dremone Francis, 26, was charged with capital murder in the death of Harris County Deputy Fernando Esqueda and has been booked in the Harris County Jail, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote on social...
CNN initially reported the Saturday assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump as if the former president had merely fallen off a stage – a characterization that swiftly earned condemnation from conservative lawmakers and those commenting on social media. “Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally,” CNN’s headline read shortly after...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Days after a would-be assassin killed a bystander and wounded two others while trying to kill former President Donald Trump, questions remain about how an armed man was able to climb onto a rooftop less than 150 yards from a major political candidate with a rifle and a clear line of...
BUTLER, Pa. – On Saturday, July 13, an assassination attempt against former President Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, rocked the nation. Authorities neutralized the 20-year-old assailant, Thomas Crooks, after shots rang out, and a federal investigation into the shooting targeting the former president ensued. Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before the...
BUTLER, Penn. – Some Trump rally attendees in Butler, Pennsylvania, had been waiting around the Butler Farm Show grounds since 8 a.m. Saturday so they’d get a good view of the former president when the event began later that day. Trump had traveled to the close-knit, rural town north of Pittsburgh four years ago, in...
Police in Kenya said Monday they have arrested the main suspect after nine dismembered bodies of women were found in a quarry in the capital, Nairobi. The head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, said Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, had confessed to killing 42 women, including his wife, since 2022. They gave no...
The Senate is opening an investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump and the security failures that led to it. Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., will lead the investigation after shots were fired on Saturday night at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving Trump bloodied...
