Officials from Beaver County, Pennsylvania, disputed several portions of acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr.’s testimony before a Senate panel Tuesday. Rowe was quick to deflect blame to local law enforcement for allowing a man to attempt to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13. Rowe and FBI...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ list of potential running mates is rumored to include Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose record with law enforcement has been mostly played in “the middle of the road,” one police union leader said. Whitmer, who is in her second term as governor after climbing the political ranks, would bring experience as...
PITTSBURGH – Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Tuesday asked the Secret Service’s new acting director why the “public has lost trust” in the agency’s “mission to protect” after a July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “This agency needs to change, and if not now, when? The...
Questions about whether the parents of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks could face charges resulting from their son’s shooting crimes have arisen as officials release more information about his secluded personality and lack of a social life. “You’d have to prove in some way beyond a reasonable doubt that [Crooks’ parents] aided and abetted his...
The head of a prominent police union on Tuesday accused the acting head of the U.S. Secret Service of shifting blame after he told Congress that local authorities were supposed to have covered the rooftop where a gunman opened fire on former President Trump in a failed assassination attempt. Patrick Yoes, National President of the...
BUTLER, Pa. – The deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service, Ronald Rowe Jr., has been appointed as the acting director of the embattled agency after Kimberly Cheatle announced her resignation. Rowe testified on Tuesday, just over a week after Cheatle’s testimony that ultimately led her to step down. Rowe has assumed the helm of...
BUTLER, Pa. – The man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump and successfully killed one of his supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania, scoped out the sight of the July 13 rally while local law enforcement officers were in position. A detailed timeline and accompanying text messages, obtained by Fox News Digital from Sen. Chuck Grassley,...
PITTSBURGH – Former President Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, has vowed to return to holding outdoor rallies after surviving an assassination attempt at one in Pennsylvania on July 13 – and after the Secret Service urged him to shift his campaign events indoors in what some experts see as an admission of failure. Writing...
An Abilene, Texas, man who was arrested last year after being linked by DNA to a 1982 cold case has died while out on bond and awaiting trial. The Abilene Police Department said on Facebook that 66-year-old Billye Brown, the suspect in an ongoing cold case murder investigation into the 1982 deaths of then 30-year-old...
BUTLER, Pa. – Text messages revealed that law enforcement responsible for monitoring former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally spotted his would-be assassin and flagged him to colleagues as suspicious at least 90 minutes before he opened fire. The messages, obtained by Fox News Digital from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who obtained them from Beaver County Emergency...
