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☆ Trump Shooting Live Updates: Lawmakers Assail Decision to Let Rally Go Ahead
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

But the Secret Service, the agency charged with protecting Mr. Trump, did not stop him from taking the stage. Eight minutes after Mr. Trump started to speak, Mr. Crooks fired off bullets that left the Republican presidential nominee bloodied and a rally visitor dead. Image Secret Service snipers surveilling the surrounding area before Mr. Trump began to speak. But that created a blind spot, outside the security perimeter but well within rifle range of Mr. Trump. Mr. Crooks also typed in “major depressive disorder” and searched for dates and places for appearances for both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.

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Vance’s Republican National Convention speech capped a night Republicans spent prosecuting what they see as President Joe Biden’s biggest foreign policy failures and their consequences. Republicans used Wednesday night to introduce Vance and his life story to the nation. You owe President Trump answers!” Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn shouted at Cheatle, who continued to walk with her head down and ignore the senators’ criticism. Energy security and energy policy are in the governor’s comfort zone and that was on full display Wednesday night. When Trump finally did call Burgum, the former president told Burgum he would not be his running mate.

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About an hour before a gunman let loose a volley of bullets that nearly assassinated a former president, the law enforcement contingent in Butler, Pa., was on the verge of a great policing success. Among the thousands of people streaming in to cheer former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday, local officers spotted one skinny young man acting oddly and notified other law enforcement. The suspicious man did not appear to have a weapon. Remarkably, law enforcement had found the right man — Thomas Matthew Crooks, a would-be assassin, though officers did not know that at the time. Twenty minutes before violence erupted, a sniper, from a distance, spotted Mr. Crooks again and took his picture.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, — Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks Locations: Butler, Pa

But the Secret Service, the agency charged with protecting Mr. Trump, did not stop him from taking the stage. Image Secret Service snipers surveilling the surrounding area before Mr. Trump began to speak. But that created a blind spot, outside the security perimeter but well within rifle range of Mr. Trump. was able to finally access Mr. Crooks’s cellphones and other electronic devices, agents could see that he had searched for images of Mr. Trump as well as President Biden, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and even F.B.I. Mr. Crooks also had at typed in “major depressive disorder” and searched for dates and places for appearances for both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.

☆ Biden in Oval Office address calls for calm, says political change happens 'at the ballot box, not with bullets'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

An assassination attempt was made against Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. President Joe Biden, speaking from the Oval Office, condemned the attack and political violence. Americans resolve political differences "at the ballot box, not with bullets," Biden said. AdvertisementPresident Joe Biden on Sunday called for calm and denounced all forms of political violence following the assassination attempt against his political rival Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. Addressing the nation from the Oval Office, he acknowledged how he and Trump have differing visions for America and that his political opponent will likely criticize him on his record.

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☆ Live Election Updates: G.O.P. Convention to Open as F.B.I. Hunts for Would-Be Assassin’s Motive
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

There is no place in America for this kind of violence — for any violence ever, period. “I’m sincerely grateful that he’s doing well and recovering,” Mr. Biden said. And the White House said that Mr. Biden would keep his campaign events in Las Vegas. Mr. Biden will speak at an NAACP conference on Tuesday and a UnidosUS conference on Wednesday, even as Mr. Trump and his party hold the Republican convention in Milwaukee. In both sets of remarks on Sunday, Mr. Biden made a plea that — if recent history is any guide — seemed unlikely to be heeded by activists on either side of the nation’s increasingly bitter divide.

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☆ For 18 unprecedented days, Trump has kept coming out on top
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On Monday, Trump got another victory, at least for now: Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the federal government's classified documents case against him. July 13: Surviving an assassination attemptAt a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, Trump narrowly avoided an attempt on his life. AdvertisementBut there's also no denying the political advantage that the attempted assassination gives Trump. Trump was escorted off-stage as Evan Vucci snapped his now-famous photo of the former president after an assassination attempt. Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the federal government's classified documents case against Trump, ruling that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional.

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☆ For Biden, How to Cool the Temperature Without Freezing His Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nothing less than the future of America is at stake. The assassination attempt over the weekend has complicated President Biden’s argument now that former President Donald J. Trump has gone from being a longtime instigator of political violence to a victim of it. Vance of Ohio, instantly blamed Mr. Biden, citing his sharp rhetoric. But the images of Mr. Trump with blood streaked across his face after being grazed by a would-be assassin’s bullet raise the question of how far language should go in a heated campaign. At the same time, Mr. Biden and his team have made clear that they will not back off efforts to demonstrate that Mr. Trump is a budding dictator who is dangerous to the country.

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☆ What dismissal of ‘Rust’ case against Alec Baldwin could mean for convicted film armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Ramon Sanchez | Ray Sanchez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The dramatic dismissal of the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alec Baldwin over withheld evidence could mean the release of convicted “Rust” movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed from a New Mexico state prison, legal experts say. But the Baldwin case imploded on Friday – just two days after the trial began – with the sudden and shocking twists and turns of a nail-biting legal thriller. “I fully expect Hannah Gutierrez Reed to make the same argument for her conviction to be overturned,” Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN. Her ruling regarding the failure to disclose the ammunition should carry significant weight in the Gutierrez Reed case, CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson said. Hannah Gutierrez Reed will go free as well.

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☆ Ukraine's soldiers don't have time to grieve and can't risk falling apart, psychiatrist says after visiting front lines
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Ella Sherman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"It layers on, these losses, these injuries, the ungrieved pain," Brockdorf told Business Insider. Ukrainian soldiers walk past a volunteer bus burning after a Russian drone hit it near Bakhmut. Ukrainian soldiers firing mortars from trench positions. Pierre Crom/Getty ImagesSome of Ukraine's soldiers have been serving on the front lines for long stretches as Ukraine grapples with manpower shortages. AdvertisementAnd, indeed, that damage can be lasting, which is why Brockdorf says it's important to be there for Ukrainian soldiers.

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☆ Biden orders independent probe of Trump rally's security after the assassination attempt on the former president
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

President Joe Biden on Sunday said that he has ordered an independent investigation into the security for the rally where a shooter attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump. "I've directed an independent review of the national security of yesterday's rally, and we will share the results of that independent review as well," he said on Sunday afternoon. There will also be a review of the security plan for the Republican National Convention, which begins in Milwaukee on Monday. Both the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have said that the party's major event will still go on as planned. The president also extended his condolences to Corey Comperatore, who was killed while shielding his family after shots rang out at the Trump rally.

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☆ What CNN’s reporter saw on the ground when Trump was attacked
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Alayna Treene | Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —CNN reporter Alayna Treene covers Donald Trump and was at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when shots rang out on Saturday. We had just gone live right at the top of 6 p.m. and had begun listening to Donald Trump. ‘Could this be part of the program?’ One woman I spoke with today — her name was Renee — she was saying she was directly behind Donald Trump, on the stands behind him, and she had said she didn’t really understand what was happening until she saw Donald Trump go down. Something really bad is happening.’Video Ad Feedback Harrowing details of the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump 03:15 - Source: CNNWhat happened next? A campaign rally site for Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris Saturday, July 13, in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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☆ Live Updates: Authorities Find Explosives in Car of Gunman Killed in Assassination Attempt on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Michael D. Shear | Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

“I will Never Surrender!” Mr. Trump wrote in a text message to supporters. And Mr. Trump is preparing to name his running mate and formally claim his party’s nomination for the third consecutive election. Vance of Ohio, who is on the shortlist of candidates that Mr. Trump is considering as a running mate, wrote on X. “An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation,” Mr. Biden said. Mr. Trump had assured Malphine Fogel, who lives in Butler County, that he would help get her son home.

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☆ Opinion | A Shooting Changes a Family. And It Can Change a Nation.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Patti Davis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

At first I was angry, thinking, “Now they’re intruding on my therapy sessions?” But then I saw how pale his face was. I don’t know where Donald Trump’s family members were when bullets were fired at his Pennsylvania rally, injuring him, killing one attendee and seriously injuring two others. I don’t know if this event will soften any of that. I don’t know if the Trump family will have the same experience I did — that of a nation setting politics aside and simply responding in a human and humane way. I also don’t know how, or if, this experience will change Mr. Trump.

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☆ Opinion | The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to America
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Americans received a sobering reminder on Saturday of the threat that political violence poses to our democracy. There is much we don’t know yet about the gunman and the shooting, which is being investigated as an attempted assassination. Violence is antithetical to democracy. Ballots, not bullets, should always be the means by which Americans work through their differences. Saturday’s attack should not be taken as a provocation or a justification.

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☆ Alec Baldwin trial paused after his lawyers accuse prosecutors of hiding evidence
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Alec Baldwin's lawyers accused prosecutors of hiding evidence in the involuntary manslaughter case. The judge sent the jury home following the surprise motion to dismiss. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementIn a shocking moment on Friday, Alec Baldwin's lawyers accused prosecutors of hiding evidence in a surprise motion to dismiss his involuntary manslaughter case. Bullets that Baldwin's lawyers said prosecutors did not disclose and put under a different case number, The New York Times reported.

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☆ Alec Baldwin trial on hold as judge considers defense request to dismiss case over disputed ammo
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Alec Baldwin 's involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico was put on hold Friday while the judge considers a defense motion to dismiss the case over disputed ammunition evidence. "We don't know if it's a live ammunition match or not," Baldwin's attorney Luke Nikas told the judge. The prosecution has said that the ammunition was not connected to the case and was not hidden. The issue came up Thursday on the second day of trial during defense questioning of sheriff's crime scene technician Marissa Poppell. "This is a wild goose chase that has no evidentiary value whatsoever," Morrissey told the judge Friday.

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Timoteo Benavidez: The retired Sante Fe Police Department lieutenant was the day shift command on the day of the 2021 shooting on the “Rust” set. When he checked the gun, Benavidez testified there were no rounds in it. The retired Sante Fe Police Department lieutenant was the day shift command on the day of the 2021 shooting on the “Rust” set. When he checked the gun, Benavidez testified there were no rounds in it. The detective at Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department testified for the prosecution, giving details oh how the director of “Rust” was treated for his injury.

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☆ Putin hosts India’s PM to deepen ties, but Ukraine looms over their relationship
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi walk during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence near Moscow, Russia July 8, 2024. Their partnership has become more complicated, however, as Russia has moved closer to China amid international isolation of Moscow over Ukraine. Russian state media reported that they would also discuss Moscow helping India build more nuclear power plants. The two countries already are collaborating on the Kudankulam nuclear power project in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. With Moscow's arms industries mostly serving the Russian military in Ukraine, India has been diversifying its defense procurements, buying more from the U.S., Israel, France and Italy.

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☆ AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Vending machines that dispense bullets have been rolled out in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. The machines use facial recognition for age and ID verification. AdvertisementThe US has rolled out AI-powered vending machines that dispense bullets to customers aged over 21 who have valid IDs. Various stores in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas have installed ammo-vending machines that use 360-degree facial recognition to check a person's age and ID. The vending machines, made by ammunition distribution company American Rounds, are designed to make ammo available 24/7.

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☆ Napoleon’s ornate flintlock pistols sell for $1.83 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Two flintlock Gossard pistols once owned by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have sold at auction for €1.69 million ($1.83 million). They were originally valued at an estimated €1.2 million-€1.5 million ($1.3 million- $1.63 million). According to the auctioneer, they were given to Napoleon’s friend and squire Armand de Caulaincourt just after the emperor attempted suicide in April 1814. The emperor “had frequently examined his pistols, removing bullets from his nécessaire” during this time, Osenat reports Caulaincourt as saying. Last November, Osenat sold one of Napoleon’s famous black hats for a record €1.932 million ($2.1 million).

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☆ Moped-Riding Thieves Frighten Diners at Upscale N.Y.C. Restaurants
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Maia Coleman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Just 20 feet away, a man wearing a mask brandished a gun in the crowded dining room and with a henchman grabbed two phones and a watch from three men at a table near the front door. Diners dashed into the kitchen. Chairs toppled. The perpetrators quick-walked out and fled on a moped, leaving behind a half-empty dining room where a handful of unfired bullets had fallen to the floor. The stickup took less than 40 seconds.

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☆ First African-Born Member of German Parliament Won’t Seek Re-election
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Sarah Maslin Nir | More About Sarah Maslin Nir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Germany’s first African-born member of Parliament said this week that he would not seek office again in next year’s general elections. Although he played down racism as a factor, he made the announcement a short time after his staff released the contents of a slew of hate mail and death threats that his office had received. But he has been outspoken about the abuse he has experienced, which has markedly increased in volume and tenor in recent years. Bullets were fired through the window of his district office in 2020, and the office was a target of arson last year. “I can’t wipe all this away,” Mr. Diaby was reported as saying in an interview, according to the Funke Media Group, a major German newspaper and magazine publisher.

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☆ Scaled-Back but Determined Protests in Kenya Call for President to Resign
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Abdi Latif Dahir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Protesters returned to the streets of Kenya on Thursday, some of them demanding the resignation of President William Ruto, despite his announcement a day earlier that he was abandoning a tax bill that drew large-scale demonstrations in which nearly two dozen people were killed. On Thursday, a heavy police and military presence was visible across the capital, with officers in cars and trucks and on horseback guarding the roads leading to Parliament, the president’s official residence and several downtown streets. Much of the central business district remained closed as police officers chased and tear-gassed smaller crowds waving white roses. Some activists and opposition political leaders had urged demonstrators not to march toward the president’s official residence in Nairobi on Thursday for fear of more bloodshed. But others said the killings, shootings and abductions of those opposing the tax increases in recent days — which activists said were some of the bloodiest days in Kenya’s recent history — would not deter them from pushing Mr. Ruto to resign.

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☆ 3 job search strategies for when the market feels impossible, from a career coach: 'Strong relationships are more important than ever'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Phoebe Gavin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Think quality over quantityGiven the realities of the current job market, mentally prepare for a longer job hunt and be proactive about managing your energy. Job seeking is draining, and searches are inevitably going to take longer right now. Pick the right shortcutsCreating first-rate materials is time- and energy-intensive, even if the potential prize is a job you're over the moon for. Let them know you're on the hunt and tell them what you're looking for and why you're a good fit. Let them know you're on the hunt and tell them what you're looking for and why you're a good fit.

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