MILWAUKEE — In his first presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously declared at the Republican National Convention “I alone can fix it,” asking his fellow members to put their trust not in God or the political elite, but in him. Yet eight years later, after surviving an assassination attempt, trouncing a wide field of GOP primary […]
Pressure is rapidly escalating among Republican lawmakers for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to step down as the agency continues its investigation into the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. Unclassified virtual briefings to the House and Senate from Cheatle and other top law enforcement officials have failed to quell mounting questions and fury […]
A stunning security failure that allowed a would-be assassin to take shots at former President Donald Trump during a recent rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has spurred rounds of finger-pointing over who is to blame. Six days after the shooting, the Secret Service’s communication to the public has been limited, and anonymous leaks to the press […]
The 2024 presidential election cycle will always include a tragic asterisk, in the form of a civilian casualty. Former Pennsylvania firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed in a July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, now the GOP nominee. The episode, in which a bullet fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks grazed Trump’s ear, […]
Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) used to think the only people who paid close attention to the Supreme Court were ideological activists or political professionals inside the Washington Beltway. The more the congressman hears from voters in his upper Manhattan-based district, the more Espaillat realizes he was wrong. “I hear about the Supreme Court from constituents […]
Houthi rebels launched a drone attack in Tel Aviv on Friday in what is believed to be a retaliatory act for Israel’s war with Hamas. The attack killed a 50-year-old man and injured at least ten others, according to reports. The strike happened in Tel Aviv’s central district, reportedly where multiple diplomatic missions are located, […]
After a busy political season, Budapest’s fashionable downtown is still festooned with posters and banners from the recent mayoral elections. Most of the signs refer to local issues, from building playgrounds to improving public safety, that wouldn’t be out of place in any major European city. Lurking in the background is the reality that Budapest, […]
There’s a line about class that I think about a lot: “There are those who are where they are because they are doing what they are doing, and there are those who are doing what they are doing because they are where they are.” That difference between living wherever your employment takes you and having […]
In the lead-up to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, GOP nominee Donald Trump said he wanted to keep the vice presidential nomination under wraps as long as possible. The attempt on the former president’s life two days before the convention, at a western Pennsylvania rally, likely forced his hand. On the day Trump […]
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine extended Ohio’s first-in-the-nation ballot deadline to allow Democrats until September to nominate their presidential candidate this year, solving a filing date technicality that had seemed to threaten President Joe Biden’s Buckeye State ballot status. Still, Democratic power brokers have proceeded as though the Democratic National Committee has only until Aug. 7 […]
