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Reporter’s Notebook: Amid the Trump assassination attempt, Iranian plot against Trump

Washington Examiner Defense Reporter Mike Brest joins Political and Investigative Reporter Sarah Bedford to discuss the Iranian plot against former President Donald Trump. What was the Iranian government’s response to these accusations? What is the status of the humanitarian aid to Gaza?

JD Vance’s VP nomination could give bump to Democrats’ narrow Senate majority

Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) nomination as former President Donald Trump’s running mate means Senate Democrats will likely have more, albeit small, breathing room with their razor-thin majority during tight votes. There’s a long history of senators from both sides of the aisle with presidential and vice presidential aspirations being chronically absent from their chamber. Those […]

Four times when politics and the Olympics have clashed

The Summer and Winter Olympic Games, the world’s biggest sporting events since 1896, have served largely as a global escape from politics, but there have been times when politics has found its way into the event. As the greatest athletes in the world gather in Paris, France, for the 2024 Summer Olympics, here is a […]

House Democrat calls on Secret Service director to resign

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign, citing “unacceptable operational failures” that have come to light since the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Boyle, who represents a suburban Philadelphia district, became the first congressional Democrat to join numerous voices in the Republican Party who have asked […]

Trump mocks ‘Laughing Kamala’ Harris amid rumors she’ll replace Biden atop ticket

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump poked fun at Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally Saturday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his first since he was nearly assassinated last week. As Trump began to talk about taking back the White House in November, he went on a tangent about Harris and the way she laughs. “I […]

Michigan Republicans shrug off Vance Ohio ribbing in must-win state

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance’s story of overcoming personal hardship was one of the reasons former President Donald Trump tapped him to become his running mate, with the hope people in the midwestern battleground states, including Michigan, would relate to him. Although the 39-year-old Ohio senator’s nomination acceptance speech last […]

Trump disavows Project 2025 as proposals risk becoming political drag

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ripped the Heritage Foundation‘s policy proposals for his hypothetical second administration as President Joe Biden‘s campaign uses the conservative think tank’s recommendations against him. “Some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project ’25,” Trump told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday. […]

Trump revels in campaign trail return after shooting

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Despite promising during his nomination acceptance speech during last week’s Republican National Convention not to keep revisiting his assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump relived the moment during his first post-shooting rally in Grand Rapids. “It was exactly a week ago today almost to the hour, almost to the minute,” Trump told […]

House Homeland Security Committee chairman to visit Trump shooting site Monday

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) is scheduled to visit the site of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Monday, according to a press release from the committee. Green and 10 other committee members will tour the grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump held a campaign rally that was quickly […]

DHS leadership defends female law enforcement agents after attacks on Secret Service

The Department of Homeland Security released a statement Saturday defending the presence of women in law enforcement, which has been increasingly scrutinized in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, and nine other senior DHS officials called “public statements questioning the […]
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