The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a fresh warning on Thursday that it identified a new cinnamon product sold in the United States that has lead contamination. The ground cinnamon has the El Servidor brand name and is distributed by a company of the same name based in Elmhurst, New York. The product […]

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday rebuffed claims that glass or shrapnel struck his ear during an attempted assassination earlier this month at a Pennsylvania rally as his former White House doctor said a day later that the injury was caused by a gunshot wound. He was responding to a comment made by FBI Director […]

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on July 22 asked a New York appeals court to overturn the $454 million New York civil fraud judgment that was handed down earlier this year. In court papers filed with First Department of the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, the state’s mid-level court, his lawyers wrote that Manhattan […]

The chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign in a rare bipartisan joint statement on Monday, following hours of questioning the agency director. Following six hours of testimony in which Ms. Cheatle was asked numerous questions from both Republicans and Democrats about the assassination […]

The director of the U.S. Secret Service told a House panel on Monday that her agency failed during the assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump. “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed. As the Director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility […]

Former President Barack Obama praised President Joe Biden after he decided Sunday to suspend his reelection campaign but made no mention of Vice President Kamala Harris. In a lengthy statement, the 44th president described President Biden as “one of America’s most consequential presidents” and a “dear friend.” Going a step further, former President Obama said […]

Members of President Joe Biden’s family said they are proud of him after he announced on Sunday he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The president issued a statement on X announcing that it is “in the best interest of my party and the country” to suspend his reelection campaign, with just a […]

Former President Donald Trump that he was not told about a gunman on the roof of a building before he was shot during a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. “Nobody mentioned it,” the former president told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “Nobody said it was a problem.” Officials “could’ve said, ‘Let’s wait for 15, […]

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) revealed its top priority after President Joe Biden announced Sunday he won’t seek reelection for president. Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison said in a statement that Democrats will “undertake a transparent and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a candidate who can defeat” former […]

The director of the Secret Service has agreed to testify at a House hearing investigating Saturday’s assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump. A spokesman for the agency confirmed in a statement Friday that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will make the appearance before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, July 22, after its chairman […]

The Social Security Administration (SSA) closed its local offices on Friday in the midst of a worldwide tech outage impacting CrowdStrike and Microsoft services, it announced in a statement. The agency confirmed that due to the “worldwide IT outage, local Social Security offices are closed to the public” on July 19. From the statement, it’s […]

The manager of the Pennsylvania township that was host to a campaign rally in which a gunman fired shots at former President Donald Trump on July 13 said that local officers radioed a call on a tactical channel about a “suspicious male” near the warehouse where he ultimately perched. In a statement released Wednesday, Butler […]

A local police officer fired shots at the gunman who opened fire at former President Donald Trump on Saturday, a local law enforcement official disclosed Wednesday, also saying that the Secret Service was told by local police officials that they lacked the manpower to secure a building where the suspect was perched. Richard Goldinger, the […]

The director of the Secret Service said the agency is responsible for the security plan at the Pennsylvania rally where a shooter fired upon former President Donald Trump. “At that particular site, we divided up areas of responsibility, but the Secret Service is totally responsible for the design and implementation and the execution of the […]

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said that the sloped roof of the warehouse building from which a would-be assassin fired at former President Donald Trump was too dangerous for Secret Service agents to secure. Over the past weekend, questions have emerged about whether the Secret Service or local law enforcement did enough to secure […]

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Tuesday issued an order granting a request from former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants to hear oral arguments in their disqualification efforts of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after the 2024 general election. The state court will hear those arguments on Dec. 5, or about a full […]

Residents in a city in southern Illinois were ordered Tuesday to “evacuate now” because a dam for the city’s reservoir could fail at any moment. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Washington County Emergency Management Agency said: “Attention … the Failure of the Nashville dam is imminent. Please evacuate your home at this time. […]

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Tuesday that local police officers were inside a building as a shooter on the roof opened fire on former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday. “There was local police in that building—there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Monday that he, his family, or other top Israeli officials could become the victim of a Trump-inspired assassination attempt in the midst of the months-long war with Hamas. “There is an incitement to violence and murder of elected officials here. It can happen because there is incitement to violence […]

The 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump left behind few clues after he opened fire at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend. In the wake of the shooting that killed one spectator, investigators said they are searching for anything that might have driven Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to […]