The motives of the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump are still unclear two days after the shocking incident, but details about the gunman’s past are slowly starting to trickle in. Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa., was shot and killed by the Secret Service after he opened fire on
A shooting at Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, Pa., is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, law enforcement officials say. Trump called Sunday for unity and resilience as shocked leaders across the political divide reacted to the shooting.The Secret Service said it killed the suspected shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who attacked from an elevated position outside
Multiple witnesses say they saw Donald Trump’s suspected shooter climbing on the roof of a Pennsylvania building moments before shots were fired at the former president during a campaign rally Saturday. Several rally attendees, speaking to media outlets in the aftermath of what being called a failed assassination attempt on Trump, said they even tried
Former U.S. President Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday evening, but remains “fine,” according to his campaign. Shots rang out at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday evening in a dramatic scene that had the former president huddled underneath the podium while his protective detail surrounded him. Trump grabbed his ear
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A terrifying close call happened in the skies above Syracuse, New York when two airplanes nearly collided in mid-air on Monday afternoon. The two planes involved were carrying a combined total of 159 people. Eighty people were on Delta Air Lines flight 5421, operated by Endeavor Air
A far-right policy agenda known as Project 2025 has increasingly become a talking point on the U.S. campaign trail as the contest between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump heats up. Biden and the Democratic Party have been seeking to tie Trump to the controversial initiative and convince voters that its extreme conservative
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A groom is fighting for his life in hospital, after he was shot in the head during his backyard wedding celebration over the weekend. Friday night was supposed to be one of the happiest of Dulce and Manuel Gonzalez’s lives, but it ended in horror when two
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and all but ending prospects the former president could be tried before the November
Above all, Joe Biden’s allies wanted him to demonstrate strength and energy on the debate stage to help put to rest questions about the 81-year-old Democrat’s physical and mental acuity. But on the biggest stage in U.S. politics on Thursday night, Biden did not meet their modest expectations.And by the end of the 90-minute showdown
U.S. President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump clashed in the first presidential debate in the 2024 presidential election campaign. They argued over the fate of American democracy, abortion and the other candidate’s family and legal trials.Trump, often saying things that weren’t true, accused Biden of opening the border and allowing into the country migrants