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Secret Service director touts changes following Trump assassination attempt

The acting director of the Secret Service said Thursday that the agency is reorganizing and reimagining its culture and how it operates following an assassination attempt against Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the attempt on Trump's life pushed Ronald Rowe on how the agency's staffers could have missed such blatant security vulnerabilities leading up to the July 13 shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. At one point, the hearing devolved into a shouting match between Rowe and a Republican congressman. Rowe promised accountability for what he called the agency's abject failure to secure the rally in Butler, where a gunman opened fire from a nearby building. Trump was wounded in the ear, one rallygoer was killed and two others were wounded. Another assassination attempt two months later contributed to the agency's troubles. That gunman waited for hours for Trump to appear at his golf course in Florida, but a Secret ...

Trump interviewing FBI chief candidates, Vance says in later deleted post

President-elect Donald Trump is interviewing candidates for the role of FBI director, incoming Vice-President JD Vance said on Tuesday in the clearest indication yet that the new administration is looking to replace current director Christopher Wray. In a social media post that was later deleted, Vance defended his absence from a Senate vote at which a judicial nominee of President Joe Biden was confirmed by saying that at the time of the vote, "I was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI Director." "I tend to think it's more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45," he added on X. Vance was referring to the Senate vote on Monday to confirm Embry J Kidd, a Biden nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, a vote that he and several other Republican senators missed. An FBI spokesperson declined to comment, and the Trum

Europe's banks brace for tougher competition under Trump's second term

But the pace of any deregulation will be determined by new regulators and key policymakers that Trump has yet to nominate, leaving the outlook highly uncertain

News updates: Had Cong given priority to rural India, we would have less poverty, says Nitin Gadkari

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US elections: Harris calibrates her policy pitch for battle against Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing the delicate task of calibrating her policy pitch to American voters, a standard task for any White House hopeful but one that comes with additional challenges this year. First, Harris is running for president while serving under President Joe Biden, meaning she's linked to anything that happened or will happen on his watch. She inherits accomplishments like limiting the cost of insulin but also the administration's struggle to prevent illegal border crossings. Second, Harris has baggage from her own failed campaign for president before she became Biden's running mate four years ago. During that Democratic primary, she backed an array of progressive proposals that Republicans have highlighted to paint her as dangerously liberal. Harris has already disavowed some of her earlier positions, such as a ban on fracking and support for single-payer healthcare. And she's pledging to keep some of Biden's promises, including no tax increases on anyone

Donald Trump to address Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville on July 27

Trump presented himself during a San Francisco fundraiser in June as a champion for cryptocurrencies and slammed Democrats' attempts to regulate the sector

Harvey Weinstein to appear in same courthouse where Trump is on trial

Harvey Weinstein is expected to appear before a judge Wednesday afternoon in the same New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial. Weinstein is awaiting a retrial on rape charges after his 2020 conviction was tossed out. Wednesday's court hearing will address various legal issues related to the upcoming trial, which is tentatively scheduled for some time after Labor Day. Weinstein's original trial was held in the same courtroom where Trump is on trial now, but the two men are unlikely to bump into each other. Weinstein is in custody and will be brought to and from the courtroom under guard. He will be appearing in a courtroom on a different floor than where Trump is currently on trial. Weinstein was convicted of rape in the third degree for an attack on Jessica Mann, an aspiring actor, and of sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a former TV and film production assistant. But last month New York's highest court threw out those convictions after determining

Special counsel finds evidence Biden willfully mishandled classified info

A special counsel report released Thursday found evidence that President Joe Biden willfully retained and shared highly classified information when he was a private citizen, including about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, but concluded that criminal charges were not warranted. The report from special counsel Robert Hur resolves a criminal investigation that had shadowed Biden's presidency for the last year. But its bitingly critical assessment of his handling of sensitive government records and unflattering characterizations of his memory will spark fresh questions about his competency and age that cut at voters' most deep-seated concerns about his candidacy for re-election. Beyond that, the harsh findings will almost certainly blunt his ability to forcefully condemn Donald Trump, Biden's likely opponent in November's presidential election, over a criminal indictment charging the former president with illegally hoarding classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate in ...

Donald Trump surrenders in Georgia on 2020 election probe charges

Trump's latest criminal booking is another milestone for the former president as he seeks to return to the White House in the 2024 elections

Musk's X fined $350,000 in secret Justice Dept Fight over Trump records

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected Twitter's objections to an order that prohibited the company from notifying anyone about the warrant

LinkedIn co-founder defends funding rape accuser suit against Trump

"I want to be clear that I've never taken any steps to hide the financial support that I have provided to this lawsuit after it started," he said

TMS Ep402: NCLAT relief to Google, T20 WPL, markets, Trump indictment

How will NCLAT relief to Google affect you? What next for the Women's Premier League? Which factors will guide markets in FY24? Why has Donald Trump been indicted? All answers here

Donald Trump expected to be arraigned in court on April 4: Reports

Trump reportedly faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday, which was filed under seal

Trump indicted: What is an indictment? Here's everything you need to know

The indictment is one of several legal issues Trump faces, including an investigation by the Atlanta DA and a federal special counsel probe

US says it has reviewed documents seized from Trump in Mar-a-Lago search

The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate this month and has identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information, according to a court filing on Monday. The filing from the department follows a judge's weekend order indicating that she was inclined to grant the Trump legal team's request for a special master to review the seized documents and to set aside any that may be covered by claims of legal privilege. A hearing is set for Thursday in federal court in Florida. The Justice Department said in its filing that it would disclose more information later this week.

Trump one of 'most incompetent' presidents in US history: Joe Biden

President-elect Joe Biden has said President Donald Trump was the "most incompetent" presidents in US history

Trump's education, transport secretaries resign over Capitol Hill violence

Two of the US Cabinet members -- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Transport Secretary Elaine Chao -- have resigned over the storming of the Capitol by President Donald Trump's supporters

US elections: Biden will be a better foreign policy president, survey says

Foreign governments will be more willing to cooperate with the United States if Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the 2020 election than if President Donald Trump is reelected, a survey of international relations scholars found. Results from a Teaching, Research, & International Policy (TRIP) survey of 708 international relations scholars at US universities found that international relations scholars are far more likely to support Biden than Trump for president and overwhelmingly agree that Biden will be better able to achieve his foreign policy agenda. Experts who identify themselves as Republicans and Independents are far more skeptical of Trump's approach to foreign policy than are their co-partisans in the US population at large, the survey found. Respondents to the survey overwhelmingly said that foreign governments will be more willing to cooperate with the United States if Biden (92 per cent) wins the election than if Trump (2 per cent) wins. By a significant ..

Donald Trump to sign 'Buy America' order on medicines, medical equipment

The order will include a "Buy America" provision governing federal purchases of medical supplies and equipment

How coronavirus pandemic could turn world politics on its head

Trust is the fuel that makes global institutions run. And it looks as though we've passed Peak Trust