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Police body camera videos show frustration among local law enforcement at how Thomas Matthew Crooks managed to slip from view, scale a roof and shoot.
Multiple investigations have been launched as officials probe a complicated law enforcement failure that allowed a man with an AR-style rifle to get close enough to shoot and injure Trump at the rally
Donald Trump said he was safe after what the FBI said appeared to be an assassination attempt at the former US president’s West Palm Beach golf club
US Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe Jr also said Ryan Routh did not fire his weapon.
Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, survived an apparent assassination attempt while golfing in West Palm Beach, Florida. A gunman, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, was apprehended after Secret Service agents engaged and fired at him. Trump confirmed his safety, while officials expressed relief and highlighted security measures.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump had a "cordial" call on Monday after an assassination attempt on Trump on Sunday.
President Joe Biden and some Republicans are pressing for more resources for the agency still facing several investigations and whose director resigned after the first attempt on Trump’s life.
The US Secret Service has detailed a litany of failures uncovered by its review of the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump at a rally in July.
The U.S. Secret Service has a released a report admitting "failures" in protecting Donald Trump following the July 13th attempted assassination in Butler, PA.
Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service’s performance ahead of a July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe held a briefing Friday to detail an internal investigation into security lapses leading to the July 13 assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
Suspect Ryan Routh was charged last week with two federal firearms charges after allegedly targeting former President Donald Trump.
The interim report from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found multiple failures on almost every level.
The Senate unanimously the legislation on Tuesday after it sailed through the House without any opposition. The measure now heads to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature.
At a hearing this week, witnesses described behavior by Jonathan Braun that could result in his being locked up again.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon limited the testing to just its operability.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned a Nevada Republican politician who was awaiting sentencing on federal charges that she used money meant for a statue honoring a
President Donald Trump has been critical of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, who has said the president has no legal right to fire him.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he is pardoning a former Virginia sheriff who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a jury convicted him on federal bribery charges for deputizing several businessmen in exchange for cash payments.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he is pardoning a former Virginia sheriff who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a jury convicted him on federal bribery charges
Trump claimed former Virginia sheriff Scott Jenkins was a victim of a “weaponized” Justice Department under the Biden administration.
President Trump pardoned the former Virginia sheriff on Monday who was convicted on charges of conspiracy, fraud and bribery last year.
Reality TV star Todd Chrisley, known for "Chrisley Knows Best," was released from federal prison after being pardoned by President Donald Trump. Todd's wife, Julie Chrisley, was also pardoned. The Chrisleys were convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion in 2019. Their daughter Savannah, a vocal Trump supporter, criticized the case as politically motivated.
President Trump grants pardons to political allies and public figures amidst corruption-related convictions. Pardons have become a tool for political maneuvering, overriding the judiciary's work. This pattern of clemency continues with the recent pardons of former GOP politicians and reality TV stars, raising questions about justice and integrity in governance.
President Trump on Friday said he’d consider pardoning embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s currently on trial in the same Manhattan courtroom where Trump was found liable for sex abuse in 2023.
Pardons signed for Tanner Mansell and John Moore Jr, who freed 19 sharks and giant grouper from fisherman’s longline
MIAMI (AP) — Two South Florida shark divers convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks and a giant grouper from a fisherman's longline several miles from shore have been pardoned
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The Secret Service suspended 6 agents connected to the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump last July. The news comes just days ahead of the first anniversary of the July 13 attack at Trump's Butler, Pennsylvania rally -- and months…
The agency said the six unnamed individuals face punishments ranging from '10- to 42-day suspensions without pay'.
The assassination attempt against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign stop on July 13, 2024, was a perfect storm of failings coming together and became a turning point for the agency tasked with protecting the U.S. presid…
Lisa Cook is challenging the president's attempt to remove her from office based on what she says is "an unsubstantiated allegation" of mortgage fraud prior to her Senate confirmation as governor.
The overstretched Secret Service is required to provide 6 months of protection to former vice-presidents.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has canceled Secret Service protection for former vice president and 2024 Democratic rival Kamala Harris, a...
Move comes as spectre of political violence has grown in the US, with Trump facing two campaign assassination attempts.
Marine One was diverted while ferrying Donald Trump from Chequers to Stansted Airport.
The president and first lady were preparing to depart London after a historic state visit when their helicopter was forced to land
Donald Trump surprised members of his administration with public demand that Pam Bondi quickly prosecute Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and James Comey.
In what may be a first in American legal history, a sitting president just had his lawsuit struck down by a federal judge before the defendants even had a chance to respond. Judge Steven Merryday didn’t wait for a motion to dismiss. He didn’t wait for the def…
Sean "Diddy" Combs is already going straight to the top for a get out of jail free card ... because President Trump says Diddy has asked for a presidential pardon. Trump was talking to reporters Monday at the White House when he revealed he'd…
The most anticipated card in UFC history -- the massive event at the White House -- officially has a date ... June 14, 2026, President Trump's 80th birthday! How's that for a bday bash?! POTUS made the announcement on Sunday while speaking at Naval…
EXCLUSIVE: A potential presidential pardon is still in the mix for Sean Combs, as the Grammy winner and former Donald Trump pal stares down a four-year prison stint. At the same time, after Combs complained at length at his sentencing hearing last week about …
The disgraced New York Republican was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a litany of federal charges, including wire fraud and identity theft.
Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison earlier this year after being convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
President Trump is springing ex-Congressman George Santos from prison, saying the convicted fraudster has no business doing 7 years behind bars. POTUS admitted Santos had been a "rogue" ... but added, at least Santos "had the Courage, Conviction,…
George Santos, serving a prison term on charges of fraud and identity theft, had been held in solitary confinement.
Disgraced ex-congressman served 3 months of 7-year sentence, Trump calls it "fairness", critics say political favor
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the more than seven-year prison sentence of former representative George Santos for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release.
Part of the White House East Wing was demolished on Monday as President Trump sets out to build a massive ballroom.
President Donald Trump has suggested he's entitled to compensation from the federal government over investigations he faced that he claims were politically...
Trump first said the project wouldn't interfere with the existing White House, but on Thursday satellite images appeared to show the entire East Wing reduced to rubble.
Mr Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison in 2024 after pleading guilty to violating money laundering laws.
Zhao is a convicted criminal who founded the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange.
Panelists discuss what authority the president may have to dismantle the historic White House.
The appeal follows a Supreme Court ruling last year offering broad legal protections for US presidents.
His lawyers invoked presidential immunity and claimed the prosecution was politically motivated.
Sean "Diddy" Combs thinks he's not long for FCI Fort Dix ... because he's telling fellow inmates he will get a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump early next year. Sources at the federal prison in New Jersey tell TMZ ... Diddy is…
President Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and a onetime aide of public corruption charges after the White House said the Biden...
The vice president's dream of an unfettered executive has largely come true.
This week, President Trump pardoned allies accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It is part of an uptick in "insider pardons" issued in his second term, one legal expert says.
The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.
Ed Martin, the United States Pardon Attorney, announced that President Trump would be pardoning key figures involved in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on such a scale.
The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump's signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a "technical error."The replacements came after online commenters seized on strik…
The president's rampant misuse of pardon power is yet another assault on democracy
The Supreme Court should admit its error and restore the principle that no one, not even the president of the United States, is exempt from the rule of law.
Former New York Mets great Darryl Strawberry praised Jesus and thanked President Donald Trump for pardoning his past tax evasion and drug charges as he...
By Matt Tracy Nov 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has commuted the seven-year sentence of former GPB Capital Holdings CEO David Gentile, with a White...
"An immediate end to the trial would greatly help lower the flames and promote broad reconciliation," Israel's PM says.
President Donald Trump defended his pardon of a former Honduran president who once bragged that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” Trump, 79, ...
President Donald Trump pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case on Wednesday, citing what he called...
Cuellar and his wife were indicted on charges including bribery in 2024.
Trump says he will issue a "full and unconditional" pardon of the Texas representative and his wife.
In his latest pardon, the US president claimed Biden targeted Congressman Cuellar for his criticism of US border policy.
The president said overwhelming evidence would appear in coming weeks.
Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris shared a detail about her conversation with President Donald Trump following the attempt on his life. What Happened...
Journalists travelling with the president said the lights went out briefly in the press cabin.
President Donald Trump is seeking to stop his own Justice Department from releasing a whole new set of files he’d rather keep away from public view. Trump...
The Theranos founder isn't scheduled to be released from prison until 2031.
Prosecutors claimed that Routh, 59, remained 'totally unrepentant' for the incident in Florida.
Judge says Ryan Routh engaged in 'premeditated' plot to kill Trump several months before the US presidential election.
The president is seeking billions in taxpayer dollars from his own IRS. Whether he can do this is perhaps less important than whether he should.
Ex-NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon are all granted clemency.
Critics have warned that the US president has taken an increasingly transactional approach to granting clemency.
President Donald Trump accused the Supreme Court of being "disloyal" after the justices ruled against his authority to unilaterally implement tariffs.
An armed man was killed by Secret Service agents after entering a restricted area of Mar-a-Lago, officials say
The motion is part of a lawsuit challenging President Trump and the Center's board, who now refer to the complex as "The Trump Kennedy Center."
The 25th Amendment is having a moment. According to a tally by NBC News, over 70 Democratic lawmakers called for President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to invoke an obscure constitutional provision that would allow them to temporarily prevent Trump from acting as p…
1：それでも動く名無し ：2026/04/11(土) 09:02:13.86ID:zF2irgh4r のんでもできるよ！やったねとらんぷちゃん！ Breaking: Trump promises mass pardons to all of his staff before he leaves office.He says everyone who came within “200 feet of the Oval Office”...
Oh, how cute, and this totally doesn’t reek of guilt. Donald J. Trump is out here playing Santa Claus with the presidential pardon power, promising a preemptive blanket pardon for anyone who wanders within 200 feet of the Oval Office (radius subject to expans…
If you’re not corrupt, you generally don’t have to say certain things. Let’s take a look at ex-NYC mayor Eric Adams who, while dealing with plenty of corruption investigations and allegations, protested his innocence by saying stuff no one who wasn’t hip deep…
The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed.
The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.
The shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner is the third time in three years Trump has been at the centre of a major security incident.
"This is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House," Trump said
The US president is unharmed after being rushed out of the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington.
A man armed is in custody after trying to rush the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which Trump was attending.
“Agents are trained to instinctively place themselves between the protectee and any potential danger,” Herrera said.
“It’s always shocking when something like this happens,” Donald Trump said tonight about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. “It was either a tray or a bullet,” he said he heard before agents hustled him to safety. “When you are impactful t…
The catering staff at the Washington Hilton was just about to the main course — prime Chateaubriand and Maine lobster — when four loud, quick shots could be heard. With Donald Trump making his first appearance as president, the White House Correspondents’ Din…
The Secret Service and other authorities swarmed the banquet hall as guests ducked under tables by the hundreds.
This weekend’s failed attack highlighted a risk that often goes unspoken.
Questions have been raised about security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
After gunshots echoed at this year’s Correspondents' dinner, security measures for President Trump came under scrutiny.
Cole Tomas Allen was officially charged with trying to assassinate US President Donald Trump.
The Justice Department is reportedly exploring a novel and innovative new legal doctrine in which the president sues the government he controls, then orders that same government to pay him with your money. The New York Times reported that the DOJ is conside…
In honor of the Trump administration’s plan to issue 250 presidential pardons in celebration of America’s big 250th, Jezebel would like to throw 250 pardon suggestions into the mix.
The Trump administration’s newly created nearly $1.8 billion fund for allies of President Donald Trump who say they were wrongly targeted by the government...
President Trump's attempt to create a compensation fund for those who claim they were targeted by the Biden administration is now at the center of two federal lawsuits.
After another shooting nearby, Trump again used it in his narrative of permanent threat and militarized spectacle
An overnight Department of Justice filing cast Saturday's shooting on Pennsylvania Avenue as another attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.
Thirty-five (thirty-five!) former federal judges are asking a current federal judge to reopen the case where Donald Trump sued his own IRS, and then “settled” the case on terms extremely favorable to himself, his family, and his MAGA loyalists. Law schools ar…
Republican Stephen Buyer was convicted and sentenced to 22 months in prison, though he has maintained his innocence.
Buyer was found guilty in March of 2023 on four counts of securities fraud.
We would say stranger things have happened, but Trump pardoning a crypto fraudster isn't very strange in 2026.
The president has repeatedly argued that courts have no business deciding whether his actions are legal.
The sweet deal that resolved the president's fatally flawed lawsuit against the IRS was business as usual at the DOJ, his attorneys told a federal judge.
Biden, a former Democratic president, argued that releasing the recordings would violate his right to privacy.
Photo Credit: Public DomainAutopen pardons can’t possibly be constitutional. Why not test the theory on a few high-profile malefactors?
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn a decision that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein says the US was founded on the principle that governments exist to protect rights.
Trump previously claimed earlier this year he wasn’t considering pardoning Combs.
The change in plans was not prompted by a specific threat, but influenced in part by differences in the plane security capabilities, two U.S. officials told ABC News.
Trump’s name was removed from the centre's facade and signage last month, after a judge ordered its removal.