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WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Joe Biden was bracing for a week-long political onslaught.More Democrats are expected to publicly call for him to withdraw from the 2024 race, a grueling campaign schedule will showcase his stamina and key television interviews are sure to put the spotlight back on questions about his age, health and fitness to serve a second term.That all seemed to change Saturday evening when gunshots rang out at a Donald Trump political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.For at least a moment, politics all but ground to a halt. As bipartisan calls poured in from across the country condemning the…

Doug Mills, the veteran New York Times photojournalist who took the now-iconic image of a bullet whizzing past Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, said the former president was “just so angry” as he pumped his fist. Doug Mills’ photo of a bullet grazed Donald Trump’s ear. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} “The next thing you know, it was like the blood just drained from his face… he was blue and you could see blood on the side of his face,” Mills told The New York Times. Explore Crickit, your go-to platform to watch matches anytime, anywhere,…

The 20-year-old nursing home employee from suburban Pittsburgh who plotted to assassinate former President Donald Trump was a Republican and packed explosives in a car heading to a campaign rally an hour away from his home.Law enforcement officials were trying to get more information about the suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to determine a motive for opening fire from a rooftop near the rally, killing one spectator before being shot dead by Secret Service agents.The FBI said Sunday that it has yet to identify the ideology, threatening texts or social media posts behind Crooks. Crooks graduated from…

An adventurer sailing solo across the Atlantic Ocean finds himself unexpectedly escorted on the high seas when he encounters a pod of pilot whales, leaving him both excited and fearful for his life. Tom Waddington, who was rowing from Newfoundland to England, said in an Instagram post that he found himself surrounded by long-finned pilot whales after a drizzle on the morning of July 7. “This is amazing,” Waddington said in the video. “There’s a pod of whales circling the boat, playing. It’s so much fun, but I’m so scared I’m going to get hit by the rudder. They’re so…

Donald Trump on Sunday vowed to formally become the presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention after surviving an assassination attempt further inflamed already bitter US political divisions. Police officers on the floor of the Fiserv Forum ahead of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Sunday, July 14, 2024. Former President Donald Trump confirmed he will attend next week’s Republican National Convention, hours after he was shot at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Photographer: Hannah Beyer/Bloomberg {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Democratic President Joe Biden said he had ordered an investigation into how a 20-year-old man carrying an…

Other Democratic candidates running this year are also rethinking their plans, focusing on the dangers that Trump poses if elected.Rather than attacking Trump in the coming days, the White House and Biden team will likely rely on the president’s history of condemning all political violence | Image: BloombergReuters President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is scrambling to come up with a new strategy, including suspending attacks on the former president for the time being, following an assassination attempt on Republican rival Donald Trump in western Pennsylvania. Within hours of Saturday’s shooting, the Biden campaign pulled its television ads and halted other…

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday that the man shot and killed at a rally for former President Donald Trump on Saturday was a 50-year-old volunteer firefighter who had taken cover to protect his family as gunfire rang out. The victim was identified as Corey Comperatore, according to a Facebook post from his family. “My brother, Corey Comperatore, was killed at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania. The hatred of one man took the life of the man we loved most,” the victim’s sister said in a post on Sunday. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Comperatore, a former Buffalo Township fire…

Suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed by Secret Service agents moments after allegedly firing shots at President Trump. Suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed by Secret Service agents moments after he allegedly fired a shot at Trump as he was speaking on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.The attack left Trump shot in the ear, one spectator dead and two seriously injured.The FBI said it was investigating to determine a motive for the attack.Donald Trump after the shootingCrooks’ father, Matthew, told CNN he would wait to speak publicly…

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-type rifle got close enough to former President Donald Trump to shoot and wound him at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, a major failure of one of the agency’s core missions. The gunman, who was shot and killed by Secret Service agents, fired several shots at the stage from “an elevated position outside the rally venue,” the agency said. An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos from Trump’s rallies, as well as satellite imagery of the venue, showed that the shooter was…

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