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Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who shot Donald Trump, was once rejected from his high school rifle club and considered a danger. The registered Republican and 2022 high school graduate opened fire at the former president with an AR-style rifle from a roof 130 yards from the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday at 6.15pm. Now, disturbing anecdotes have emerged from those who knew Crooks dating back to his days at Bethel Park High School. Crooks tried out for the school's rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, said Frederick Mach, a...

Driving Vice President-elect Kamala Harris by an undetected bomb. Refusing extra resources for a presidential candidate. Admitting an agent on a White House detail assaulted her supervisor. Long before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday night such focused a harsh light on the Secret Service, the presidential security agency was already facing difficult questions about its capability, training, recruitment and emphasis on diversity.Secret Service agents reportedly were even circulating a petition raising questions about their management a few weeks ago.Those questions are now certain to receive intense new attention after video footage showed a gunman on...

Video shows Trump shooter crawling into position while folks point him out to law enforcement at Trump rally

Shuttlecocks are getting costlier because declining pork prices drive up consumer demand. This then makes fewer farmers keen to raise ducks and geese which in turn makes their feathers - used in shuttlecocks - more expensive.Mr Chow Zhengyang is not having a smashing good time on the badminton court. “I can’t afford to play anymore,” said the frustrated 28-year-old Malaysian who has been studying in Beijing for 15 years, and plays badminton at least twice a week for leisure and to socialise. Shuttlecocks are the reason. Prices have shot up, forcing him to spend an additional 180 yuan (US$24) a...

A local law enforcement officer reportedly encountered the shooter moments before he opened fire on former President Donald Trump during a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. Two law enforcement officials told the Associated Press (AP) that a local police officer had encountered the shooter, who the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified as being Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The AP noted that the law enforcement officials had agreed to speak to the outlet “on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.” A local law enforcement officer reportedly climbed up to the roof of a nearby building...

DARK DAY IN AMERICA! I broke down in tears over Trump during a live video. Yes I cried and I couldn’t hold back. You can Make fun of me but this is sad President Trump being shot brought me to tears. I love Trump. He is a good man, I sat at his dinner table, had personal conversations with him and I know for fact he has good heart. Trump is not evil, racist, prejudice, criminal, not a rapist and none of the horrible things they call him on TV. He truly cares about America and has put his life...

Former President Donald Trump has completely rewritten his convention speech in light of the assassination attempt against him on Saturday and will call on Thursday for a new effort at national unity. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner a day after being hit by a sniper’s bullet, Trump said he wanted to take advantage of a historic moment and draw the country together. “The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger,” he said, “Had this not happened, this would’ve been one of the most incredible speeches” aimed mostly at the policies...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope hopes for ‘faithful’ and ‘creative’ interpretation of Lord’s intentions for women and ministryJuly 12, 2024» Continue to this story on L'Osservatore Romano (Italian) CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis has written the preface to Donne e ministeri nella Chiesa sinodale [Women and Ministries in the Synodal Church], an anthology written by Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston, and the three women who addressed the Pope’s advisory Council of Cardinals on the topic in February. “Christian thought, in its theological, juridical, magisterial and cultural dimension, in its legitimate effort to transcend the contingency of the...

A stone wall built by the Roman army as a defense against slave revolt leader and gladiator Spartacus and his men has been identified by archaeologists in an Italian forest. Local environmentalists who found the wall alerted archaeologists, who have now been able to provide greater insight using advanced radar and laser scanning methods, as well as soil sample analysis. The ditch and mound (or fossa and agger, respectively) was a common Roman defense system. This stone wall and earthwork, for instance, stretches nearly two miles through the Dossone della Melia forest in Italy’s Calabria region. A deep ditch once...

Forbes has deleted an article musing about whether or not former President Donald Trump will use surviving an assassination attempt to help him win over more black voters. The article was titled “Will Surviving Gunfire Be Donald Trump’s Next Appeal To Black Voters?” and was written by contributor Shaun Harper, a tenured professor described by Forbes as a “DEI expert.” The link to the article now reads, “We can’t find the page that you are looking for,” across the top. Unfortunately for Forbes, the internet is forever, and the article was archived many times before it was removed. The article...

Italian sports journalist, Marco Violi has been falsely identified as Trump´s assassin; the journalist is determined to take legal action. The attack on the US presidential candidate, Donald Trump on July 13 has sparked global discussions. The former president was attending to a crowd in the state of Pennsylvania, when the 20-year-old, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots, one of which left Trump with an ear injury. The Secret Service has stated that the assassin “was later neutralised by agents of the Secret Service and now he is dead.” Meanwhile, in Italy, the editor of the Italian fan website for...

With Donald Trump having narrowly escaped death at the hands of a would-be assassin on Saturday, the state of the presidential race has never been more chaotic. In the weeks prior, all eyes were on Joe Biden and his severe mental and physical decline, with many high-level Democrats desperately trying to organize a way to force him out of the race. Yet, after the attempt on Trump's life, the rush to replace Biden as the Democratic Party nominee has essentially ended, and not for the reason one might think. According to NBC News, the replacement campaign has lost steam not...

President Biden urged the nation to unite in a rare Oval Office address on Sunday night – a day after a gunman tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally. “My fellow Americans, I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember that while we may disagree, we are not enemies, we are neighbors, we are friends, coworkers, citizens, and most importantly we are fellow Americans,” the 81-year-old president said. “Yesterday’s shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania calls on all of us...

Former President Donald Trump has arrived in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention a day after he was targeted in an attempted assassination at a campaign event. Trump's airplane touched down Sunday, the day before the four-day event kicks off with thousands of Republicans coming together to formally elect him as their 2024 presidential nominee. The shocking scenes of violence at his Saturday campaign rally that injured his right ear, killed a spectator and injured another set a dark backdrop for the convention, which is typically four days of party pageantry, political speeches, policy platforms and the presidential nominee's keynote...

Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Sunday, extended his heartfelt “sympathies” to United States former President, Donald Trump who was shot at on Saturday. Recall that a now “neutralised” individual fired shots during a campaign rally which also grazed Trump’s ear on Saturday The incident reportedly left one person dead and another seriously injured. Reacting via X, Tinubu who noted that act goes beyond the “pale of democratic norms,” added that such should have “no place in democracy.” The post read: “The attack on former President Donald Trump is distasteful. “I extend my sympathies to the former President and wish...

House Democrat Homeland Security Committee site issued a press release touting the bill.. The Secret Service, headed by a Biden associate, failed to approve full protection for former President Trump before the assassination attempt. And Democrats wanted to go even further. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, introduced the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act or the DISGRACED Former Protectees Act (H.R. 8081) which called for removing Trump’s secret service protection. The proposed bill was co-sponsored by 7 other House Dems. The House Democrat...

The COVID-19 pandemic erased nearly two decades of life expectancy gains in America. Meanwhile, U.S. health spending per capita is at the highest level in the world.In the graphic below, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualizes life expectancy and per capita healthcare costs across several wealthy nations.Figures were compiled by Peterson-KFF, and are as of 2022.America Spends a Lot on Healthcare, For Little GainAs Peterson–KFF bluntly notes, “the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy amongst large, wealthy countries” while their per capita healthcare cost has moved past $12,500 as of 2022In fact the U.S. is an outlier for both healthcare costs...

USAID boss Samantha Power has some news for Americans. Another $100 million for terrorists. Today, Administrator Samantha Power announced that the United States, through USAID, will provide an additional $100 million in critical humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in dire need throughout Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Critical and dire need. So critical and so dire that we’ve been lied to and told that all the Islamic terrorists and their supporters have been starving to death for 8 months. And yet somehow it never actually seems to happen, Meanwhile, every Hamas terrorist leader is morbidly obese. Biden announced $100 million in...

The scandal-plagued Biden campaign has pulled all its ads against former President Donald Trump after he was nearly killed by a shooter on Saturday. Joe Biden is “pausing all outbound communications and working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible,” a campaign official told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday morning. The ads would have likely labeled Trump as an existential threat ahead of the 2024 election. Biden’s anti-Trump claims have rightfully led critics to question whether this heavily partisan rhetoric has incited violence against Trump.This rhetoric often conflates Trump with dictators, including Adolf Hitler, and suggests...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Charles George Info from here. Charles George (August 23, 1932 November 30, 1952) was a U.S. Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat on November 30, 1952, during the Korean War. He was fatally wounded when he threw himself on a grenade to protect other soldiers in his company and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. George was...