Ryan Wesley Routh wrote letter offering $150,000 to copycat killer Ryan W. Routh (Martin County Sheriff’s Office/Reuters) The man charged with the most recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump started plotting the attempt months before he pointed a rifle at the former president, according to federal prosecutors’ Monday filing, which includes a chilling letter written
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio—”If we only had 5,000, I wouldn’t be talking to you right now,” says Reverend Barron—real name Kenneth Selig—in what’s become a common refrain in the embattled city of Springfield, Ohio. Barron, a street preacher, food truck owner, and former warehouse manager, has emerged as a colorful champion for the small city as it
Democrat Will Rollins has made his prosecutorial record central to his rematch against Rep. Ken Calvert (R., Calif.). The Palm Springs lawyer repeatedly boasted that he went after ISIS, the Sinaloa cartel, and MS-13 when he worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California. “Rollins, a counterterrorism prosecutor, took on ISIS
Kamala Harris has said Walz will help her ‘unify this country’ Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) Vice President Kamala Harris says her running mate, Tim Walz, is going to help her “unify this country.” As governor of Minnesota, however, Walz explicitly divided people, holding training sessions for teachers and military veterans that were
Hezbollah unleashed a wave of missile attacks against Israel over the weekend, promising a “battle without limits” as fighting along the Jewish state’s northern border intensified. “We have entered a new phase, the title of which is the open-ended battle of reckoning,” Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Naim Qassem, said on Sunday after the terror group launched
Abraham Lincoln had a ready rejoinder for wartime critics who accused him of shredding the Constitution. To the contrary, said Lincoln; confronted with domestic rebellion he was willing to temporarily suspend part of the nation’s organic law in order to preserve the entirety, and the nation with it. “Often a limb must be amputated to
REVIEW: ‘Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires’ by David Chaffetz We tend to forget now, but the Silk Road, as a kind of artery between great civilizations, dominated the world’s destiny for much of humankind’s collective experience. And, of course, the world has largely remembered the region from the perspective