Most of the security personnel working Donald Trump’s event last Saturday, when the former president was nearly assassinated, were not Secret Service agents but, instead, were “unprepared and inexperienced” department agents who were “unfamiliar with standard protocols,” whistleblowers told Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.). “Whistleblower allegations suggest the majority of DHS officials were not in
Iran’s new president, widely touted in Western media outlets as a “moderate” and “reformist,” has spent the weeks following his election pledging to arm regional terror groups and assembling an international “Axis of Resistance” to threaten America. In the two weeks since he rose to the presidency, Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged to continue supporting Hamas,
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Instagram Friday morning slammed her Democratic colleagues who have privately called for President Joe Biden to step down as the party’s nominee. “That’s bullshit. If you have an opinion, say it with your chest and say it in public. That’s a bunch of horseshit,” Ocasio-Cortez said, referring to Democratic
A Russian court found U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage on Friday and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony in what his employer, the Wall Street Journal, called “a disgraceful sham conviction.” Gershkovich, a 32-year-old American who denied any wrongdoing, went on trial in the city of Yekaterinburg last
A software update wreaked havoc on computer systems globally on Friday, grounding flights, forcing some broadcasters off air and hitting services from banking to health care. An update to a product offered by global cyberscurity firm CrowdStrike appeared to be the trigger, affecting customers using Microsoft’s Windows Operating System. Microsoft said later on Friday the issue had been
There’s never been a political speech like Donald Trump’s address to the 2024 Republican National Convention. The former president’s narration of the attempt on his life was gripping television. When he kissed the fireman’s helmet of Corey Comperatore, the husband and father who was killed during the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, last weekend, he created
MILWAUKEE—House speaker Mike Johnson vowed on Thursday to arrest any anti-Israel congressional officials who disrupt or get “out of hand” during Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming floor speech to a joint session of Congress. Johnson’s comments come as hundreds of left-leaning congressional staffers, and some Democratic lawmakers, vowed to protest or boycott Netanyahu’s address