James Comey sparks Republican outrage with Trump social media post

The former FBI director said the message โ€œ8647โ€ wasnโ€™t intended to express violence against the 47th president.

Former aide to far-right German lawmaker charged with spying for China

AfD politician Maximilian Krah denies he had knowledge about the activities of erstwhile assistant and says he was โ€œdeceived.โ€

Ukraine war briefing: Suspect held in Moscow car bombing of general, Russia claims

Russian security service alleges Ukrainian agent Ignat Kuzin rigged car with homemade explosives; Trump meets Zelenskyy and expresses doubt that Putin wants a ceasefire. What we know on day 1,159Russiaโ€™s FSB secret service said on Saturday that it had …

โ€˜He Thinks He and Putin Are Friendsโ€™: John Bolton on How Trump Gets Manipulated

Trumpโ€™s former national security adviser lets loose on the leaked Signal group chat and Trumpโ€™s foreign policy.

Macron warns of โ€œnew eraโ€ as US backtracks from EU, Ukraine

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about Portugalโ€™s Prime Minister calling for a confidence vote amid uncertain parliamentary support, Romania’s Foreign Ministry rejecting Russian secret service interference, and so much more.

Trump celebrates disruption and defies backlash in Congress speech

โ€œThe people elected me to do the job, and Iโ€™m doing it.โ€

Brueghel painting stolen from Poland in 1974 found in local Dutch museum

Art detective and magazine help crack case of Flemish masterpiece thought to have been stolen by Polish agentsA โ€œspectacularโ€ stolen Flemish masterpiece has been rediscovered hanging on the walls of a provincial Dutch museum thanks to the efforts of an…

Slovak protests draw 100,000 denouncing pro-Putin tilt by Fico government

“There will be more and more of us. Those who want to live in our little Slovakia, but in a civilized Europe,” said Eva Kulovรก, 84, who helped topple Communism.

How a Gorilla devoured democracy in Slovakia

A sprawling government corruption scandal from 2006 ended multiple political careers. Failure to punish the culprits ended public faith in the system.

Trump suggests shooting down aircraft above New Jersey as concerns continue

President-elect Donald Trump posted to social media Friday saying the craft seen hovering around parts of New Jersey should be shot down, as lawmakers continue to demand answers.

Moldova warns of Russian โ€˜disruptiveโ€™ moves against overseas voting in Sundayโ€™s runoff

Moscow’s “disruptive activities” could include fake bomb threats, according to documents obtained by Welt am Sonntag.

Who won the day? Joe Rogan

Rogan won the day because he scored another wide-ranging interview with one of the candidates.

โ€˜All Trump, All the Timeโ€™ โ€” Inside the Trump campaignโ€™s media strategy

A top Trump adviser opens up about the effort to court a different set of voters.

Who could be in Kamala Harrisโ€™ Cabinet? Here are the leading contenders.

If Kamala Harris wins the election, she will likely approach the task of filling out her Cabinet and West Wing much like she did when she took over Joe Bidenโ€™s campaign operation this summer. While sheโ€™ll ensure her closest advisers and key Cabinet members are people she personally trusts, there will be some continuity with [โ€ฆ]

The real ‘Miss Moneypenny’: New book on history of women in British intelligence

So was Miss Moneypenny, as she was referred to in James Bond novels and films, a real person? It turns out, yes. Annette Young talks to Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall, the author of ‘Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence’ about the w…

Las Vegas man arrested with illegal firearms outside Trump Coachella rally

Vem Miller was released on bond less than 24 hours after being arrested.

Iran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them.

Roughly a dozen national security aides from the Trump White House are feared to be Iranโ€™s hit list. Itโ€™s hard to protect them all.

Trump requests military plane, increased protection amid security threats

Biden pledges โ€œevery single thing he needs.โ€

Trumpโ€™s return to Butler marks a dramatically changed US race

โ€œThereโ€™s a message here, right? To come back to the scene,โ€ said one Republican.

The EUโ€™s most pointless job

Josep Borrell loves to condemn things โ€” sometimes in the “strongest possible terms.” Does it ever have any impact?

The pointless battle for the Tory crown

The ghost of Margaret Thatcher continued to haunt the Conservatives as an irrelevant beauty pageant played out in Birmingham.

Trump turns Hurricane Helene aftermath political

Speaking in Georgia, Trump laced into Harris, Biden and Walz, even as he acknowledged it wasnโ€™t the time or place.

The US government is keeping tabs on Americans headed to Ukraineโ€™s war zone

The previously unreported DHS monitoring effort aims to scrutinize Americans who joined the fight in Kyiv โ€” and identify if any could pose a threat when they return home.

Kamala Harris hat ein Industrie-Problem

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Trump called for โ€˜unityโ€™ after the first assassination attempt. Not this time.

The incident came up only briefly on a regularly scheduled call with surrogates and advisers.

Trumpโ€™s golf habit has raised alarms about security for years

The open expanses of golf courses pose special security concerns for the Secret Service.

Secret Service nach Trump-Mordversuch in der Kritik

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Security experts see latest Trump close call as โ€˜a failure, 100%โ€™

Trump, however, said the Secret Service did an โ€œabsolutely outstandingโ€ job.

US is navigating a โ€˜dangerous threat environment.โ€™ Itโ€™s different from any other election cycle.

The second apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump is the latest peril in a race that has been defined by anger and threats.

Ukraine brushes off links to wannabe Trump assassin

Volodymyr Zelenskyy sends “best wishes” to the Republican candidate, while the International Legion dismisses any connection with Ryan Wesley Routh.

Trumpโ€™s European allies leap to his defense as FBI probes new โ€˜attempted assassinationโ€™

Shooter was just a few hundred meters away from former U.S. president.

Trump nach versuchtem Attentat โ€šwohlaufโ€˜

US-Politik fรผr Sie entschlรผsselt. Jeden Tag in Ihrem Postfach. Im Browser anzeigen oder hier anhรถren von JAKOB HANKE VELA Mit CARLOTTA DIEDERICH DIE TOP-THEMEN โ€” TRUMP NACH SCHรœSSEN IN SICHERHEIT: Mehrere Schรผsse fielen am Sonntag in der Nรคhe von Donald Trump. Der ehemalige Prรคsident ist in Sicherheit, ein Verdรคchtiger in Gewahrsam. โ€” CHINA-SCHLUPFLOCH ZU: Prรคsident [โ€ฆ]

Harris โ€˜deeply disturbedโ€™ by possible assassination attempt: โ€˜I condemn political violence.โ€™

The vice president said she is โ€œthankful that former President Trump is safe.โ€

Republicans outraged over possible assassination attempt: โ€˜They are going to keep trying to kill Trumpโ€™

Denunciations of political violence from across the political spectrum quickly gave way to partisan finger-pointing.

FBI now investigating Florida incident as โ€˜an attempted assassinationโ€™ on Trump

The former president was unharmed.

Venezuela arrests US, EU citizens over alleged coup to kill Maduro

Caracas accused U.S. citizens, two Spaniards and a Czech national of exporting โ€œdestabilizationโ€ to the South American country.

ย โ€˜Weโ€™re the only plane in the sky:โ€™ 9/11 on board Air Force One

Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board.

Melania Trump questions official account of assassination attempt on her husband

Itโ€™s the first time the former first lady has spoken about the shooting on camera.

Poland wants 3 Belarusians behind bars for Ryanair diversion

The Ryanair flight was forced to to land in Minsk, where opposition blogger Raman Pratasevich and his partner were arrested.

FBI sees โ€˜no definitive ideologyโ€™ for Trump shooter

In the month before the assassination attempt, the shooter searched online for information about Donald Trump, Joe Biden and both partiesโ€™ national conventions.

Pakistani man charged with murder-for-hire plot that may have targeted Trump

U.S. officials see ties to Iran, but no link to the assassination attempt on the former president last month.

Trump congratulates Putin on โ€˜greatโ€™ hostage swap

The Republican nominee painted the Russian leader as the clear winner of a historic prisoner swap that led to the release of several Americans.

Disquiet in Germany, Poland over prisoner swap

The deal could incentivize Russia to imprison more innocent people, critics say.

US-Russia prisoner swap frees Evan Gershkovich, more than a dozen others

Russia released more than a dozen prisoners โ€” including Americans, Germans, and Russian dissidents โ€” on Thursday in one of the biggest and most complex prisoner swaps in U.S. history. Three of the those freed were American citizens: journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, and former Marine Paul Whelan. Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, a U.S. resident, [โ€ฆ]

โ€˜Iโ€™m happy for everyone released, but there is also sadnessโ€™: film-maker Odessa Rae on todayโ€™s momentous prisoner swap

The Oscar-winning documentary-maker was instrumental in the historic US-Russian prisoner swap, but she says, the one person missing from the deal was her friend Alexei Navalny. She talks about her last conversation with him, her new film about the Tali…

FBI: Trump has agreed to interview about assassination attempt

โ€œWe want to get his perspective on what he observed,โ€ an FBI official said of the victim interview.

German government holds off on prisoner swap with Belarus, for now

Lukashenko may team up with Putin on large-scale prisoner exchange, observers believe.

US Secret Service director resigns after Trump shooting fallout

Director Kimberly Cheatle revealed her decision in an internal message to Secret Service employees.

Why Biden finally quit

The Saturday night decision that ended Bidenโ€™s reelection campaign.

US received intel of Iranian plot to assassinate Trump, CNN reports

The US received intelligence in recent weeks about an Iranian plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump, CNN said on Tuesday (16 July), and a US official said the Secret Service shared details of an increased threat with the Trump campaign.

The Trump assassination attempt rattled the US. Hereโ€™s what we know about the investigation.

The latest on how the would-be assassin got a gun, the Secret Service headโ€™s regret and the startling unknowns about the shooter.

โ€˜Thereโ€™s More to Comeโ€™: What the Trump Shooting Says about Domestic Extremism

A former top Homeland Security Department official discusses the fallout from the Trump assassination attempt.

Trump assassination attempt: Focus on Secret Service

The US Secret Service was under intense scrutiny after a gunman managed to evade its agents and open fire on former President Donald Trump at a political rally, with Republican leaders vowing swift investigations and President Joe Biden calling for an …

โ€˜Massive security breachโ€™: Secret Service under fire after gunman got clear shot at Trump

How a gunman could scale a roof where Trump was speaking prompts calls for investigation.

Like with several other US leaders, luck saved Trump

Trump is not the first incumbent or former U.S. president to have narrowly escaped an assassination attempt โ€” and chance has often played a part.

The known unknowns of the Trump shooting

Thereโ€™s more questions than answers right now. Here are a few weโ€™re thinking about.

Timeline: Assassinations of American presidents and presidential candidates

Assassination plots have been a part of American political life since the 19th century.

European leaders denounce political violence after shocking Trump shooting

Leaders across Europe warn against surge of political violence.

Blood turns to martyrdom as Republicans rally around Trump

The incident served to reinforce one of the pillars of Trumpโ€™s image: Strength.

โ€˜Fight! Fight! Fight!โ€™ Supporters turn Trump shooting into campaign merch

Trump backers are already trying to take advantage of the assassination attempt to rally support for his reelection bid โ€” and make money in the meantime.

Trumpโ€™s raised fist will make history โ€” and define his candidacy

In wake of shooting, GOP officials are quick to blame Democrats for demonizing the former president.