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About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Robert F Kennedy, including handwritten notes by the assassin, who said the US senator and Democratic presidential candidate “must be disposed of” and acknowledged an obsession with killing him. The release continued the disclosure of national secrets ordered by Donald Trump after he began […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he prayed for “his friend” Donald Trump after an assassin’s bullet grazed the then-presidential candidate’s ear last year, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview Friday. Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, Witkoff praised Putin’s willingness to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine and said it was “preposterous” […]
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) US black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated on 21 February 1965, at the age of 39. The BBC reported on the reaction in his adopted home of Harlem, New York, as thousands of people queued to pay their last respects. At a time when black civil rights leaders were […]
Suspect faces firearms charges but denies he tried to harm former US president and Republican candidate. A United States sheriff has said law enforcement officers likely prevented a third assassination attempt against Donald Trump after a man was arrested with unregistered firearms near the Republican candidate’s California campaign rally at the weekend. Speaking to reporters on […]
Donald Trump reflects on assassination attempt in Butler Nearly three months after an assassin’s bullet came close to taking his life, former President Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania – a place of “tragedy and heartache” – to promise his supporters victory in the 5 November presidential election. One person – a volunteer fire chief […]
Donald Trump has returned to the site where he narrowly escaped assassination in July, pushing the emotional buttons of his supporters and suggesting that his political opponents “maybe even tried to kill me” to stop him regaining the White House. The Republican presidential nominee – and perennial showman – mounted an unabashedly sentimental spectacle in […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Elon Musk to attend Trump rally in Butler today Elon Musk will attend Trump’s rally in Butler this evening, the Trump campaign confirms in a list of guests joining the former president. “I will be there to support!” the tech billionaire […]
Donald Trump has been briefed by US intelligence on threats from Iran to assassinate him, his campaign said. The Republican presidential candidate was briefed “regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States”, the campaign said in a statement. It did not […]
The federal government will pursue a charge of attempted assassination against a man accused of lurking with a gun near where former President Donald J. Trump was golfing in Florida last week, prosecutors said in a court hearing on Monday. Among the government’s evidence, they said, was a note the suspect had written suggesting that […]
Trump held his first campaign event on Tuesday since the thwarted assassination attempt over the weekend, telling a packed 6,000-seat arena in Flint, Michigan that the assassin “couldn’t even get a shot off” while describing the Secret Service’s “great” response to the threat. During a town hall moderated by former White House press secretary Sarah […]