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Secret Service needs to fix ‘corrosive cultural attitudes’ with its workforce to prevent a successful assassination, panel finds

Secret Service needs to fix ‘corrosive cultural attitudes’ with its workforce to prevent a successful assassination, panel finds

Similar to a bipartisan report issued last month by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the panel cited USSS for not clearly identifying who was in charge in Butler, not adequately ensuring communication and coordination between the agency and other law enforcement entities and failing to deploy agents with requisite experience.


Election-year politics color hurricane recovery efforts

Election-year politics color hurricane recovery efforts

Jeff Landry says that he plans to call the legislature into a special session in November, marking the third such gathering this year, with the hopes of overhauling the state’s current tax system that the Republican said is failing residents.


Bobbleheads, Magic 8 Balls, chairs and other artifacts in the Smithsonian reveal the historical significance of presidential debates

Bobbleheads, Magic 8 Balls, chairs and other artifacts in the Smithsonian reveal the historical significance of presidential debates

Most notably, the first debate in the 2024 cycle, between Trump and President Joe Biden, was unprecedented in that it happened before the nominating conventions and led to a change of nominee for the Democratic Party.


How Republicans and Democrats paint starkly different pictures of America

How Republicans and Democrats paint starkly different pictures of America

For Republicans, it was a notable shift from 2020, when Trump declared in his convention speech that “all children, born and unborn, have a God-given right to life.” But the politics of abortion have changed substantially since then — and the absence of the issue at the RNC reflected that.


‘The commander-in-chief test’: Harris and Trump are sparring over the military. It’s not a new playbook.

‘The commander-in-chief test’: Harris and Trump are sparring over the military. It’s not a new playbook.

In 1988, Michael Dukakis bashed Bush for the Iran–Contra Affair and staged a photo-op in a tank to cast himself as a capable military leader — though the plan went sideways when his huge helmet and grin looked more silly than strong.


Trump Is Now the ‘Old’ Candidate. It Might Matter.

Trump Is Now the ‘Old’ Candidate. It Might Matter.

At her rallies, Harris uses subtle age shade, telling crowds that Trump would “return America to a dark past” and called his comments on her race the “same old show.” Her running mate, Minnesota Gov.


State Dept. hopeful even a Trump administration would continue its hiring and reform efforts

State Dept. hopeful even a Trump administration would continue its hiring and reform efforts

While Trump and his new nominee for vice president, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, have castigated diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts at federal agencies like those Bernicat has championed and vowed to dismantle them, the ambassador said she finds it offensive that anyone would suggest those programs are leading to inferior candidates.


US allies grapple with J.D. Vance

US allies grapple with J.D. Vance

The leader of Spain’s far-right Vox party, Santiago Abascal, today called Vance the embodiment of “the American spirit of opportunity, freedom and prosperity in the face of hate, sectarianism and the privilege of progressive and globalist elites.”


Trump ‘felt the bullet’ hit his ear during campaign rally shooting

Trump ‘felt the bullet’ hit his ear during campaign rally shooting

“I saw the man standing on his own two feet and stick his fist up in the air,” said Jondavid Longo, the Republican mayor of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, who attended the rally.