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Trump’s Vance pick’s’ bad news’ for Ukraine, Europe experts say
Donald Trump's selection of JD Vance as his vice-presidential nominee has rekindled fears in Europe that he will follow a transactional "America first" foreign policy, which might result in the US pressuring Ukraine to bow to Vladimir Putin and sue for peace with Russia. "It's bad for us, but it's terrible news for [Ukraine]," stated a senior European official in Washington. "[Vance] is not our ally." Foreign diplomats and observers have frequently referred to Trump's policies as a "black box," claiming that it is hard to foresee what the unpredictable leader will do once in power.
Biden calls for a ban on the gun used to kill Trump
Joe Biden has reiterated his plea for Congress to prohibit assault rifles, including the one used in the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump. During a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, a gunman shot at Trump from a nearby rooftop, grazing his ear. Donald Trump was shot with an AR-15 rifle. This was the assault weapon that killed countless others, including children. It's time to outlaw them, Mr. Biden said at a Las Vegas gathering.
Orbán claims Trump has ‘detailed and well-founded’ ending Ukraine war plans
Viktor Orbán claimed in a letter to a key EU committee that Donald Trump has "detailed and well-founded" plans for peace between Russia and Ukraine, escalating tensions over the Hungarian prime minister's diplomatic freelancing. Orbán, who met Trump at his Palm Beach compound last week, stated in a letter to the European Council, which includes the bloc's 27 member leaders, that the Republican presidential contender was willing to work as a peace mediator "immediately" following his election.
Trump makes first public appearance since shooting; Biden calls ‘bullseye’ comment ‘mistake’
Donald Trump attended the Republican convention on Monday night, standing with his new running partner with his bandaged ear on display. Donald Trump came to loud cheers at the National Republican Convention, wearing a white bandage over his right ear. It is the former president's first public appearance since being shot by 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks on Saturday night.
‘I was saved by chance or God,’ Trump claims
Former US President Donald Trump has stated that he is "supposed to be dead" following Saturday night's assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania. In one of his first interviews after the incident, Mr Trump told conservative US media that he believed he had been saved "by luck or by God". "The most incredible thing was that I happened to not only turn [my head], but turn at the exact right time and in just the right amount," he added, adding that the bullet that grazed his ear might have easily killed him.
Biden, Trump emphasize togetherness after rally shooting upends presidential race
Following Trump's narrow escape from an attempted assassination, US President Joe Biden and his Republican opponent, Donald Trump, have urged Americans to put aside their differences and unite. In a six-and-a-half-minute speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, Biden stated that political violence cannot be normalized and that all Americans must "cool it down" when it comes to hot political rhetoric. We cannot, and must not, continue down this route in America. Biden added that we've been there before in our history.
Pennsylvania town responds to Trump rally shooting: ‘The language needs to stop’
On Sunday, the small community of Butler, Pennsylvania, was having to come to grips with being the scene of a significant attempted US political assassination amidst tight security and closed roadways. Many people attended church to try to make sense of what had happened. Father Kevin Fazio once asked the congregation jammed into pews to "pray for our nation," but most of his flock appeared humbled by the violence coming to town. The Butler Farm Show fairgrounds, less than a quarter of a mile away, remains a crime scene, as do the gantries that hang massive stars and stripes and concert-sized speakers over Donald Trump's rallies, and the roof of AGR Industries, from which a gunman fired on the former president, is visible.
Conspiracy, hate dominated social feeds post-Trump shooting
Within minutes of the announcement of former President Donald Trump's assassination attempt, the phrase began trending on X in the United States. It's a term that has become synonymous with conspiracy theories on the margins of social media, frequently used to cast doubt on an attack or shooting. However, in the last 24 hours, it has spilled into mainstream online debate, with posts total of evidence-free speculation, hatred, and abuse receiving millions of views on X.
Trump rally shooting victim ‘dove on his family’ to avoid bullets
According to his family's Facebook post, 50-year-old firefighter Corey Comperatore died during the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump. "My brother, Corey Comperatore, was killed at the Pennsylvania Trump Rally." The hatred for one man claimed the life of the one man we loved the most," his sister Dawn Comperatore Schafer wrote in a statement on Sunday. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Comperatore previously served as chief of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company.
Self-proclaimed peacemaker Orban goes global without a plan
Hungary's Viktor Orban has no peace proposal. Still, he has spent the past two weeks on a one-person trip to Kyiv, Moscow, Azerbaijan, Beijing, Washington, and even Mar-a-Lago, infuriating EU and US officials. "Peace will not come by itself in the Russia-Ukraine war; someone must make it," he declares in daily videos posted to his Facebook page. Brussels and Washington have roundly chastised him for undermining EU and NATO unity by cozying up to Vladimir Putin and China's leader, Xi Jinping.
Thomas Matthew Crooks: Trump attacker information
The small Pittsburgh neighbourhood of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, is reeling after the FBI identified a young local man, Thomas Matthew Crooks, as the person who shot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally, shocking the country. Investigators suspect Crooks, equipped with an AR-style weapon, opened fire on the former president when he was addressing a gathering in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one and badly injuring two others. A Secret Service sniper shot and killed the 20-year-old kitchen worker on the scene, according to officials.
Due to concealed evidence, Alec Baldwin’s shooting trial is dismissed
A US judge has rejected Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter prosecution, ruling that the state concealed evidence on how live bullets wound up on a film set where a cinematographer was tragically shot. The trial, which began three days ago, came to a dramatic end on Friday when Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer threw out the case based on police and prosecutor misconduct in withholding evidence from the defence during cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' 2021 shooting on the set of the film Rust.