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The New York Times reports: Donald Trump’s advisers are considering whether to modify his travel after threats to his life from Iran and two assassination attempts, according to several people briefed on the matter, a shift that could affect the way the Republican nominee campaigns in the race’s final stretch. Among the discussions are what events can be secured, as …

ABC News reports: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump square off Tuesday at what could be their only presidential debate, setting high stakes for an event expected to be viewed by millions of Americans and a key sliver of undecided voters. The ABC News debate, moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis, will take place 9 p.m …

From the Justice Department: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, a complaint was unsealed charging Asif Merchant, also known as “Asif Raza Merchant,” 46, with murder-for-hire as part of a scheme to assassinate a politician or U.S. government officials on U.S. soil. Law enforcement foiled the charged plot before any attack could be carried out. Merchant is in federal …

The New York Times reports: The officer noticed a young man with long stringy hair sitting on a picnic table near the warehouse. So at 4:26 p.m., he texted his colleagues about the man, who was outside the fenced area of the Butler Fair Show grounds where Mr. Trump was to appear. He said that the person would have seen …

CNN reports: Donald Trump has agreed to sit for a victim interview with the FBI, which is investigating this month’s attempted assassination, an agency official said Monday. Victim interviews are a routine part of criminal investigations, but are voluntary. Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, told reporters on a conference call Monday that …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump plans to stop holding outdoor rallies like the one where he was shot during an assassination attempt this month in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to two sources familiar with his campaign’s operations. The sources said current plans are to hold indoor rallies, but they also said it’s possible Trump will participate in smaller outdoor …

The Associated Press reports: FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers on Wednesday that a laptop tied to the Trump rally gunman included a Google search of “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” That is a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooter who killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. The Google search, apparently by …

The New York Times reports: When the F.B.I. was able to finally access Mr. Crooks’s cellphones and other electronic devices, agents could see that he had searched for images of Mr. Trump as well as President Biden, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and even F.B.I. Director Christopher A. Wray. Mr. Crooks also typed in “major depressive disorder” and searched for …

CNN reports: US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN. There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who …

The Daily Beast reports: We downloaded the full text of Melania Trump’s statement into ChatGPT 4.0 and asked the program to assess the likelihood that the words were generated by AI. Here is ChatGPT’s response:  Repetitive and Redundant Phrases: Phrases like “I am thinking of you, my fellow Americans,” are repeated, which can sometimes be a characteristic of language models …

The New York Post reports: A grateful and at times defiant Donald Trump told The Post Sunday he’s “supposed to be dead” as he recalled the harrowing moment a would-be assassin shot him at a Pennsylvania campaign rally. The former president shared the “very surreal experience” that nearly ended his life during an interview aboard his private plane en route …

“This is a horrific act of political violence that ought to be roundly condemned. Obviously, we can’t go on like this as a society. “You know, our prayers are with President Trump, all the rally attendees, certainly the family of the individual that lost their life and those who were injured. “We have gotten briefings from law enforcement. I spoke …

Reuters reports: The Kremlin said on Sunday it did not believe the U.S. administration was responsible for Saturday’s assassination attempt on U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, but accused it of creating an atmosphere that provoked the attack. “We do not believe that the attempt to eliminate and assassinate Trump was organised by the current authorities,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told …

Reuters reports: The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the suspect in Saturday’s attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally. State voter records show that Crooks was a registered Republican. The upcoming Nov. 5 election would have been the first time Crooks had been old enough to vote in a …

CNN reports: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will have their first in-person showdown of the 2024 election cycle at CNN’s debate in Atlanta at 9 p.m. ET. With less than five months until the election, the stakes are high as the candidates make their pitch to voters on key issues such as immigration and the economy. The …

The Associated Press reports: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for the first presidential face-off in just weeks. CNN said that its debate would be held in its …

The Hill reports: President Biden on Tuesday trolled former President Trump on the fourth anniversary of him suggesting Americans inject bleach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden shared a video, marking that four years ago Trump infamously said, “I see the disinfectant, which knocks it out in a minute … is there a way we can do something like that? By …

Fox News reports: Former President Donald Trump has come to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s defense, as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., pushes for the Louisiana Republican’s ouster from the leadership position. “Well, look, we have a majority of one, OK?” Trump told radio host John Fredericks on Monday. “It’s not like he can go and do whatever he wants to …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump asked Elon Musk last summer whether the billionaire industrialist would be interested in buying Trump’s social network Truth Social, according to two people with knowledge of the conversation. The overture to Musk, whose business empire includes SpaceX, Tesla and the social networking site X, did not lead to a deal. But the …

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s new team at the Republican National Committee has tapped former RNC executive Sean Cairncross to help run the party’s operations and watch its spending in the run-up to the November election, two people familiar with the move tell Axios. Cairncross is a lawyer with a reputation of enforcing financial discipline — someone who can “watch …