The Senate released a report detailing the critical missteps that allowed a gunman to climb a building and open fire on President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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The Senate released a report detailing the critical missteps that allowed a gunman to climb a building and open fire on President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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A rare earths mine in Wyoming is drawing national attention to what is otherwise a high plains flyspeck with a single gas station, dollar store, and four bars along the Tongue River.
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Some Social Security recipients could experience a payment garnishment as an agency clawback policy on previous overpayments doled out to seniors goes into effect later in July.
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Five Republican-led states are considering building detention sites within their borders similar to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump is assisted by the Secret Service after gunfire rang out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters/File Photo) |
The Senate released a report detailing the critical missteps that allowed a gunman to climb a building and open fire on President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024, and faulted the Secret Service for its discipline and “pattern of denials, mismanagement, and missed warning signs.”
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee investigated the events leading up to and after July 13, 2024, when a 20-year-old gunman climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research building during a Trump campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show and opened fire on Trump, who was running for reelection at the time.
The man fired eight shots and struck four people, including Trump. One of the rallygoers—Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief—died while shielding his family from the bullets. Two others were injured but survived. “This was not a single error,” the report states. “It was a cascade of preventable failures that nearly cost President Trump his life.” The report culminated from a yearlong bipartisan investigation that conducted 17 transcribed interviews with Secret Service personnel and reviewed more than 75,000 pages of documents from federal, state, and local law enforcement entities.
The Secret Service’s “disturbing pattern of communication failures and negligence” was faulted for the shooting, according to the report. (More) More Politics: |
- President Donald Trump said in an interview published on July 13 that he is “satisfied” with federal officials’ investigation and response regarding the first assassination attempt made against him one year ago at a rally in Pennsylvania that resulted in a bullet injury to his right ear.
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Residents of the Pennsylvania town where the assassination attempt occurred told The Epoch Times they still wonder about the circumstances surrounding the attack.
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that the Trump administration is trying to remake the Federal Emergency Management Agency rather than dismantle it.
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A mine in Wyoming is drawing national attention to what is otherwise a high plains flyspeck with a single gas station, dollar store, and four bars along the Tongue River. Tumbling out of the Bighorn Mountains, Brook Mine will be the first new coal mine to open in Wyoming in 50 years, as well as the first critical mineral and rare earth mine to open in the United States in more than 70 years. “This one mine can break our reliance on China,” Ramaco Resources CEO and Chairman Randall Atkins said at a July 11 ceremonial ribbon-cutting for the mine about three miles away, at Ramaco’s offices and labs. The nearest town is Ranchester, Wyoming, which has 1,064 residents. It is less than 10 miles south of the Montana state line and about 180 miles east of Yellowstone National Park. “Not every day do you get to see history being made, but that’s exactly what we’re doing here today,” he told the roughly 300 people gathered, recalling that a decade ago, the coal industry’s prognosis was grim.
“They said coal was dead and gone,“ Atkins said. ”Today, we’re breathing new life with a commodity America has an abundance of. This is just the beginning. If we can do it here in Wyoming, we can do it everywhere.”
The ribbon-cutting drew a high-profile retinue, including Energy Secretary Chris Wright; Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon; Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.); Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.); state lawmakers; and former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), who joined Ramaco’s board in April.
“The generations of coal miners who gave us the lives we have today, those same coal miners that are still delivering the world’s largest source of electricity, they’re going to give us, through mining of those same coal resources, these rare earth elements ... and they’re going to bring us back,” Wright said, calling for a “revolution” in domestic energy self-sufficiency, especially in processing critical minerals and rare earths. (More)
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Evacuation orders were issued and high-water rescue operations were executed once again across central Texas on Sunday as heavy rain brought another round of river flooding to the already-devastated region.
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Eight Chinese nationals on student visas in the United States have been indicted for their alleged role in a scam targeting elderly Americans through fraudulent computer pop-ups, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced on July 11.
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Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona confirmed it lost its Grand Canyon Lodge and several historic cabins along its North Rim due to a rapid 500-acre expansion of the Dragon Bravo Fire on July 12.
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As the World Health Organization celebrated the adoption of a landmark pandemic treaty in May, the United States deepened its criticism of the United Nations agency—which it contends has become corrupt, beholden to special interests, and diverted from its core mission.
While a U.S. delegation was absent from the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva—where member states approved the world’s first pandemic agreement with 124 votes in favor, no objections, and 11 abstentions—U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered an address via video.
“I urge the world’s health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call. It isn’t that President Trump and I have lost interest in international cooperation—not at all,” Kennedy said, adding that the United States was already in contact with “like-minded” countries. He proposed an alternative global system, inviting fellow health ministers around the world to cooperate outside the limits of a “moribund” WHO. The Trump administration initiated the year-long process of withdrawing from the agency in January. His first administration started the process in 2020, but President Joe Biden reversed course.
WHO said in a statement that it hopes the United States will reconsider, highlighting a successful partnership that has since its founding 1948 “saved countless lives and protected Americans and all people from health threats,” and pointing to ongoing reforms.
Without a solid plan, Kennedy’s proposal may be unlikely to draw many defectors, beyond Argentina, which has also withdrawn from the WHO. But his criticism of the agency points to a much deeper debate over the future of global public health.
In the long shadow of COVID-19, there is an increasing trend toward prioritizing pandemic response—billions of dollars for vaccines, surveillance, and high-tech attempts to find and control diseases, including those that don’t yet exist.
In a world of limited resources, this paradigm often abrades with one that prioritizes health promotion—the more banal work of strengthening local health systems and addressing underlying determinants such as nutrition, sanitation, and economic development.
The Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, with its focus on holistic health promotion and the root causes of chronic disease, philosophically aligns with the latter approach.
At the same time, its exit from the WHO and its cuts to foreign aid, including the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), are sending shockwaves through the system. (More) More World News: |
- President Donald Trump will meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte this week, in the wake of Trump’s announced plan to sell weapons and ammunition to NATO, which would go on to sell and transfer these to Ukraine.
- The United States is requiring South Korea to support its strategy of containing communist China as a condition for bilateral shipbuilding cooperation, a South Korean official said on July 11.
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Since the start of July, China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign requiring high net worth Chinese pay a retroactive 20 percent tax on foreign income dating back to 2020, according to insiders.
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You pick up two oatmeal options at the store. Both claim to be 100 percent whole grain oats. Both have 27 grams of carbohydrates. One takes 30 minutes to cook; the other is ready in 90 seconds. To you, it’s a matter of convenience—but to your body, they’re two entirely different foods. That subtle difference can affect everything from your energy and appetite to your blood sugar.
In recent years, carbs have gotten a bad rap—but not all of them deserve it. So what makes a carbohydrate truly healthy? It’s not just the number of grams on the label—it’s how the carb behaves in your body.
Carbohydrates are chains that your body has to break apart. Digestion is how your body clips those chains into smaller molecules that your cells can actually use. The more processed a carb is—whether by a factory, knife, or blender—the faster it’s absorbed. And that speed changes how your body reacts. Sometimes health isn’t just about what kind of food you eat but how hard your body has to work to process it, and how long that takes. With Dr. David A. Kessler, the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, now calling for a low-carb option in the official dietary guidelines, it’s the perfect time to rethink what makes a carbohydrate truly healthy and combat the misperception that all carbs are unhealthy.
Several factors shape carb response, including fiber content, food combinations, the carb’s processing, and your activity level. Understanding how these factors affect digestion and blood sugar can help you make more informed and personalized choices. (More) |
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