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MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump chose Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate on Monday, picking a onetime critic who became a loyal ally and is now the first millennial to join a major-party ticket at a time of deep concern about the advanced age of America’s...

The U.S. Secret Service has implemented changes to former President Donald Trump’s security detail after an assassination attempt Saturday at a Butler County rally that resulted in him being wounded and a bystander and the suspected gunman being killed. In a lengthy statement released Monday, the first by Director Kimberly...

MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention starts Monday in Milwaukee, two days after Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt, with the violent scene at his campaign rally horrifying the country and amplifying already intense political divisions. Trump and his advisers are pledging resilience in the face of the...

MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump said he plans to announce his vice presidential pick on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention. Fox News says the announcement is expected sometime in the 4 p.m. hour. It remains unclear whether the assassination attempt Saturday at his Pennsylvania rally has changed...

MacArthur’s bad speech 1952 Before the advent of primary elections, party insiders chose the presidential candidates after hearing from all the candidates at the convention. Gen. Douglas MacArthur delivered a keynote speech during the 1952 convention in Chicago that was so bad it boosted his rival, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, to...

Republican National Conventions of years past have simmered with intrigue, speculation and pivotal moments, but this year could shape up to have one singular focus: Trump. Former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear Saturday during a Butler County rally. Shots killed Corey Comperatore of Buffalo Township, who was...

Violence and democracy cannot exist in the same arena. On Saturday, former president and GOP candidate Donald Trump was struck by a bullet as he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in Butler County. Trump, bloodied and defiant, was quickly removed from the stage. Despite the injury to his...

WASHINGTON — Calls for an investigation into the U.S. Secret Service came from all sides Sunday in the wake an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump — a devastating failure of one of the agency’s core duties. The Secret Service is investigating how a gunman — identified by...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden warned Sunday of the the risks of political violence in the U.S. after Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, saying, “It’s time to cool it down.” In a prime-time national address from the Oval Office, Biden said political passions can run high but...

Investigators said they were still working Sunday to determine what drove a Bethel Park man to open fire on a political rally the evening before in Butler County, killing a Buffalo Township man and wounding former President Donald Trump. Two others, including a man from Plum and one from Moon,...

Donald Trump said Sunday morning that he still plans to attend and speak at the Republican National Convention that kicks off Monday in Milwaukee, despite an apparent assassination attempt. “I truly love our Country, and love you all, and look forward to speaking to our Great Nation this week from...

Malphine Fogel had former President Donald Trump’s full attention, and then everything exploded into chaos. The 95-year-old Butler woman met Saturday with Trump, the GOP presidential candidate, to discuss her son’s imprisonment in Russia. It was the most recent appeal to a powerful political figure to intercede on Marc Fogel’s...

Here’s a sampling of the reaction on the social media platform X in the aftermath of the shooting at the Trump rally in Butler County Saturday: I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey has a fine line to walk. He and other Democrats fighting to hang on to hotly contested Senate seats have seemed jittery about the turmoil surrounding President Joe Biden after his disastrous debate performance. In many cases, they’re trying to minimize any damage to...

Thousands of supporters of former President Donald Trump gathered in 90-degree heat in Butler County on Saturday, waiting in anticipation for the Republican presidential candidate to arrive as momentum builds for Trump’s official nomination next week. The rally at the Butler Farm Show complex in Butler Township comes just two...

WASHINGTON— President Joe Biden has said that only the “Lord Almighty” could convince him not to seek reelection, but a constitutional amendment that Democrats called for invoking against President Donald Trump three years ago provides a path for Biden to leave office or be removed in an extraordinary, if highly...

NEW YORK — For more than two weeks now, the Democratic Party has been mired in crisis. And yet there is no sign that the threat to Joe Biden’s reelection is nearing a conclusion, as the president digs in and a growing chorus of Democratic officials, donors and strategists calls...

Actor Ashley Judd is adding her voice to calls for President Joe Biden to step aside from the presidential race following his performance in last month’s debate, arguing that she worries he could lose to Republican Donald Trump in November. In an opinion piece for USA Today published on Friday,...

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s tribulations were previewed in Hollywood days before he got on the debate stage. At a fundraiser organized by George Clooney and packed with luminaries including former President Barack Obama, Biden was a listless figure, perhaps merely jet-lagged after flying straight from Italy but clearly not the...

For all the usual stagecraft, the Republican National Convention that opens Monday is different from Donald Trump’s previous nominating affairs. In 2016 and 2020, Trump was the underdog heading into fall and faced criticism from within his own party. This year, he will accept the Republican nomination with his party...

DETROIT — President Joe Biden on Friday forcefully defied the growing number of critics in his own party who have called on him to exit the race, pivoting to warnings about a second Donald Trump term and declaring he was “not done yet.” As a raucous Detroit crowd chanted...

President Joe Biden will hold a news conference Thursday, the key event in a monumental week during which the Democratic incumbent is fending off calls for him to step aside as the party’s presumptive nominee following a shaky debate performance. Biden is scheduled to take questions from the White House...

President Joe Biden will hold a news conference Thursday, the key event in a monumental week during which the Democratic incumbent is fending off calls for him to step aside as the party’s presumptive nominee following a shaky debate performance. It’s just the type of event that many political watchers...