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Takeaways from the Senate hearing on the Trump assassination attempt and Secret Service failure

CNN By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe provided new details about the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering forceful testimony at a Senate hearing about the agency’s failures earlier this month in Butler, Pennsylvania. But at the joint hearing of

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Takeaways from the Senate hearing on the Trump assassination attempt and Secret Service failure

By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe provided new details about the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering forceful testimony at a Senate hearing about the agency’s failures earlier this month in Butler, Pennsylvania. But at the joint hearing of the

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Takeaways from the Senate hearing on the Trump assassination attempt and Secret Service failure

CNN By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe provided new details about the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering forceful testimony at a Senate hearing about the agency’s failures earlier this month in Butler, Pennsylvania. But at the joint hearing of

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Exclusive: The inside story of John Roberts and Trump’s immunity win at the Supreme Court

CNN By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s toughest cases during Chief Justice John Roberts’ tenure have often generated internal suspense, with shifting votes, last-minute switches and the chief’s own push toward compromises that would lessen the appearance of politics. Not so this spring, when the six Republican-appointed conservatives established

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Trump’s remarks at Bitcoin event were delayed due to security concern, Secret Service says

By Evan Perez, Steve Contorno and Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s remarks to the annual Bitcoin conference on Saturday were delayed for about an hour after two individuals were removed from the premises for “not following proper entry protocols,” the United States Secret Service said. The two individuals were credentialed, the

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JD Vance’s former Yale classmate and friend says emails show political transformation on ‘literally every imaginable issue’

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — A Yale Law School friend of Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who has revealed years of emails the two previously exchanged, said Monday that the Republican vice presidential nominee is a “chameleon” who has changed his views on “literally every imaginable issue.” Sofia Nelson, a transgender public defender in

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Minnesota Spice: Gov. Tim Walz, a Harris VP contender, delights Democrats with MAGA mockery

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — The way Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tells it, the stakes of the coming presidential election are both astronomically high and strikingly simple. On one side, the former high school teacher and congressman says, is Vice President Kamala Harris – a serious, competent and experienced candidate whom he believes is aligned with

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‘Wild west of election work’: How certification fights are already cropping up in battleground states

By Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Georgia conservative Julie Adams spread conspiracies about election workers, concocted a baseless story about ballot couriers drinking beer and doing drugs while hoarding ballots, and boasted of her contentious relationship with local election officials. Then, in February, Adams was sworn in as a member of the Fulton County Board

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It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people without children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including fundraising off his now-infamous “childless cat lady” remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders “childless sociopaths”

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Exclusive: The inside story of John Roberts and Trump’s immunity win at the Supreme Court

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s toughest cases during Chief Justice John Roberts’ tenure have often generated internal suspense, with shifting votes, last-minute switches and the chief’s own push toward compromises that would lessen the appearance of politics. Not so this spring, when the six Republican-appointed conservatives established a

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‘What I saw made me ashamed’: Head of Secret Service will address security failures in hearing on Trump assassination attempt

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The US Secret Service is adjusting how it approves security plans and bolstering security measures for protectees in the wake of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump earlier this month, according to excerpts of congressional testimony Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe will deliver Tuesday. Rowe, who visited the

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JD Vance’s former Yale classmate and friend says emails show political transformation on ‘literally every imaginable issue’

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — A Yale Law School friend of Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who has revealed years of emails the two previously exchanged, said Monday that the Republican vice presidential nominee is a “chameleon” who has changed his views on “literally every imaginable issue.” Sofia Nelson, a transgender public defender in Detroit,

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JD Vance’s former Yale classmate and friend says emails show political transformation on ‘literally every imaginable issue’

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — A Yale Law School friend of Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who has revealed years of emails the two previously exchanged, said Monday that the Republican vice presidential nominee is a “chameleon” who has changed his views on “literally every imaginable issue.” Sofia Nelson, a transgender public defender in

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