|
The Washington Post reported Monday that due to an alleged Iranian threat to assassinate President Trump, he secretly swapped planes before departing the July NATO summit in Turkey — leaving senior administration officials, staff and members of the press corps on board.
"The Israelis passed a tip, a concern, that the plane and potentially the president was under threat," says Dan Lamothe, one of the Washington Postreporters who broke the story. But it turns out the "CIA had low confidence" in the Israeli tip, according to a more recent Post story Lamothe co-authored on Thursday. "I think that kind of leaves the Secret Service in a tough spot of assessing: What do you do in this zero-fail mission to keep the president safe?"
|
|
There's a long list, but some are getting more traction than others.
|
RELATED ARTICLES | | |
|
In his first public comments on the operation, the president downplayed the risks to officials and journalists who remained on Air Force One for the flight from Turkey.
|
|
Darline Graham and Ralph Norman emerged from a special election sprint on Tuesday to succeed Lindsey Graham. She will sell her closeness to President Trump. He will tout his conservatism.
|
|
The lawsuit filed in federal court said President Trump "stands to gain financially by giving ‘market-moving' government information to those who are willing and able to pay his personal company."
|
|
The president has pushed to narrow which vaccines are administered to children and split shots up into multiple appointments.
|
|
In videos on social media, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she wanted "to show more depictions of women having full lives in every context and every choice."
|
|
We go to New Delhi for an update on India's youth-led, anti-government "Cockroach" movement. After weeks of street protests against Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the ruling BJP party, Pradhan tendered his resignation on Saturday. Now, however, protest leaders are accusing right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of reneging on his promise to not take punitive action against demonstrators. "Because this government and its policy is, and has always been, that of vengeance, … we are witnessing a massive crackdown on student activists across the country," says Neha Bora, a doctoral student at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the national president of the All India Students Association. Bora spent 23 days on hunger strike during the protests.
Indian writer and artist Shuddhabrata Sengupta points out that the movement is not the first major "Gen Z"-led protest in the country. Six years ago, India's streets exploded in protest of the Citizenship Amendment Act, which purported to provide asylum seekers from religious minority groups a path to citizenship, but excluded Muslims, who face severe levels of persecution under the BJP's Hindu nationalist government. "There's clearly a restlessness for change, unwillingness to accept the lies and the slander that the regime produces on a daily and a nightly basis," says Sengupta.
|
|
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Thursday in the blockbuster case over whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from prosecution in the federal election subversion case. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
|
|
