Trump safe after what FBI describes as an assassination attempt
MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump was playing golf Sunday afternoon in Florida when a Secret Service agent spotted a man with a rifle standing by a chain-link fence on the perimeter of the course, law enforcement officials said.
Suspected gunman with Hawaii ties said he was willing to fight and die in Ukraine
Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man who was arrested Sunday in connection with what the FBI described as an attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump, had expressed the desire to fight and die in Ukraine.
At funeral in Turkey, family mourns American activist killed by Israeli gunfire
DIDIM, Turkey — With Turkish flags flying and chants of “God is great” resounding through the cemetery, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, was laid to rest Saturday in a town on Turkey’s Aegean coast.
In Springfield, Ohio, threats leave Haitian residents shaken
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — After a week that saw schools, businesses and City Hall closed in Springfield, Ohio, by bomb threats, this weekend began with two of the city’s hospitals going on lockdown. A sweep of both facilities Saturday morning turned up nothing, but the new threats only added to the unease hanging over the city since former President Donald Trump dragged it into the race for the White House.
Japan tries to reclaim its clout as a global tech leader
China’s envy-inducing success in using industrial policy to expand its economy and finance green manufacturing has helped kick off a fevered scrimmage among nations to develop and protect their own hometown businesses.
Starliner astronauts say what they’ll miss during extended stay in space
Nineteen astronauts across three spacecraft are in orbit around Earth — a record in the history of human spaceflight. Two of them, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA, were not originally scheduled to be up there at this time.
Boar’s Head shuts down Virginia plant tied to listeria deaths
Boar’s Head announced Friday that it would indefinitely shut down the troubled Virginia deli meat plant that it acknowledged had caused a deadly listeria outbreak, killing nine people and sickening dozens more in 18 states.
Boeing’s strike halts airplane production at key plants
Thousands of Boeing workers went on strike Friday after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract their union negotiated, a potentially costly disruption to the aerospace giant as it tries to recover from a series of safety crises.
Harris visits red areas of Pennsylvania, hoping to cut into Trump’s edge
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned through Pennsylvania’s conservative interior Friday, aiming to shave a few percentage points off former President Donald Trump’s winning margins in parts of the state where he remains popular.
China raises retirement age for the first time since the 1950s
BEIJING — The Chinese government on Friday approved a plan to raise the country’s statutory retirement age, currently among the lowest in the world, in a long-awaited but broadly unpopular effort to address the challenge of its rapidly aging population.
Pope says both Trump and Harris are ‘against life’
Asked his advice to Catholic voters in the coming U.S. presidential election, Pope Francis said they must choose the “lesser of two evils” because “both are against life” — Kamala Harris for her support for abortion rights, and Donald Trump for closing the door to immigrants.
The big city is vibrant. Birds there may be getting less so.
Some popular city dwellers appear to be losing their colorful allure, and not just the dirty birds.
Biden administration ratchets up tariffs on Chinese goods
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday announced measures that will add tariffs to Chinese products worth tens of billions of dollars, a move intended to protect U.S. factories and project a tough-on-China approach before the presidential election.
Threats unnerve Ohio city after Trump’s false claims
WASHINGTON — The dogs and cats of Springfield, Ohio, appear to be perfectly safe, but many of its people are finding their lives upended this week by political rumormongering that has resulted in multiple bomb threats, school closures and a decision to dispatch the FBI.
Biden slams Trump over false story of pet-eating immigrants: ‘This has to stop’
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden angrily denounced former President Donald Trump on Friday for continuing to traffic in false rumors about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, unfounded tales that have roiled a community in Ohio and inflamed the presidential campaign.
When political memes take on a lie of their own
By the time the Arizona Republican Party’s digital billboards urging Phoenix residents to “EAT LESS KITTENS” and “Vote Republican!” went up on Tuesday, the story they referred to had already been widely debunked.
Harris, after a debate success, confronts a battleground ‘game of inches’
PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris’ strong debate performance has sent her campaign surging into the final weeks of the race with newfound confidence, sharper ideas about how to convince the country that former President Donald Trump is unfit for office, and a host of questions about what comes next.
First private spacewalk in SpaceX capsule achieves new milestone
Two private astronauts moved outside their spacecraft early Thursday morning, conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk.
What to know about the major wildfires burning in the West
Fueled by warm weather and gusty winds, more than 70 large fires were blazing across the United States on Wednesday. Most of them are in the West, where tens of thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes to escape encroaching flames.
ABC’s matter-of-fact moderators built factual guardrails around Trump
PHILADELPHIA — Fifteen minutes into Tuesday’s debate, former President Donald Trump was delivering a circuitous answer about his stance on abortion rights when he made a statement with no basis in reality: that a governor had condoned executing babies after birth.
