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BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time. A barrage of gunfire set off panic, and a bloodied Trump, who said he was shot in the ear, was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried to his SUV as he pumped his fist in a show of defiance.Trump’s campaign said the presumptive GOP nominee was doing “fine” after the shooting, which he said pierced the upper part of his right ear.“I knew immediately that something…

ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of flour mills across the country, which had postponed a nationwide strike over the implementation of source tax until July 22, will resume “normal” operations from today, Sunday, easing fears of flour shortage, state-run Radio Pakistan said. Hundreds of flour mills across Pakistan on Thursday responded to a call by the Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA), which represents over 900 flour mills, and went on strike against the 5.5 percent withholding tax imposed on flour mill sales in the federal budget for 2024-25, which came into effect on July 1. According to the PFMA, the government has directed…

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) won the Vikravandi by-election in Tamil Nadu. The counting of votes for the Vikravandi Assembly seat took place on Saturday, July 13, 2024. DMK’s Anniyur Siva (Sivashanmugam A) won with a margin of 67,757 votes. 29 candidates contested to be elected as the next Vikravandi Assembly Member. The by-election to this Assembly constituency was necessitated following the death of N. Pugazhenthi.Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader Stalin was seen distributing sweets to party workers at the party office in Chennai as the party takes a lead in the Vikravandi Assembly by-elections. about75. Vikravandi is…

The 2024 MLB Draft begins Sunday, with the Cleveland Guardians scheduled to make the first overall selection at the Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas, as part of this year’s All-Star festivities. Day 1 of the Draft, scheduled to start at 7 p.m. ET, will feature the first 74 picks: the first two rounds, as well as two rounds of competitive balance picks, plus two picks awarded to teams that lost qualifying free agents. Most notably, that includes pick No. 74, the compensation pick awarded to the Angels for losing Shohei Ohtani in free agency.Day 2 begins at 2 p.m.…

Reformist lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian was elected Iran’s new president on July 5, following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month. While Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei holds the highest power in the country, the presidency carries some influence and the reformist victory has revived hopes of change. This could have implications for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s relations with neighboring Pakistan amid growing speculation that Iran under Pezeshkian may open up more to the West.Pezeshkian, who is due to be sworn in on July 30, is the only moderate among the six candidates in…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Criminal case Alec Baldwin It started with bullet handling, and it ended with bullet handling.when Director of photography: Halina Hutchins When Hutchins was shot and killed nearly three years ago on the New Mexico set of “Lust,” one question haunted authorities but never definitively answered: How did live rounds get mixed in with the blanks and inert imitation rounds that play the role of bullets onscreen — and in the revolver that Baldwin’s character pointed at Hutchins? The actor’s manslaughter trial came to an abrupt end Friday after a judge ruled that prosecutors improperly failed…

NEW YORK (AP) — SIM swapping is a growing form of identity theft that goes beyond hacking into your email and social media accounts: In this case, criminals take control of your phone number, so your calls and text messages go to them instead of you.Protections such as two-factor authentication texts that consumers have enabled to secure access to their financial accounts could aid attackers and lock out owners.Experts say these scams will only continue to increase and become more sophisticated, and data shows a growing trend: The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center reports that SIM swapping complaints increased by…

The shooting at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday evening prompted a flurry of reactions from government leaders. As Democrats and Republicans from both parties condemned the violence, some of Trump’s supporters shared images of the former president raising his fist after the shooting and described him as a tenacious warrior.”There is no room for this kind of violence in America,” Biden said during a speech at the Rehoboth Beach Police Department in Delaware. “This is terrible. … This shouldn’t happen. We cannot tolerate this.”Biden, the leading Democratic candidate to face Trump in November’s general election, said…

The document does not specify a timeline for construction, but China aims to send astronauts to the moon by 2030 and build a research base on the lunar south pole with international partners around 2035.”A constellation of satellites in near-lunar space can provide real-time, high-precision navigation and positioning for lunar surface travel, landing and takeoff, and support frequent human exploration of the lunar surface in the long term,” wrote the team, led by Peng Jing, deputy chief designer of China’s lunar rover. Chang’e 5 Mission.”Our study presents a roadmap for the step-by-step assembly of such a constellation, expanding coverage from…

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman endorsed Donald Trump for the US presidential election on July 14. He posted on X: “I’m officially endorsing @realDonaldTrump. As many @X followers have already understood from my posts supporting Trump and criticizing @POTUS Biden, I made this decision some time ago. His comments came amid the attempted shooting of Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.” “I haven’t done so formally yet because I want to explain my thinking in detail and address the arguments made by others who oppose Trump. I want to make a thoughtful and compelling case,” he said. “It…