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Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Secret Service missed 102 radio calls warning of Trump’s Butler shooter, watchdog finds

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

Emergency personnel investigate the site of a plane crash at the Butler Memorial Airport in Butler, Mo., Sunday, June 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)

Some of the skydivers killed in Missouri plane crash were experienced jumpers

By Kristin M. Hall and Cathy Bussewitz - Associated Press

Ambulance. File image credit Chris D swabb via Shutterstock.

All 12 occupants dead in Missouri plane crash, state highway patrol says

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FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a roundtable on criminal cartels with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Show your work on Trump’s would-be assassin, Mr. Patel

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is escorted to a motorcade following an attempted assassination at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

A year after assassination attempt, Secret Service discipline ‘far too weak,’ Senate report says

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

A campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

GAO: Secret Service failed to share intelligence on threat to Trump with agents at Butler rally

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. A senior FBI official says the gunman in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opportunity." (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

One year since assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, ‘The American people don’t have answers’

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Then-Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. President-elect Donald Trump will choose Sean Curran, right, as Secret Service Director. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Lawmakers wanted an outsider to lead Secret Service but accept Trump’s inside pick

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

FILE - Ronald Rowe, acting director of the U.S. Secret Service, speaks to reporters at the agency's headquarters in Washington, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, Pool, File)

Secret Service head vows accountability for ‘abject failure’ in first Trump assassination attempt

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Chairman Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., speaks in front of a site map at the first public hearing of a bipartisan congressional task force investigating the assassination attempts against Donald Trump, at Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

House subpoenas ATF employees in Trump assassination probe

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., an ally of former President Donald Trump, arrives as senators go to the chamber for votes ahead of the approaching Memorial Day recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2021. Senate Republicans are ready to deploy the filibuster to block a commission on the Jan. 6 insurrection, shattering chances for a bipartisan probe of the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol and reviving pressure to do away with the procedural tactic that critics say has lost its purpose. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators investigating Secret Service prod Trump to pick an outsider to lead the troubled agency

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Secret Service ‘mistakenly assessed’ risks in Butler before Trump assassination attempt, review says

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

House task force says Trump assassination attempt on July 13 was ‘preventable’

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Secret Service needs overhaul, director from outside agency, says independent review panel

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about the federal government's response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene as as Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm listens, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden approves Trump’s request for military aircraft, vehicles amid Iran assassination threat

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Dodge County Airport, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, in Juneau, Wis. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

For Trump, Butler is now a powerful symbol of both his 2024 campaign and his life

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

A U.S. Secret Service agent looks at the site before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show, the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National security risk exposed: Why were 10 of 12 agents left clueless at Trump’s July Butler rally?

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

A statue of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump is set up on a truck ahead of a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How the Butler shooting changed Donald Trump’s campaign

By Jill Colvin - Associated Press

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump pauses for a moment of silence at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Back in Butler, Trump says, ‘I will never yield — not even in the face of death itself’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

The campaign rally site is seen near sunrise before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at the Butler Farm Show, the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump is returning to the site of Pennsylvania assassination attempt for a rally with Vance and Musk

By Julie Carr Smyth - Associated Press