Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe again vowed to take a hard look at the agency’s strategy and procedures after the latest threat to former President Trump. amna speaks to Carol Leonnig for more.

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BREAKING - Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani injured by pager explosion, Iran's Mehr news agency says

.John Kennedy: You support Hamas, do you not? Arab American Institute's Maya Berry: Hamas is a foreign terrorist organization that I do not support...You asking the executive director of the Arab American Institute that question very much puts the focus on the issue of hate in our country?

“Absolute chaos and mayhem across Lebanon” after exploding pagers kill at least 9 and wound 2,800, in what Kim Ghattas says is “clearly a targeted attack by Israel against Hezbollah operatives.” The Israeli military is refusing to comment on the explosions.

Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket propublica.org/article/judge-…

NEW: JD Vance eviscerated the GOP in 2012 article for a think tank he later asked be deleted, calling them “openly hostile to non-whites” & alienating “Blacks, Latinos, and the youth.” It also attacked the GOP for wanting to deport 12 million undocumented. cnn.com/2024/09/17/pol…

VP Harris on Springfield, Ohio & Trump: This is not new in terms of this tropes and where it's coming from. ... Whether its the Central Park Five, or refusing the rent to Black tenants, or questioning the birthplace of the first Black president. "It's gotta stop," Harris says.

The 2024 election season has been repeatedly marked by extraordinary acts and threats of violence, prompting heightened security measures at events and becoming a more contentious issue. wapo.st/3ZwR6iT

A pro-Palestinian student group has accused the University of Maryland in College Park of violating students’ First Amendment rights by canceling a vigil planned for Oct. 7 to mourn the people who have died in Gaza over the last year. wapo.st/4e4R3zb

Spent the day camped out in front of this Taiwan office, trying to figure out how their brand of pagers is connected to Hungary and Lebanon and then simultaneously blew up on Tuesday. Story here, tho still tons of Q’s unanswered: npr.org/2024/09/18/g-s…

At the funeral of several people who were killed yesterday — and another explosion just happened. Panic here now. #lebanon #beirut

The head of the Nassau County PD, Commissioner Patrick Ryder, where the Trump rally is being held: "Reports of explosives being found at the site [of the Trump rally] are unfounded. There is a person who is being questioned who may have been training a bomb detection dog near

Americans can now renew passports online and bypass cumbersome paper applications apnews.com/article/passpo…

Indiana woman pleads guilty to a federal hate crime for using a folding knife to repeatedly stab a female student of Asian descent on a bus in Bloomington, Indiana. heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/cri… "Bloomington woman pleads guilty to stabbing Asian IU student on city bus in 2023"

BREAKING: Iranian hackers sent unsolicited information stolen from Donald Trump's campaign to people associated with Joe Biden's campaign, the FBI says. apnews.com/article/iran-f…

Ryan Routh had no assets, no retirement savings, no bank account, he wrote in an e-book describing his time in Ukraine that he predicted no one would read, until a seeming unraveling put him within striking distance of former president Donald Trump. wapo.st/3zoO0mo

Some said they only learned what happened after the FBI showed them the photos of being assaulted while unconscious. “My body looks like a corpse on his bed,” one victim said of the photos. “Now I have these nightmares of seeing myself dead.” via The Associated Press

BREAKING: The search for a man suspected of wounding five people on a Kentucky highway ends with the discovery of a body believed to be the shooter. apnews.com/article/inters…

JD Vance posted about Springfield, Ohio, nearly every day for a week. And nearly every day he got facts wrong -- not just about cat-eating. via Glenn Kessler washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…