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Previous edition 22 August: Breaking: Urgent manhunt for Arizona suspect who threatened to shoot Trump during visit to the border today
Breaking: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his independent presidential campaign, endorses Trump | 23 Aug 2024 | Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy announced Friday that he suspending his 2024 presidential campaign. “I want everyone to know I am not terminating my campaign,” he said during the press conference. “I am simply suspending it, but not ending it.” Kennedy will attempt to keep his campaign alive despite removing himself from at least one battleground state, Pennsylvania, and backing the reelection campaign of former GOP President Donald Trump. “Three great causes drove me to enter the race in the first place,” he said. “Primarily…these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent and now throw my support behind President Trump…these causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine and the war on our children.” Prior to his announcement, Kennedy Jr. said in a Pennsylvania court filing that he would be endorsing former President Donald Trump, according to The Associated Press.
RFK Jr. officially suspends 2024 campaign and endorses Trump in Pennsylvania court filing | 23 Aug 2024 | Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his much-anticipated announcement Friday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race for the White House — and said in a Pennsylvania court filing that he will endorse former President Donald Trump. Kennedy, 70, made the announcement just days after speculation started swirling that he planned to axe his campaign and endorse former President Donald Trump instead. He was influenced by talks between Trump allies and his team, as well as being snubbed by Democrats throughout the campaign, sources had earlier told The Post. In a speech Friday, he criticized the unprecedented events of the 2024 election so far, slamming Democrats for installing Harris without her appearing in a primary.
Multiple Secret Service agents put on leave following Trump assassination attempt –Secret Service members put on leave nearly 6 weeks after Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania | 23 Aug 2024 | At least five members of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) have been placed on administrative leave following the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Fox News has confirmed. One member of Trump’s personal protective team and four members of the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh Field Office, including the special agent in charge, have been sidelined nearly six weeks after the incident. The five are still employed but are teleworking and are no longer allowed in the field. They cannot do any investigative work. The news comes after the Secret Service concluded internal interviews to understand how Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire several shots from the AGR building in Butler. The Secret Service was not able to conduct the interviews right away because the FBI was interviewing them for a separate criminal investigation, according to a source briefed on both probes.
Arizona man accused of threatening to kill Trump nabbed after manhunt during former president’s border visit –Ronald Lee Syvrud made threatening posts on social media targeting Trump over a period of two days, authorities say | 22 Aug 2024 | After a manhunt Thursday, Arizona authorities arrested a man they say threatened to kill former President Trump before a planned campaign event in the Copper State. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital it took 66-year-old Ronald Lee Syvrud into custody without incident. He was arrested around 2:30 p.m. local time in Cochise County. Cochise County public information officer Carol Capas told Fox News Digital Syvrud made threatening posts on social media targeting Trump over a period of two days.
U.S. may announce new military aid package for Ukraine worth $125mln – AP | 22 Aug 2024 | Washington may make an announcement on a new package of military aid to Ukraine worth 125 million on Friday, The Associated Press news agency reported citing anonymous sources. According to the report, the package may include air defense missiles, munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), Javelin anti-tank weapons, counter-drone and counter-electronic warfare systems and equipment, as well as 155mm and 105mm artillery shells. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House John Kirby said on August 15 that Washington was planning to provide an additional military aid package to Ukraine “in coming weeks.”
Russian forces repel new Ukrainian attack in Kursk – MOD –Kiev has lost up to 400 servicemen over the past 24 hours amid its ongoing incursion, according to Moscow | 23 Aug 2024 | Russia continues to repel Kiev’s ongoing attacks on settlements in Kursk Region as Ukrainian Armed Forces suffer heavy casualties, the Defense Ministry reported in an update on Friday. In a message posted on its official Telegram channel, the ministry stated that Russian units of the North group of forces, with the support of aviation and artillery, have successfully repelled attacks by enemy assault groups near the settlements of Borki and Malaya Loknya, and have also thwarted attacks in the directions of Komarovka, Korenevo, Martynovka and Russkaya Konopelka. Kiev’s forces lost up to 70 servicemen as well as two combat armored vehicles and one car during the operation, Moscow reported.
Russia offers safe haven for people trying to escape Western liberal ideals | 19 Aug 2024 | Moscow will provide assistance to any foreigners who want to escape the neoliberal ideals being put forward in their countries and move to Russia, where traditional values reign supreme, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin. Under the document, such foreign nationals will have the right to apply for temporary residence in Russia “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and basic laws.” Applications may be based on the rejection of their countries’ policies “aimed at imposing destructive neoliberal ideals on people, which run counter to traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”
RNC lawsuit claims Detroit hired seven times more Dem poll workers than Republicans, violating state law –RNC accuses the Detroit Election Commission of a ‘completely unacceptable breach of public trust | 23 Aug 2024 | The Republican National Committee (RNC) is suing the Election Commission of the City of Detroit over allegations they violated state law by hiring more than seven times more Democratic poll workers than Republicans for the 2024 election. Michigan requires that the board of election commissioners “shall appoint an equal number, as nearly as possible, of election inspectors in each election precinct from each major political party,” according to Section 168.74 of the state’s election law. However, the city of Detroit hired about 2,300 Democratic poll workers and only about 300 Republican election inspectors for the state’s 2024 primary election, according to the Detroit Election Commission Report cited in the lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed by the RNC, Michigan GOP, and chairs of Wayne County Republican committees late Thursday, charged that the City of Detroit’s Election Commission violated state law and, moreover, has a legal duty to appoint an equal number of GOP and Democratic poll workers before the November election.
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