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Former President Donald Trump called for unity and resilience Sunday after an attempt on his life added fresh uncertainty to an already tumultuous presidential campaign and raised sharp questions about how a gunman was able to open fire from a rooftop near a Pennsylvania campaign rally.
A full day after the shooting, the gunman’s motive was still a mystery, and investigators said they believe he acted alone. President Joe Biden ordered an independent security review of the attack, which left one bystander dead and two others critically wounded. The FBI was investigating the shooting as a potential act of domestic terrorism.
Setting aside stark political differences during a delicate stretch of the race, President Biden used a prime-time address Sunday to condemn the violence and implore Americans that “we can’t, we must not go down” the road of political violence.
Trump arrived in Milwaukee Sunday evening for the Republican National Convention that begins Monday.
Biden on Sunday ordered a security review of operations for the Republican National Convention, which is proceeding as planned. The Secret Service said they were “confident” in the security plan for the RNC, and no additional changes were planned.
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Illinois GOP leaders at RNC say Trump shooting will unite the party for November
The day after former President Donald Trump was targeted in an attempted assassination, Illinois Republicans converging on Milwaukee ahead of this week’s Republican National Convention said the alarming event will only serve to unite the GOP going into the November election.
The most serious assassination attempt on a president or presidential candidate in decades also caused some members of the Illinois delegation to recognize the polarized state of American politics. While many of the GOP delegates solely blamed Democrats, others called for a stop to the toxic war of words from members of both political parties and said the bombast needs to be toned down if there’s ever going to be any prospect for the country to see any cohesion.
The Secret Service is investigating how a gunman who shot and injured Trump was able to get so close
The gunman, who was killed by U.S. Secret Service personnel, fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue,” the agency said.
An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking.
Reagan survived an assassination attempt and his response changed the trajectory of his presidency
The would-be assassin got off six shots in 1.7 seconds, nearly taking the life of a president and changing the trajectory of a presidency.
It happened on a dreary March afternoon in 1981. President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a union group when John W. Hinckley Jr. opened fire from his .22-caliber revolver.
Protesters’ RNC marching plans a go despite hurdles
Police presence and security are being heightened for this week’s Republican National Convention following an assassination attempt Saturday on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. But thousands of protesters still plan to descend on downtown Milwaukee for Trump’s expected presidential nomination despite several legal hurdles and concerns about how accountable police will be if events get out of control.
Migrant woman sexually abused while on the search for housing highlights the vulnerability for attacks, experts say
As thousands of migrants are on the frantic search for housing, with the city steadily closing the shelters that have housed them for the past two years, experts say migrant women may be more likely to be exposed to sexual exploitation and sexual harm — especially if they are homeless and without legal support.
Some have called the South Side a birthing ‘desert.’ A nurse midwife is working to change that.
Jeanine Valrie Logan sat in traffic for nearly two hours while she was in labor with her third child.
Logan was determined to have her daughter at a birth center — a type of small facility focused on childbirth, often staffed by midwives. But there weren’t any birth centers near her home in the south suburbs, so she traveled nearly 30 miles to Berwyn.
Heat waves are hotter and cooling costs are rising in cities such as Chicago, studies show
Access to air conditioning, especially in large cities, is becoming a critical part of combating extreme heat made more intense and more frequent in the summer months by climate change from human activities.
Rising temperatures are causing electricity bills to surge nationwide, and they pose a particular problem for urban areas.
Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, not yet signed, hosts hundreds at foundation event including Mayor Brandon Johnson
Before Caleb Williams was scheduled to report to training camp Tuesday with the other Chicago Bears rookies, the quarterback was throwing passes to high school students in Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood on Saturday.
More than 700 people representing 12 Chicago schools packed the Dr. Conrad Worrill Track and Field Center at Gately Park to greet Williams in the first Chicago event for his Caleb Cares Foundation.
New monument for Chicago White Sox great Minnie Miñoso unveiled at Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery
A monument for White Sox great Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso, who passed away on March 1, 2015, was unveiled at Chicago’s historic Graceland Cemetery during a private dedication Sunday.
Known as “Mr. White Sox,” the Cuban-born pioneer broke barriers as the first Afro-Latino major leaguer and the first Black player for the White Sox. Miñoso’s historic career earned him 13 All-Star selections, three Gold Glove Awards and a Negro Leagues World Series Championship with the New York Cubans.
Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ star, dies at 53
Shannen Doherty, the “Beverly Hills, 90210” star whose life and career were roiled by illness and tabloid stories, has died at 53.
After years with breast cancer, Doherty died Saturday, according to a statement from her publicist, Leslie Sloane.
At 2024’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, Kara Jackson plays Saturday, Alanis Morissette headlines Sunday and Jai Paul is a don’t-miss act on the Friday opening day. (Tribune/Getty)
Pitchfork Music Festival 2024: Our picks for the must-see bands, plus what else to know
From hip-hop icons like Grandmaster Flash to Gen X and millennial nostalgia acts like Alanis Morissette, and local newbies including Akenya, Lifeguard and Kara Jackson, this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival is a collection of riches.
Stiltwalkers, a high-diving mule and other efforts to make State Street great again
By the early 1970s the reality was that fewer people were doing anything on State Street. Chicago’s business and civic leaders decided the once thriving retail strip desperately needed resuscitation. They created “People Week,” a series of special events along State Street and in the many department stores that still lined it.
