Tuesday briefing: How another apparent attempt on Donald Trump’s life changes the election campaign

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In today’s newsletter: What we know after law enforcement apprehended an armed intruder at a golf course near the former president’s home on Sunday• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.On Sunday, former US president Donald Trump was rushed to safety after Secret Service agents noticed a gunman hiding just a few hundred metres away from him in the bushes of the Trump international golf course in Florida, close to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort home. The suspect, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, fled the scene after agents opened fire on him. He was later apprehended by local authorities and charged with two gun-related crimes.Labour | Keir Starmer has suggested he will continue to accept gifts from the Labour peer Lord Alli, as he rejected accusations that he had not followed parliamentary rules relating to gifts of clothes to his wifeEmployment | Insecure work can often be a trap, rather than a stepping stone to a better life, according to new research that tracked the employment of 10,000 people across four years.UK news | The former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence, completing an extraordinary fall from grace after admitting accessing indecent photographs of children as young as seven.Europe | The death toll from torrential rain and flooding in central and eastern Europe has risen to at least 16, with several more people missing, as authorities reported deaths in the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria and warned the worst may yet be to come.Health | Tackling Britain’s growing ill-health crisis holds the key to increasing growth and the government needs to invest £15bn a year on a radical programme of reforms designed to improve wellbeing and national prosperity, a left-of-centre thinktank has said. Continue reading…

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/first-edition-donald-trump-golf-club

Author : Nimo Omer

Publish date : 2024-09-17 07:50:55

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