The Daily Populous

Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing at his resort in Florida on Sunday.

No one was hurt, but Trump has since blamed Democrat rhetoric for the second attempt on his life in just two months.

She suggested that the attempted assassination stemmed from the GOP’s rhetoric and the availability of assault rifles in the country. »

Microsoft said Tuesday that Russian operatives have in recent weeks intensified their online attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign by producing and disseminating videos promoting “outlandish conspiracy theories” aimed at stoking US racial and political divisions.

Russian operatives promoted the latter story through a website pretending to be a local San Francisco media outlet, Microsoft researchers said.

CNN has requested comment on the Microsoft report from the Harris-Walz campaign and from the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC. »

The latest packages were sent to elections officials in Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York and Rhode Island.

The FBI is collecting the packages, some of which contained “an unknown substance,” agency spokesperson Kristen Setera in Boston said in a statement.

It’s the second time in the past year that suspicious packages were mailed to election officials in multiple states. »

A Hezbollah official told The Associated Press the pagers were a new brand, but declined to say how long they had been in use.

The pager bombings are likely to stoke Hezbollah's worries about vulnerabilities in security and communications as Israeli officials are threaten to escalate their monthslong conflict.

This story has been updated to correct the name of the Hezbollah lawmaker’s son killed by a pager blast. »