Day: July 15, 2024

American Culture Quiz: Test yourself on a summer breeze, a summer Olympian and a tough man for all seasons

2:45 pm July 15, 2024

The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people, including current news and the sights and sounds of the United States. This week’s quiz is headlined by a summer breeze, a summer Olympian and an American tough man for all seasons. It also includes questions about the […]

Hero Trump rally victim Corey Comperatore died shielding family and ‘would’ve done it again,’ friend says

2:28 pm July 15, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: The volunteer firefighter who died shielding his family from a sniper’s bullets intended for former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania is being remembered as a selfless “girl dad” and churchgoing family man who put others before himself on a regular basis. Corey Comperatore, 50, died Saturday night while shielding […]

Trump supporters at Pennsylvania rally take cover from gunfire that ‘shocked’ locals

1:30 pm July 15, 2024

Some Trump rally attendees in Butler, Pennsylvania, had been waiting around the Butler Farm Show grounds since 8 a.m. Saturday so they’d get a good view of the former president when the event began later that day. Trump had traveled to the close-knit, rural town north of Pittsburgh four years ago, in October 2020, ahead […]

Republican convention gets underway two days after Trump survived an assassination attempt

1:30 pm July 15, 2024

MILWAUKEE, WI – The Republican National Convention kicks off on Monday, just two days after former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s standard-bearer, survived an assassination attempt. And the Saturday shooting at Trump’s rally in western Pennsylvania – where one spectator was killed and two more critically injured, and the former president visibly bloodied after a […]

Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ criminal trial was a ‘comedy of errors,’ legal expert says

1:30 pm July 15, 2024

Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in the fatal shooting of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins took a shocking turn Friday when Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case. Jurors were recessed for the weekend before a special hearing began after the lunch hour, where not only did special prosecutor Kari Morrissey voluntarily take the stand as […]