 September 17, 2024 | ||
Good morning. We’re covering the apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump and deadly floods in Central Europe.
Plus: A literary prize shortlist, dominated by women.
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| Ronald Rowe, the acting Secret Service director. Saul Martinez for The New York Times |
Trump suspect faces two firearms counts
A man who was suspected to have been planning to shoot Donald Trump was charged with two firearm counts yesterday in Florida. Cellphone data indicated that the man, Ryan Routh, had waited near Trump’s golf course for roughly 12 hours before a Secret Service agent spotted what appeared to be the barrel of a rifle and opened fire.
Trump was a few hundred yards away, but Routh never had him in his sightline and did not fire his weapon, said Ronald Rowe, the acting Secret Service director.
Routh was convicted of a felony for “possessing a weapon of mass death and destruction” in 2002 after he barricaded himself inside a building with a fully automatic weapon. He has been a serial crusader for causes large and small dating back to at least 1996.
The fact that a gunman was able to get so close to Trump for a second time in two months raised questions about the Secret Service. President Biden told reporters that the Secret Service “needs more help” and that Congress should take action.
The suspect’s book: In a rambling self-published book titled “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War,” Routh last year called Trump a “buffoon” and other insults. In one angry passage about the dismantling of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, the author appears to suggest that Iran — or perhaps readers — were “free to assassinate Trump.”
Political violence: The shooting underscored how much American politics has been shaped by anger stirred by and against Trump.
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| Rescuing a resident of Jesenik, Czech Republic, on Sunday. Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images |
Deadly floods hit Central Europe
At least 17 people were killed and several others were missing after days of flooding in Central Europe. Thousands were displaced, and with heavy rains continuing in some places, officials feared there could be more destruction ahead.
The floodwaters have ravaged towns, destroyed bridges and breached dams since intense rainfall began last week from Storm Boris, a slow-moving, low-pressure system.
History: For some, the disaster recalled the devastating floods that struck the region in July 1997, killing more than 100 people and driving thousands from their homes.
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| The Titan, which imploded in June 2023 deep below the Atlantic Ocean. Imago/OceanGate Expeditions, via Alamy |
The Titan was riddled with problems, investigators said
The U.S. Coast Guard began two weeks of hearings yesterday on what went wrong last year during the Titan submersible’s trip to view the Titanic shipwreck. The submersible imploded, killing all five people on board.
According to testimony, the company was plagued with equipment problems in the years before the disaster and had fired an engineering director who would not approve a deepwater expedition. The Titan had also experienced dozens of problems during previous expeditions, including 70 equipment issues in 2021 and 48 more in 2022.
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Women lead the Booker Prize shortlist
The Booker Prize is one the most coveted literary awards, given each year to a novel written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. For the first time in the award’s 55-year history, five of the six nominated titles are by female authors.
The nominees include Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake,” a novel about a spy-for-hire who infiltrates an environmental activist group, and Yael van der Wouden’s “The Safekeep,” an erotically charged novel about a Dutch woman who unexpectedly falls for her brother’s girlfriend.
The judges will reread the shortlisted novels before choosing a winner, to be announced at a ceremony in London on Nov. 12. Here’s the full list.
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