5 d. ago Diddy trial stunned as witness reveals Mike Myers' secret ties to CIA and Secret Service: Live court updates

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial for sex-trafficking and racketeering is on its fourth week in New York City federal court.

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6 d. ago Joe Biden 'got lost in his own closet at the White House while staff hid mental decline'

Former President Joe Biden got lost in his own closet at the White House, according to a Secret Service whistleblower. The claim comes as Biden faces scrutiny over his declining mental state.

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1 week ago Secret Service agents suspended after brawl outside of Obama’s home in DC

One agent from the former president’s security detail allegedly asked for a supervisor to come down ‘immediately before I whoop this girl’s a**’

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1 week ago Two of Barack Obama's Secret Service agents in brawl outside his £6m mansion

Two female Secret Service agents are believed to have got into an altercation outside Barack Obama's mansion in Washington DC, and have since been suspended from duty

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1 week ago Prince Harry turned to MI6 therapists to help with his mental health, royal insider claims

According to royal biographer Tina Brown, Harry was convinced to sought help from a doctor from the secret service by his then-girlfriend Cressida Bonas.

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2 w. ago Federal judge orders pretrial detention for man accused of stealing Kristi Noem's purse

A federal magistrate judge has ordered the pretrial detention of a man charged with stealing a purse from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she dined at a restaurant under the protection of Secret Service agents

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2 w. ago Former FBI director James Comey calls controversy over Instagram post "a bit of a distraction"

Former FBI director James Comey says that he’s still a bit bewildered over how a seemingly innocent Instagram shot of shells arranged in the sand led to allegations from Donald Trump among others that he was calling for the president’s assassination and to an interview with the Secret Service."

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3 w. ago Trump accuses former FBI director of calling for his killing through coded picture

James Comey posted picture of shells arranged to say ‘8647’, using common slang for kicking a customer out of a barJames Comey is accused of calling for Trump’s death – but what does ‘86’ really mean?Donald Trump accused the former FBI director James Comey on Friday of calling for his assassination in a coded social media post written in seashells.Comey’s Instagram post – a photograph of seashells on a beach arranged to spell the numbers 8647, which he captioned “Cool shell formation on my beach walk” – was used by rightwing supporters of Trump to claim that it was a call to assassinate the US president. The Secret Service said it has launched an investigation. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump claims ‘8647’ photo from former FBI director James Comey was call to assassinate him – US politics live

US president claims ‘a child would know’ what that slogan means as US Secret Service investigates now-deleted photo of seashells posted on InstagramAlso on Iran, AFP reports that Trump said earlier that Tehran should make a quick decision on an American proposal for a nuclear deal or “something bad will happen”.Speaking in Abu Dhabi as he finished his Gulf tour, Trump said his administration had handed Iran a proposal for a agreement, adding that “they know they have to move quickly or something bad is going to happen”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago What does 8647 mean? The ‘code’ that landed James Comey in hot water with the Secret Service

‘We are aware of the recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump,’

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3 w. ago Secret Service probe former FBI boss James Comey over post allegedly aimed at Trump

Former FBI director James Comey is being investigated by the Secret Service after he shared then deleted a social media post, which Republicans alleged was an incitement to violence against President Donald Trump

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3 w. ago James Comey investigated over seashell photo claimed to be ‘threat’ against Trump

Ex-FBI director deletes Instagram post of shells in ‘8647’ formation that Republicans claim is code for assassinationA photo of seashells posted on Instagram by the former FBI director James Comey is now being investigated by the US Secret Service, after the US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said it constituted a “threat” against Donald Trump.On Thursday, Comey posted a photo of seashells forming the message “8647”, with a caption that read: “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago What Trump’s ‘palace in the sky’ gift from Qatar reveals | Moira Donegan

This kind of behavior from the Trump administration has gone on for so long that it is hard to rouse the media to cover itIt certainly looks as if policy is for sale in the Trump administration. After all, the president’s primary domestic policy deputy, Elon Musk, gained his position in the administration more or less by purchasing it: he is the richest man in the world, and the primary funder of Trump’s last presidential campaign, and it is seemingly by this virtue – does he have any others? – that Musk has been granted the authority to dismantle large swaths of the federal bureaucracy.This is something of a pattern for Donald Trump. In his first term, it became de rigueur for foreign dignitaries to stay at Trump’s hotel on trips to Washington, a practice long perceived to be a way of currying favor with the president by spending money at his businesses. Trump funneled money to his hotel business from domestic sources, too: when Secret Service agents were required to stay at Trump’...

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