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Just two months after an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in July during a rally in Pennsylvania, another apparent attempt on the Republican presidential nominee’s life was foiled by authorities on Sunday at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump was unharmed, and a suspect who fled the scene was arrested.

On September 15, 1963, on a Sunday morning, four young black girls were killed in the bombing at the Birmingham church in Alabama Their names were fourteen year-old Addie Mae Collins, fourteen year-old Cynthia Wesley, fourteen year-old Carole Robertson and eleven year-old Carol Denise McNair. Martin Luther King Jr., held meetings at The 16th Street Baptist Church and it was third bombing that took place after integration was ordered in Alabama.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz and Fox Business host Liz Claman said Republican candidates Donald Trump and J. D. Vance created a "huge problem" after false claims about Haitians eating pets led to bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. On Sunday, Kurtz noted that the claims of pets being eaten had been debunked. "But now, and now we switch to geese, but there was one guy, a Haitian, who's not a Haitian, excuse me, who was helping two injured geese, and that was portrayed," the host told Claman.

The Escambia County School Board in Florida is learning the hard way that bigotry - and stupidity - is very costly. The Escambia County School Board has paid a law firm at least $107,000 to defend its removal of "And Tango Makes Three" after a federal lawsuit was filed by its authors, according to documentation obtained by the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida through public records requests. And that doesn't take into account the flurry of legal activity over the summer; the last expensed services in the documentation were from June. Regardless, that amount makes up only a minority of the legal fees the board has paid out for recent book banning-related lawsuits. It’s paid at least $255,000 in legal fees to defend itself against another federal lawsuit.

Rep. Brian Steil (R-WI) argued Sunday that passing a bill making it harder to vote was Republicans' "opportunity to win" the election. In an interview on Fox News, Steil said he wanted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to combine the so-called SAVE Act with a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government.

Donald Trump was the target of what the FBI said “appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. The former president said he was safe and well, and authorities held a man in custody. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] U.