Trump safe after assassination attempt

Here's what we know about the suspect in the thwarted shooting.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters  Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Donald Trump is safe following a thwarted assassination attempt in Florida, the death toll rises as more rivers in Europe burst their banks, and why Fed rate cuts matter to world markets. Plus, the best style from the Emmy Awards red carpet. Today's Top News   Law enforcement officers work outside the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, September 15, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is safe after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Here's what we know about the reported suspect. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's ruling Liberals, trailing badly in the polls, face a struggle to retain a once-safe seat in a special election where failure to win could boost calls for a new party leader. A Russian-guided bomb struck a multi-storey apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, triggering a fire and killing one person and injuring 42, officials said. More rivers in central Europe spilled their banks in flooding that has killed at least 10 people from Poland to Romania and left many towns submerged or hit by gushing, debris-filled waters after days of heavy rainfalls. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a "heavy price" on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile for the first time. Follow the latest news from the Middle East. A Hong Kong man pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person convicted under the city's new national security law passed in March. Mexico's judicial reform overhauling the country's courts, which will allow voters to elect judges, officially took effect after the text of the constitutional changes was published in the government gazette. Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said. Seven of the escaped inmates have been recaptured. Business & Markets   When the Federal Reserve delivers a widely-anticipated interest rate cut on Wednesday, its first in four years, the move will resonate well beyond the United States. Intel lost out on a contract to design and fabricate Sony's PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, which dealt a significant blow to its effort to build its fledgling contract manufacturing business, according to three sources with knowledge of the events. Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have lowered their full-year projections for China's economic growth to 4.7%, after the world's second-largest economy's industrial output slowed to a five-month low in August. Police have detained 104 striking workers protesting low wages at a Samsung plant in southern India as they were planning a march without permission, officials said. As the battle over control of Rupert Murdoch's global television and publishing empire begins in a Reno courtroom, where a judge will consider the contentious matter of succession, Dawn Chmielewski joins the Reuters World News podcast to explain what this will mean for the future of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Boeing strike: bosses bruised, blindsided and on brink of crisis   Trust between Boeing and union leadership eroded. REUTERS/David Ryder/File Photo Boeing bosses are staring down the barrel. The twists and turns of the past week paint a picture of managers badly wrong-footed by the depth of fury among workers who tossed out a 25% pay rise deal and launched strike action. Read more And Finally... Jennifer Aniston in Oscar de la Renta. REUTERS/Mike Blake Fashion from the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards, where "Shogun," claimed the prestigious best drama trophy, and "Hacks" upset defending comedy champion "The Bear" at television's highest honors. View our gallery Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters.com Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. Reuters Terms & Conditions and Privacy Statement © 2024 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036