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US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill the former president on Saturday, was connected to the plot, the sources said.The existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence agency — and the enhanced security for Trump — raises new questions about the security lapses at the Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how a 20-year-old man managed to access a nearby rooftop to fire shots that injured the former president.It’s not clear whether the specifics of the Iran threat were shared with the Trump campaign, which said in a statement: “We do not comment on President Trump’s security detail. All questions should be directed to The United States Secret Service.”The Secret Service recently “added protective resources and capabilities to the former President’s security detail,” agency spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement on Sunday.
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The government of French President Emmanuel Macron resigned on Tuesday in a sign of the unprecedented political gridlock that has gripped France as it prepares to host the Summer Olympics. Macron’s decision to accept the resignation of his Prime Minister Gabriel Attal—more than a week after he offered it—is mainly a tactical move. It allows cabinet members who successfully ran for seats in France’s recent snap parliamentary election to take up their roles as lawmakers in the divided National Assembly on Thursday and vote on the next speaker of the lower house. That Macron is willing to hamstring his own administration with the Olympics around the corner is a measure of how badly the president’s pro-business party has been weakened in Parliament. France is planning a spectacular opening ceremony on July 26 along the Seine River that will demand a herculean effort to organize and secure.In France, the president appoints the prime minister, who is then tasked with forming a government. But if lawmakers are unhappy with the president’s pick, they can put forward a no-confidence vote. If the motion wins the support of at least 289 lawmakers, the government is forced to resign. When Macron named 35-year-old Attal as his prime minister in January the move was seen as an anointment of the young politician as a successor when the president’s term expires. That image of ministerial competence has now been replaced by one of a government hurtling rudderless toward the Olympics.
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