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Convicted felon and ex-President Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt on July 13 at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to seize the Republican nomination for a third time in Milwaukee. Gunfire triggered panic in the crowd. A bloodied Trump, who said he was shot in the ear, was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried to his SUV. Trump’s campaign said the presumptive GOP nominee was doing “fine” after the shooting, which he said pierced the upper part of his right ear. “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a...

Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned in May as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water. About 70% of utilities inspected by federal officials over the last year violated standards meant to prevent cyberthreats, the agency said. Officials urged even small water systems to improve protections against cyberattacks, noting that recent assaults from adversarial nation states like Russia and Iran have impacted water systems of all sizes. Some water systems are falling short in basic...