Photos: Seattle Mariners 10, Chicago White Sox 0
Photos from the Chicago White Sox’s 10-0 loss to the Seattle Mariners on July 26, 2024, at Guaranteed Rate Field. It was the 12th consecutive defeat for the Sox, who fell to 27-78.
A bullet — or bullet fragment — hit Trump during assassination attempt, FBI says
“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the
‘Veep’ creator says political reality ‘madder’ than show and ‘deadly serious’
The creator of the popular HBO political comedy series “Veep” said the current political reality is “madder” than that portrayed in the comedy series in an opinion piece published Friday in The New York Times.
“What’s going on? The stuff happening out there right now is madder than ‘Veep’ and deadly serious,” Armando Iannucci said in his Times piece.
He added, “These are real events, not melodramatic fictions, and they have a real impact on our lives. Depending on who wins, either we’ll continue our attempts to halt global warming, or we’ll sit back and melt in our sleep.”
“Veep” has gained extra attention in the wake of President Biden stepping out of the 2024 presidential race and Vice President Harris becoming the likely Democratic nominee, with some seeing parallels between the show’s storyline and current events.
“The show stars the unbeatable Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Vice President Selina Meyer,” Iannucci said in his Times piece. “As the series progresses, Selina is suddenly thrown onto the main stage when the president decides not to run for a second term, leaving her to go into the convention as the new presumptive nominee. For 24 hours, the mainstream media asked if I was pleased with the comparison.”
“This is the first time I’m setting out a definitive answer to that question, and the answer is: No, I’m not. I’m extremely worried! Not about Ms. Harris. I’m sure she’ll inject much-needed sharpness into the campaign,” he continued. “What worries me is that politics has become so much like entertainment that the first thing we do to make sense of the moment is to test it against a sitcom.”
A producer of “Veep,” David Mandel , said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday that the most similar candidate in this year’s presidential race to Louis-Dreyfus’ character in the series is Trump, not Harris.
“The Selina-est candidate is Donald Trump,” Mandel said in the interview.
“Vain, worried about his looks, has a ridiculously better relationship with his body people than his own children, petty, vindictive, worries about his own money, doesn’t believe what he says, says whatever to get elected,” Mandel continued.
Passenger missing after boat capsizes near 31st Street Beach: officials
Chicago police searched for a missing boater Friday night after a vessel carrying more than a dozen passengers capsized just off 31st Street Beach.
The boat flipped near the 3100 block of DuSable Lake Shore Drive around 7:30 p.m., according to police. According to Chicago Fire officials, 12 people rescued refused first aid, while three were taken to University of Chicago Hospital.
As of 9 p.m., police said the marine unit’s search remained active and Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Langford said around 9:15 that the person remained missing.
Trump says he removed ‘last bandage’ from ear following assassination attempt
Former President Trump said Friday he removed “the last bandage off of my ear” in the wake of a recent assassination attempt against him in which one of his ears was injured.
“As I think you can see, I’ve recovered well and, in fact, just took off the last bandage off of my ear,” Trump said at an event by the conservative Christian organization Turning Point Action in Florida.
Trump faced an assassination attempt earlier this month in which he said that he was hit by a bullet in one of his ears. He could be seen sporting a bandage on one of his ears at the recent Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee and subsequent events.
“I took it off for this group,” Trump said at Friday’s event. “I don’t know why I did that for this group, but, that’s it. I think that’s it, I hope that’s it.”
The former president insisted Thursday that it was a bullet that struck one of his ears following FBI Director Christopher Wray saying when testifying in front of Congress Wednesday that “there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, hit his ear.”
“No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “The hospital called it a ‘bullet wound to the ear,’ and that is what it was. No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!”
Rep. Ronny Jackson (D-Texas), a former White House physician who has said he treated the president’s ear, disputed Wray’s questioning of what hit Trump’s ear.
“During the Congressional Hearing two days ago, FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that it could be a bullet, shrapnel, or glass,” Jackson said in a letter posted Friday to Truth Social.
“There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet. Congress should correct the record as confirmed by both the hospital and myself. Director Wray is wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else,” he added.