US Secret Service agents have killed an armed man who breached the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago. Donald Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, were not at the club and residence at the time.
The authorities said agents confronted a white male in his early 20s carrying shotgun and gasoline can early on Sunday.
“He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with him, at which time he put down the gas can [and] raised the shotgun to a shooting position,” the sheriff said. “At that point in time, the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralized the threat. He is deceased at the scene.”
Here are today’s main stories:
Secret Service fatally shoot armed man who breached Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence
The US Secret Service shot and killed an armed intruder who breached the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida residence and private club in Palm Beach, early on Sunday.
Although the US president often spends weekends at the oceanfront resort, he was at the White House in Washington DC during this incident, as was the first lady, Melania Trump.
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Washington and Tehran to hold more nuclear talks as protests reignite in Iran
Iran and the US are expected to meet for a further round of talks in Geneva this week in a sign that Donald Trump’s team believes Tehran is making serious proposals to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and show it is not seeking a nuclear weapon.
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Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal
A Guardian analysis of government records has found that the vast majority – 77% – of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal conviction, exposing a stark gap between the Trump administration’s rhetoric and reality.
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Trump warns Netflix of ‘consequences’ unless it pulls top Democrat from board
Donald Trump has told Netflix to remove the Democratic foreign policy expert Susan Rice from its board or “face the consequences”, while the streaming platform is locked in an extraordinary corporate battle to take control of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).
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Huckabee’s Israel land remarks condemned as ‘dangerous and inflammatory’
Governments from across the Islamic world have condemned remarks by the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, suggesting it would “be fine” for Israel to claim a broad swathe of the Middle East. In an interview with the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that was published last week, the ambassador pointed to verses in the Bible that some Jews and evangelical Christians interpret as signifying the divine right of Jews to claim the land from the Nile to the Euphrates.
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What else happened today:
Blizzard conditions were forecast to bring major disruption across the north-eastern US well into Monday, with a dangerous combination of heavy, wet snow and ferocious winds of up to 70mph.
The Department of Homeland Security partially reversed course Sunday morning on an order that had suspended the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs as a result of staffing shortages caused by the partial government shutdown.
Greenland has said it does not need medical assistance from other countries after Donald Trump said he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory he wants to acquire.
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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
