Your Morning: Trump shooting: Unrelated Iran plot prompted security enhancement

Security enhanced: The Secret Service ramped up security around former President Donald Trump before Saturday’s assassination attempt at a campaign rally after learning of an Iranian plot to assassinate the presumptive GOP nominee, a national security official told NewsNation. The U.S. National Security Council (NSC) has been tracking Iranian threats against Trump for years, but threats have increased in the past few months, a former federal law enforcement official said. An NSC spokesperson confirmed the Trump rally shooting does not appear to have ties to ongoing Iranian threats. What to know > 

Rivals pull together for Trump: Trump’s 2024 GOP rivals were welcomed back into the fold Tuesday with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy making speeches in support of the former president. Added to the RNC speaking schedule at the last minute, Haley told the RNC: “I’ll start by making one thing clear: Donald Trump has my strong support, period.” In DeSantis’ cutting speech, the Florida governor attacked the Biden administration, calling it a “Weekend at Bernie’s presidency.” Ramaswamy rallied RNC attendees and insisted Trump will “revive” American “ideals.” Full recap > 

Vance’s ‘violent’ marriages comments: Comments Sen. JD Vance made in 2021 about “violent” marriages circulated online after Trump announced he chose the Ohio Republican as his running mate in the 2024 election. “This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, ‘well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy, and so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term,’” Vance said, according to a 2022 Vice article. Shannon Watts, founder of the organization Moms Demand, criticized his comments on X this week. “JD Vance said women are obligated to stay in ‘violent’ marriages,” Watts wrote. “Each month, 70 women are fatally shot by intimate partners in the US, and 1 million women alive today have been shot or shot at by intimate partners.” What to know >

Man shot near RNC: Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention fatally shot a man who was wielding two knives less than a mile away from the convention, Milwaukee’s police chief said Tuesday. Authorities say the man refused police commands and charged at an unarmed man before five members of the Columbus, Ohio, police department fired. A local street pastor, Robert Camacho, who knew the man, told NewsNation the deceased was homeless and was displaced by the convention cleanup. Read more >

Supreme Court reform: President Joe Biden will propose Supreme Court reforms in the coming week that would include term limits for justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to reports. The president is also weighing whether to ask for a constitutional amendment to eliminate presidential immunity. Read more >

Stolen content: Tech giants Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia and Salesforce pilfered data from tens of thousands of content creators on YouTube to train AI. An investigation by Proof News, co-published with Wired, found that the Silicon Valley luminaries fed subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos across more than 48,000 channels to AI programs. The “YouTube Subtitles” dataset was allegedly ripped from the platform and its users without permission, an act that violates YouTube’s guidelines. What to know >

New lawsuit: The family of Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson filed a new lawsuit against Kaitlin Armstrong, alleging Armstrong’s family and her ex-boyfriend made “fraudulent transfers” to avoid paying out the Wilson family. Armstrong was found guilty and convicted of first-degree murder in November 2023 and sentenced to 90 years in prison for the murder of Wilson. A judge ordered Armstrong to pay the Wilson family $15 million as part of a wrongful death suit. Details >

Noah Presgrove death: Investigators are expressing some of the questions they have over the death of Noah Presgrove, a 19-year-old who was found last year on an Oklahoma highway. Jefferson County Sheriff Jeremie Wilson, the second person at the scene where Presgrove’s body was discovered, said in an interview with People magazine published Monday that he does not believe Presgrove died in a “hit-and-run.” A medical examiner’s report obtained by NewsNation local affiliate KFOR showed that Presgrove died from “multiple blunt force injuries” and labeled his manner of death as “undetermined.” No car parts or debris were found on the scene, the medical report stated. The latest >

National anthem: After a widely criticized performance of the U.S. national anthem at the MLB Home Run Derby, country singer Ingrid Andress apologized Tuesday and said she was drunk. “I’m checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “That was not me last night. I apologize to MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition.” The MLB is not commenting, spokesperson Matt Bourne told The Associated Press. What to know about Ingrid Andress >