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Donald Trump has revoked Secret Service protection for the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, according to a letter obtained by CNN and confirmed to the Guardian by a senior White House official. The letter, dated on Thursday and titled “Memorandum for the Secretary of Homeland Security”, instructs the Secret Service to “discontinue any security-related procedures beyond those required by law” effective 1 September 2025. Under federal law, former vice-presidents are entitled to receive Secret Service protection for six months after leaving office. For Harris, that period ended on 21 July. However, CNN reports that her protection had been extended for an additional year under an undisclosed directive signed by then president Joe Biden before leaving office. Trump’s new directive cancels that extension. “You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” the letter reads. The Secret Service did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/kamala-harris-secret-service-trump-biden

Denmark's foreign minister had the top U.S. diplomat in the country summoned for talks after the main national public broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. On Wednesday, Danish public broadcaster DR reported that government and security sources, which it didn't name, as well as unidentified sources in Greenland and the U.S., believe that at least three Americans with connections to Mr. Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in the territory. It said its story was based on information from a total of eight sources, who believe the goal is to weaken relations with Denmark from within Greenlandic society. DR said it had been unable to clarify whether the Americans were working at their own initiative or on orders from someone else. The network said it sources believed one of the Americans has been compiling lists of Greenlandic citizens for and against Mr. Trump's overtures, in a bid to build a list of citizens on the island who could potentially be recruited for a Greenlandic secession movement. The other Americans, according to DR, "have tried to cultivate contacts with politicians, businesspeople and citizens, and the sources' concern is that these contacts could secretly be used to support Donald Trump's desire to take over Greenland." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/denmark-us-greenland-trump-covert-influence-operations-report/

I have a couple books going at the moment. Breakfast reading: "A History of the Arab People" by Albert Hourani, (c) 1991 Other reading: "The Darkening Age, The Christian Destruction of the Classical World" by Catherine Nixey, (c) 2017