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Panel Urges Secret Service Shake-up After Trump Assassination Bid

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was wounded in the ear during the July assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania (Credit: AFP)

An independent panel called on Thursday for a sweeping shake-up of the US Secret Service following its "historic" failure to prevent the July assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump.

"The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static," the four members of the bipartisan review panel said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that accompanied their 52-page report.

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