James “Jim” Copenhaver, a Pennsylvania man who survived being shot at President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler two years ago, has died, sources confirmed.

Copenhaver, 76, died in a hospital on Wednesday. He had survived the July 13, 2024, attack in which Trump was struck in the ear by a gunman’s bullet.

The shooting left Copenhaver with permanent, life-altering injuries. He was hit twice—once in the left arm and again in the abdomen.

A native of Moon Township, about 20 minutes from Pittsburgh, Copenhaver was initially in critical condition at Allegheny General Hospital. He later described being left with numbness from his knee to his hip.

Joseph Feldman, an attorney for the family, told Fox News at the time that Copenhaver was “a tough guy” for surviving the devastating injuries.

Ken Silva of Headline USA was the first to report Copenhaver’s death, citing people close to the family. Copenhaver had written the foreword to Silva’s book, The Trump Assassination Plots: What Investigations Missed and Why it Matters.

Silva said he had few details about the sudden death, but noted that Copenhaver had been living with lasting injuries from the Butler shooting, including bullet fragments that remained in his body.

In the foreword, which Silva shared on social media, Copenhaver wrote: “I’ve lived a good life, but most of it has been what I’d described as ‘uneventful’ in a grand historical sense.”

House Republicans said they were “deeply saddened” by Copenhaver’s death after he was “gravely wounded” in the Butler shooting.

“Jim endured unimaginable hardship with strength and perseverance. We join his family and loved ones in mourning his loss and praying for them during this difficult time. May he rest in peace,” the agency said.

In his foreword, Copenhaver reflected on raising his family, working for more than 30 years and performing in a band. He also considered how he would ultimately be remembered.

“Well, I got my answer… though taking a bullet meant for the President wasn’t exactly what I had in mind,” he wrote.

Copenhaver described the events leading up to the moment “when I almost met my maker,” explaining that a friend had obtained their tickets to the rally.

After navigating the parking area and security checkpoints, the pair went to claim their seats. A staff member then told them they did not have the correct wristbands to sit directly in front of the podium.

“I asked if we could move to the bleachers; he said yes,” Copenhaver recalled. “Our move turned out to be nearly fatal.”

He also recalled that David Dutch, another survivor of the shooting whom he did not know, was seated just two places away from him.

“We felt pretty good about where we were seated,” Copenhaver wrote.

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‘I started taking pictures and filming about 6.03pm, unknowingly capturing the shooter on the roof of the AGR building at around 6.08pm.’

Copenhaver wrote that, as Trump’s speech ‘ramped up,’ he put his phone away before ‘seemingly out of nowhere’ he was shot in his left triceps. 

‘I turned to Randy and said, “I think I have been shot,” when I was then hit a second time in my left abdomen,’ he wrote. 

Copenhaver said he remembered little else from that day, but his long road to recovery stood before him. 

‘I only just started physical therapy in the summer of 2025, and while I’ve been making progress, it hasn’t been easy,’ he wrote. 

‘With a bullet lodged next to my spine, I’m going to have a diminished usage of my left leg for the rest of my life. It’s numb from just beneath the kneecap to the hip area. It just doesn’t feel like my leg.

‘I guess that’s the price of making history.’

Copenhaver sued the US Government in June after he was forced to undergo a series of surgeries, including the closure of a traumatic abdominal wall hernia, laparotomy, laceration repair and transection of his colon, Silva reported. 

Upon his death, he continued to have fragments of the bullets in his body, according to Silva. 

Copenhaver’s wife, Marianne, will continue on with the suit, along with Dutch and his wife, seeking damages over the Secret Service’s alleged security failures. 

According to Politico, the Senate Homeland Security and the House’s bipartisan task force found significant failures in the Secret Service’s plan to secure the rally as well as their response to the shooting. 

Thomas Matthew Crooks was named as the attempted assassin.

On the anniversary of the incident, Trump said that the Secret Service ‘had a bad day’ and ‘made a mistake.’

He pointed to a lack of communication with local police as well as the failure to appoint an agent on the roof that Crooks fired from, Politico reported.

The Daily Mail reached out to Copenhaver’s family, who said they weren’t taking calls at this time, the White House and the Alleghany County Medical Examiner’s Office for comment. 

Kyle Juszczyk’s signature chugging celebration has become a familiar sight for San Francisco 49ers fans.

Whenever Juszczyk touches the ball at Levi’s Stadium, the crowd often erupts with “Juiiiicceee” chants. After the NFL fined him $14,926 for the longtime celebration, the veteran fullback responded — and brought evidence to support his case.

Juszczyk turned to Instagram to show that he has performed the celebration for years. In the gesture, he pretends to drink juice rather than beer, a nod to his nickname.

In an Instagram Story, Juszczyk highlighted a post from Sept. 2, 2021, featuring him in the same stance and pose that resulted in his fine during Sunday’s game against the Dolphins.

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Juszczyk’s message was unmistakable.

The 35-year-old made clear that the celebration has been part of his routine for much of his 15-season NFL career. Sunday’s penalty, however, was the first time he had been fined for it.

“Your imitation of chugging a beer constituted an offensive demonstration and could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste,” the NFL wrote in its fine letter.

The decision carries an added irony, given the NFL’s commercial ties to major beer brands, including Bud Light, the league’s official sponsor.

An Ohio man was arrested after allegedly hiding in the ceiling above a college women’s soccer locker room and photographing players as they changed, according to local reports.

Jayson Barker of Jeffersonville is facing nearly a dozen voyeurism charges after he was reportedly found inside the ceiling at Wilmington College’s women’s locker room, WLWT-TV reported.

Wilmington police officers were called to the Scheve Athletic Center shortly before 9:40 p.m. local time Tuesday after receiving reports that someone was taking pictures of team members while they changed clothes.

By the time officers arrived, Wilmington College Campus Safety personnel had already detained Barker.

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Investigators said Barker worked at the college as a contract custodial employee. He allegedly concealed himself in the locker room’s ceiling area and was discovered by a member of the soccer team.

“The college’s paramount concern is the safety and well-being of its students,” the institution said in a statement to the news outlet. “We have been providing counseling and other support services for the affected students since Tuesday night and are taking measures to ensure that no student’s safety or well-being is compromised. Also, the college continues to assist with law enforcement’s investigation.”

Barker remains held at the Clinton County Jail on a $22,000 cash surety bond. He faces 11 voyeurism counts and is scheduled to appear in court again on Oct. 5.

News Media has contacted Wilmington College, the Wilmington Police Department and the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office seeking additional comment.

The parent company of The New York Times is facing a shareholder lawsuit alleging that the newspaper’s coverage of the Gaza war reflects an anti-Israel bias.

The complaint filed Wednesday centers in large part on the account of an unnamed Times employee who allegedly flagged possible violations of the paper’s editorial standards at least 15 times since 2019.

According to the lawsuit, the staffer reported concerns involving alleged antisemitism and what the employee viewed as anti-Israel bias to several departments within the company.

The employee’s concerns were repeatedly dismissed, the petition alleges.

In one alleged exchange, an HR representative reportedly said: ‘If you don’t like our values here, maybe you should go find a place whose values align with yours,’ according to the filing.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed the case in New York state court on behalf of the shareholders. The investors are seeking access to internal company records as they investigate whether The New York Times failed to uphold its own journalistic standards.

“When you’re a news agency, your credibility is everything,” Uthmeier said Wednesday during a news conference announcing the records request.

A Times spokesperson rejected the allegations, describing the lawsuit in a statement to the Daily Mail on Thursday as an attempt to pressure the newspaper into taking a more favorable approach to its Israel coverage.

“This lawsuit has no merit and was brought for an improper purpose.

“Although it is presented as a corporate governance petition seeking to inspect the company’s books and records, it is plainly an effort to apply agenda-driven pressure to an independent media organization, promote unfounded claims of bias and discourage journalism protected by the First Amendment.

“We will defend against the suit vigorously,” the spokesperson said.

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The State Board of Administration of Florida is among the petitioners. The agency manages the Florida Retirement System Trust Fund, which owns more than 160,000 shares of Times stock.

The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, is the other petitioner.

Both organizations argue that their status as shareholders gives them the right to examine the Times’ corporate records.

The filing also cites a peer-reviewed study published in 2024. That research found that The New York Times acknowledged 72 errors in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war between October 2023 and June 2024.

The lawsuit notes that 48 of those acknowledged errors concerned Israel.

The Times also acknowledged that the errors were identified by external critics rather than through the company’s own internal review process.

‘Corrections were late, vague and sometimes evasive,’ the suit claimed. 

As it stands, the Times board lacks a sufficient mechanism for addressing internal complaints about standards, according to the petition.  

‘The Company’s repeated publication of materially false or baseless factual assertions… supports a reasonable inference that the Board has not only failed in its obligation to monitor the Company’s internal controls, but [that]… in the absence of any Board-level oversight, journalistic standards have been weaponized within the Company to serve the personal agendas of unchecked editors,’ one portion read. 

‘That inference is strengthened by what Petitioners’ investigation did not find: any Board-level committee, independent oversight function, or other objective third party charged with assessing whether the Company effectively enforces and complies with its own editorial standards. 

‘Put plainly, although the Company adopted certain internal journalistic controls (including controls against biased reporting and misreporting), Petitioners found no indication that the Board established any mechanism for information about compliance with those controls to reach the Board.

‘Making matters worse, numerous instances of gross violations of those controls were brought to the attention of Board members who double as Company executives, yet the Board seemingly refused to take any corrective or protective action.’

A New Jersey public school allegedly required students to keep an image of Democratic Rep. Analilia Mejia on their school-issued computers as part of Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations, just two months before Election Day, according to an angry parent.

The desktop background was reportedly installed across the Glen Ridge Public School system. One parent said a Spanish teacher warned that their child could be sent to the principal if the image was changed.

“I was outraged,” the parent, who requested anonymity over concerns about retaliation, told The Post. “We’re in the school system because we’re in the number one public school system in the state. We’re here for the education. I’m not here for political propaganda.”

“Marketing to a 13-year-old and a nine-year-old is disgusting,” the parent added.

Before being selected as Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s chosen successor for the U.S. House seat Sherrill previously held earlier this year, Mejia was a local labor leader and nonprofit director.

The wallpaper included biographical details about Mejia’s career, including legislation she introduced that would have raised the minimum wage to $25 an hour — a proposal that went nowhere.

The parent said students appeared unable to change the desktop image on their district-issued Chromebooks, even if they wanted to.

Mejia’s image began appearing on the students’ laptops Tuesday before being replaced Wednesday with a picture of “Guardians of the Galaxy” actress Zoe Saldana.

“I’m sure it’s because the parents went nuts,” the parent said of the change.

Mejia represents New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District, which includes several suburbs surrounding Newark, including Maplewood, Montclair and Belleville.

According to census data, approximately 17.5% of the district’s population is Hispanic.

Mejia is favored to defeat Republican Joe Hathaway in the Nov. 3 race, according to the Cook Political Report, which classifies the district as a “solid” Democratic seat.

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“While neither my team nor I were involved in the decision, I’m honored to be among the Latino leaders recognized during Hispanic Heritage Month,” Mejia told The Post in response to the use of her image as the Chromebook wallpaper.

“Latinos are integral to New Jersey’s culture, history, and strength, and I commend the school district for striving to represent the full diversity of our community to its diverse student body,” she added. “Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!”

The controversy over the Glen Ridge students’ Chromebooks was first publicized by the Libs of TikTok account on X.

The Post reached out to the Glen Ridge Public School system for comment.

“This photo looks like something ripped out of North Korean propaganda, with Mejia standing watch as some kind of ‘Dear Leader.’ It’s absolutely ridiculous,” Hathaway, Mejia’s opponent, told The Post.

“Imagine the outrage you’d hear from teachers and left-wing progressives if every student in Glen Ridge opened their school computer and saw a locked image of our president staring back at them,” he added. “Socialist messaging has no place being forced on our kids.”

“We need to get back to basics of reading, writing, math, and science, for our children to succeed.”

The parent raised a similar concern and questioned why the district doesn’t splash an image of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the highest-ranking Hispanic American in US history, on their desktops.

“They clearly understood that this was not the right thing to do,” he added.