The 2024 Republican National Convention set to begin on heels of assassination attempt. Here's what to know.

Former President Donald Trump will officially become the GOP nominee for president at this week's Republican National Convention, days after surviving an assassination attempt.

The four-day event kicks off on Monday, just two days after a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, grazing Trump's ear. Rally attendee Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed, and two others, identified as 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver, were wounded. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.

The attack has put federal, state and local law enforcement officials on even higher alert heading into the convention. Changes to the security measures were being...