Feds foil Iran-linked assassination plot said to target Trump

Federal law enforcement officials have charged a Pakistani national who allegedly plotted to assassinate a top U.S. politician or official, said to be former President Donald Trump. Asif Merchant, 46, was arrested while in the process of attempting a murder-for-hire scheme, in which he paid undercover U.S. agents to arrange meetings with potential killers, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in New York. Merchant, who has purported tied to Iran, travelled to New York City to meet the undercover agents and was arrested before he could flee the country....