{"id":70180,"date":"2026-03-27T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/member-of-jill-bidens-security-detail-shoots-self-in-leg-at-philadelphia-airport\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:55:34","slug":"member-of-jill-bidens-security-detail-shoots-self-in-leg-at-philadelphia-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/member-of-jill-bidens-security-detail-shoots-self-in-leg-at-philadelphia-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Member of Jill Biden\u2019s security detail shoots self in leg at Philadelphia airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-first lady wasn\u2019t near \u2018negligent discharge\u2019 and agent is now in hospital while Secret Service investigates incident<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/secret-service\">US Secret Service<\/a> agent, working on security detail for the former first lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jill-biden\">Jill Biden<\/a>, shot themself in the leg at the Philadelphia international airport on Friday morning, an agency spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The Secret Service special agent suffered a \u201cnon-life-threatening injury\u201d after they discharged their weapon at around 8.30am. Biden was not near the agent at the time and no one else was injured.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/27\/jill-biden-secret-service\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-first lady wasn\u2019t near \u2018negligent discharge\u2019 and agent is now in hospital while Secret Service investigates incident Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A US Secret Service agent, working on security detail for the former first lady Jill Biden, shot themself in the leg at the &#8230; <a title=\"Member of Jill Biden\u2019s security detail shoots self in leg at Philadelphia airport\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/member-of-jill-bidens-security-detail-shoots-self-in-leg-at-philadelphia-airport\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Member of Jill Biden\u2019s security detail shoots self in leg at Philadelphia airport\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}