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As the old saying goes, never let a crisis go to waste. That's exactly what President Donald Trump did on Sunday morning as he tried to use last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to sell his signature White House Ballroom project, which has been temporarily halted by a court order. During the event, alleged shooter Cole...
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Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement erupted on Sunday after the alleged White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter's manifesto was published online. Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and several cabinet officials were swiftly whisked away from the Washington Hilton in the nation's capital after shots rang out during the annual gathering...
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Mark Carney is trying to follow the approach of "values-based realism" in Canada's international relations, which he announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. In practice, standing up for sovereignty and international law isn't always easy and doesn't always happen.
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Within a matter of hours, two MS NOW journalists were able to walk through and document the scene of the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD), sparking confusion among critics who questioned why the area had not been restricted by law enforcement.The annual WHCD – attended for the first time by President Donald Trump...
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In the wake of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting Saturday, several guests expressed shock Sunday at what they characterized as an unprecedented lack of security at the event, a dinner attended by President Donald Trump and many of his top officials."I was never asked for a key, but could've produced one from a different city. Also...
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President Donald Trump's administration has been criticized for a mistake made over King Charles III's visit to the United States. Black lampposts outside of the White House were adorned with flags representing Australia, not the United Kingdom. Political analysts were left astonished by the mix-up, which Trump's admin apologized for at the time....
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The Supreme Court's infighting has spilled out into public view, and it paints an ugly picture of the judicial body, according to a political analyst. The New York Times opinion columnist Jesse Wegman believes recent activity from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas highlights the trouble brewing inside the Supreme Court....
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President Donald Trump could see his vast personal fortune wiped out by a judge's ruling relating to the January 6 Capitol Hill attack, a legal analyst wrote Sunday.The insurrection occurred as Congress met to certify the 2020 presidential election results, which Trump had refused to accept. Veteran legal analyst Sabrina Haake believes that Trump...
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The New York Post claimed Sunday to have obtained a copy of a manifesto written by the suspected shooter who disrupted the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) Saturday night, in which the gunman names every Trump administration official as a target – except for one, and without explanation as to the lone exclusion.The suspected gunman was...
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Vice President JD Vance's support for a presidential campaign is slipping rapidly, according to a political analyst. Vance has attempted to consolidate his possible presidential push with a series of appearances at Turning Point USA rallies. But the Vice President is seemingly losing support, and potential voters are abandoning Vance in favor of...
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Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has been grilled by a White House insider for allegedly lying about Trump Gold Card statistics. President Donald Trump announced the Trump Gold Card earlier this year. Trump first discussed the notion in February to sell the exclusive visas for $5 million a piece to give "very high-level people” a "route to...
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Despite President Donald Trump's claim that the United States has "total control” over the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian military boarded and apprehended two container ships that had attempted to traverse the shipping waterway, with Tehran claiming victory on Sunday over what they called "maritime piracy by U.S. terrorist forces,” The Wall...
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Security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner has been criticized by an attendee who says more could have been done to prevent the shooting.A gunman stormed a security checkpoint outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 26, 2026, forcing President Trump and his party to evacuate the head table in a...
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In recent decades, South Carolina has become the Democratic Party's make-or-break proving ground for White House hopefuls - and Congressman Jim Clyburn, the state's sole Black Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, is one of the party's most important voices. The civil rights veteran talks with "Sunday Morning" national correspondent Robert...
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Friends,For as long as I can remember, the White House Correspondents dinner was where the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other's celebrity.Last night's ended abruptly with gunshots, Secret Service officers screaming at attendees to "get down,” Trump and other officials being rapidly ushered out of the ballroom,...
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A contrast between President Donald Trump's war with Iran and a previous conflict has been flagged by a war scholar.Trump's military conflict with Iran has emerged as one of the most consequential failures of his second term. The war, launched without congressional authorization, has devastated regional stability and undermined American credibility...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed on Sunday what the potential motive was for the man suspected of opening fire at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Saturday night, CNN reported."The suspected gunman who charged through a security checkpoint at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner appeared to be targeting...
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In the wake of the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) shooting Saturday night, President Donald Trump doubled down on his calls to fast-track his White House ballroom project Sunday morning, demanding that the lawsuit currently holding the project up be "dropped immediately.”"What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great...
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President Donald Trump is using an old tactic to scare the electorate ahead of the midterm elections, a political analyst has claimed. Heather Digby Parton, a columnist for Salon, suggested that Trump and the Department of Justice are kindling a scare tactic with a "lesser-known" administration policy. Mass deportations have given the right a...
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Speculation swirled Sunday morning after a viral clip captured Fox News reporter Aishah Hasnie recounting chilling remarks from Nicholas Riccio – the husband of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – made just moments before the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) shooting, with the call also appearing to drop mid-sentence.The...
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President Donald Trump will funnel a potential IRS payout into a family shell company, a political analyst has claimed. Trump and his sons are negotiating with the Internal Revenue Service to settle a $10 billion lawsuit without trial. Trump filed the lawsuit after taking office, claiming an IRS contractor leaked his tax information. The motion for...
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The GOP's first-family "grift” obsession about Hunter Biden is like a dirty joke gone wrong, one with a punchline more offensive than funny.Republicans in Congress spent years and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prove a "crime family” narrative about Hunter and his laptop that never materialized into anything more than a tax case...
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President Donald Trump revealed Saturday night that he initially mistook the sound of gunfire for a dropped tray at the White House Correspondents' Dinner — and that it was Melania who first sensed something was wrong"I heard a noise. I sort of thought it was a tray, a tray going down. From quite far away," Trump told reporters at a White House...
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The 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner marked President Donald Trump's first appearance at the annual event since returning to office, with mentalist Oz Pearlman scheduled to perform.The evening was cut short when shots rang out as dinner was being served at the Washington Hilton ballroom. Secret Service agents swarmed the hall, jumping onto...
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President Donald Trump said that the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner proves why the country needs his ballroom in the White House, prompting scorn. "Jesus Christ. He is using this as an excuse to hype his ballroom?" Democratic strategist Chris D. Jackson wrote on X. "I just can't."A shooter stormed a security checkpoint outside...
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The shooter who attacked the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday charged a security checkpoint set up near the entrance of the main ballroom, a conservative pundit recounted. "The shooter charged the magnetometer closest to the front door," conservative pundit Sean Hannity told Fox News shortly after the chaos, which cut the dinner short...
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A law enforcement agent was reportedly hospitalized after being shot by a gunman who stormed the entrance to the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night. CNN's John Berman reported that the shooter injured a law enforcement agent. Fox News host Sean Hannity also reported that a Secret Service agent was shot while the shooter stormed...
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CNN journalist Wolf Blitzer described the "very scary" scene that unfolded in front of him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner."All of a sudden, I start hearing gunshots in the hall right near me," Blitzer said. He was returning to his seat after using the bathroom, and shooting broke out before the dinner got underway. "The next thing I...
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The White House Correspondents' Dinner was initially set to resume after gunfire forced Trump and his party to evacuate, leaving a CNN anchor taken aback.CNN reporter Brianna Keilar called it "difficult to fathom" that the event would carry on "because I just can't describe even the scene and just how scared everyone had been."C-SPAN reported that...
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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday night after a shooter was reportedly killed by Secret Service at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, praising law enforcement and suggesting the event continue."Quite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely," Trump wrote,...
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A C-SPAN host was surprised to see FBI Director Kash Patel show up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and wondered who could have possibly invited him."It looks like Kash Patel is in the ballroom. We do not know who invited him," C-SPAN host Peter Sein said. "You have to be a media organization and a member of the White House Correspondents'...
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Security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner evacuated the head table where President Donald Trump was supposed to sit after reports of loud sounds. C-SPAN hosts suddenly cut away from their normal coverage of the dinner. Security officers with guns were shown scanning the area around the table. No reason was given right away for the...
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Journalists covering the White House Correspondents' Dinner described the chaotic scene that led to the evacuation of President Donald Trump and a shooter reportedly dead. "I did not hear any shots. You just hear yelling like a commotion, someone coming through the room," a journalist told C-SPAN commentators during live coverage of the dinner. "I...
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Columnist Maureen Dowd has a message for Donald Trump: You went hunting for a quick win in Iran and ended up the prey.In a blistering Saturday column for the New York Times, the veteran columnist compared Trump's Iran adventure to the classic O. Henry short story "The Ransom of Red Chief," in which two bumbling kidnappers are so tormented by their...
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Footage from the White House Correspondents' Dinner shows clashing and officers yelling "get down!" before President Trump was evacuated. Host Oz Pearlman is shown holding up a card to Melania Trump when the sound of plates breaking begins. Faces turn serious at Trump's head table, and although music continues, security officers rush in and tell...
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A couple of protesters made a scene before the start of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday to demand Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's arrest for what they called "war crimes.""Arrest Pete Hegseth for war crimes! Arrest Pete Hegseth for war crimes," one of the protesters yelled from the red carpet as Trump officials were showing up. ...
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Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner marks a notable departure from recent years, as President Donald Trump was expected to attend, and perhaps the world's most famous mentalist will be hosting.The dinner kicks off at 8 p.m. ET, with C-SPAN's red carpet coverage beginning at 6 p.m.C-SPAN is carrying the event live and free at...
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by Lomi Kriel, The Texas TribuneApril 25, 2026A flight carrying an Egyptian family to Michigan late Saturday abruptly turned around after a Texas judge ruled that the six should remain in the U.S. pending further litigation.The last-minute reversal was the most recent development in a dizzying series of events this week that attorneys said added to...
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Hearing that the Trump administration plans to deny green cards for immigrants who express their political opinions has commentators sounding the alarm.Journalist Hamed Aleaziz reported on Saturday that migrants will be denied green cards by the Trump administration if they took part in pro-Palestinian campus protests, criticized Israel online or...
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President Donald Trump posted what appears to be an AI-generated image to Truth Social on Saturday morning, comparing the Reflecting Pool under Barack Obama to its appearance under his administration — but the internet immediately spotted a problem: both photos have the same clouds.The side-by-side image, labeled "Hussein Obama" vs "Trump,"...
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Iran struck back against the United States military harder and more destructively than Trump officials previously revealed, according to a report. NBC News broke the news on Saturday that an Iranian F-5 fighter jet broke through U.S. air defenses and struck more than 100 targets, including 11 bases in Gulf states. Insiders told NBC News that the...
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A GOP candidate in a California congressional race took a shot at his primary challenger's loyalty to Trump and MAGA credentials with a new attack ad. Rep. Ken Calvert called fellow California congressional Republican Rep. Young Kim a "Trump-traitor" and a "RINO," or Republican in name only, in an ad for his primary campaign that blasts Kim's...
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The Department of Justice hurt its own case against the Southern Poverty Law Center with a poor choice of words, with a legal expert calling the indictment "particularly weak" on its face. "What makes this all highly problematic is an apparent gaffe in the charging language," legal expert Andrew Weissmann wrote in a Saturday piece for Just...
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A Republican congressman fighting for his political life against a Trump-backed primary challenger delivered a cutting and candid assessment of what it's like to work for the president.Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky told The Atlantic that he used to joke about the one condition he'd place on any Trump cabinet job: a plane."I need a small jet...
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The White House Correspondents' Dinner has long been a stage for sharp political satire, with comedians skewering presidents and the press corps alike.This year, that tradition takes an unexpected turn. Instead of a stand-up comic, organizers have tapped Oz Pearlman, a mentalist known for mind-reading feats and psychological illusion, to host one...
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FBI Director Kash Patel is likely next on the White House chopping block, according to reports coming out of Washington, D.C. "It's only a matter of time,” an anonymous official told Politico's Dasha Burns. Patel's drinking has become a focal point recently, accusations he denies, but Burns wrote on X that "there are several reasons" why Trump...
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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Saturday to blast the New York Times over its coverage of Lafayette Park's renovation after the paper reviewed documents that tell a very different story than the one he has sold.Trump claimed the park had been "left in disarray after decades of neglect" and that he made "a multimillion contribution" to...
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Eyes are back on the Republican senator who split from Trump's attack on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell after the president said he's not giving up just yet. "Now the burden shifts back to Thom Tillis to continue opposing Kevin Warsh's confirmation indefinitely," the X account Rogue POTUS staff wrote, "or to cave."Sen. Tillis, R-NC, broke...
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President Donald Trump triggered outrage when he fired what House Science Committee Democratic staff described as the entirety of the independent board overseeing the nation's premier basic science funding agency on Friday, sending boilerplate termination emails that offered no explanation and no warning.Members of the National Science Board, which...
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Ben Shapiro just handed his critics everything they've ever wanted — and then explained why it doesn't matter, an analyst wrote Saturday.In a searing analysis published Friday, writer Mike Brock argued that Shapiro's recent appearance on Sam Harris' podcast amounted to the most damning self-indictment by a Trump defender in years because of what...
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President Donald Trump contradicted his Justice Department on the ending of an investigation into outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. "It's not dropped," Trump insisted to reporters on Saturday despite Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, saying on Friday that "I have directed my office to close our investigation"...
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Melania Trump's statement regarding her involvement with Jeffrey Epstein has endangered President Donald Trump, a biographer has claimed. Michael Wolff, the author behind Fire and Fury: Inside the White House, believes the First Lady's statement is not just about creating distance between her and child sex offender Epstein, but about dragging Trump...
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There is a silent GOP resistance with congress, according to a Republican lawmaker who says six to a dozen colleagues privately admitted they'd defy Donald Trump under certain circumstances.Rep. Thomas Massie is claiming the existence of a shadow network of Republicans in Congress who privately confess they would vote according to their...
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Donald Trump's own voters expressed outrage after the president showed his support for a Democrat.The Official White House Rapid Response account on Thursday broadcast the words of Trump himself, who was seen in a photo with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.Alongside the picture, Trump wrote:"It was my Great Honor to meet with the Mayor of Los Angeles,...
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President Donald Trump's new plan to salvage the midterm elections has already collapsed, according to a political analyst.Legal expert Michael Popok outlined how Trump's attempt to draft in James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, has already gone wrong. A recent meeting at the Waldorf Astoria leaked, revealing that just a day before...
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President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned diplomatic mission to Pakistan involving senior envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who were scheduled to meet with Iranian representatives, outraging observers.Trump revealed the decision to a Fox News reporter, Aishah Hasnie, first, stating: "I've told my people a little while ago, they were...
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President Donald Trump's administration handed millions in taxpayer funds to a company already working on a White House refurbishment, a report has shown. Trump chose the Maryland-based Clark Construction to build his $400 million ballroom, but an investigation from the New York Times exposed a separate deal with the firm to work on another job....
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President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has cancelled a planned diplomatic mission to Islamabad, Pakistan, characterizing the journey as an inefficient use of time and resources."I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going is Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much...
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President Donald Trump has presented a new problem for the United States through cuts made to the DOJ, a former insider has claimed. Former pardon attorney Liz Oyer, speaking with Washington D.C. correspondent Scott MacFarlane, suggested that cuts made by the Trump administration had put the country into a dangerous spot. Specifically, cuts made to...
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Donald Trump appears to be falling asleep in public, and the media should mention it, a senator said on Saturday.The alarm comes after independent journalist Aaron Rupar shared a video of Trump with his eyes closed during a meeting in the president's office."Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible,"...
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President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Senate Republicans on Truth Social Saturday, threatening catastrophic political consequences if they fail to pass his "SAVE America Act" and suggesting the party eliminate the filibuster to do so."Not passing the SAVE AMERICA ACT will lead to the worst results for a political party in the HISTORY of the...
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