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A man opened fire at a security checkpoint outside the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, wounding a Secret Service agent’s protective vest but not the officer, and prompting the rapid evacuation of President Donald Trump and others from the ballroom. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said investigators …
A faction of House Democrats has pushed for a commission to assess presidential fitness under the 25th Amendment after President Trump’s recent rhetoric and actions, but many party strategists and incumbents caution that focusing on removal or impeachment risks undermining Democrats’ midterm pitch centered on affordability and the economy.
A Reuters/Ipsos national poll conducted April 15-20 finds 64% of U.S. adults oppose abolishing birthright citizenship while 32% favor it, as the Supreme Court prepares to issue rulings this term on immigration policy, transgender participation in women’s sports, and mail-in ballot counting. The survey highlights deep partisan cleavages on these iss…
A gunman armed with multiple weapons shot a Secret Service agent outside the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, which President Donald Trump headlined. The incident, occurring just floors away from a ballroom packed with roughly 2,600 guests and a concentration of cabinet members, lawmakers and celebrities,…
Law enforcement officials have identified the individual arrested following gunfire at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents' Dinner as Cole Tomas Allen, a Torrance, California resident. Publicly available social media and professional profiles portray him as a Caltech alumnus with engineering and computer science degrees, who…
A single gunman rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, prompting agents to escort President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet from the venue. The suspect was subdued and taken into custody after law enforcement exchanged gunfire and tackled him; officials say the …
Republican operatives are adjusting their midterm strategy to extract the voter-mobilizing benefits of Donald Trump’s appeal while avoiding framing congressional contests as a direct referendum on his presidency. The shift follows rising gasoline costs, low presidential approval ratings and the continued Iran war, which together have prompted campa…
President Donald Trump will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner on Saturday, marking the first time he has appeared at the black-tie event while in office. His participation, after boycotts in his first term and in 2025, has produced intense debate inside Washington’s newsrooms and among press freedom groups. Critics po…
President Donald Trump will welcome winners of his second annual meme coin contest to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, this Saturday, offering top $TRUMP token holders access to a day-long conference and a VIP reception despite the token having collapsed from its peak. The event comes amid increased scrutiny of the Trump family's crypto activitie…
The Department of Justice is expected to terminate its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as soon as Friday, according to reports citing officials familiar with the matter. Senior DOJ officials have notified senators, including Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, that the inquiry into alleged cost overruns at the Fed's Washing…
The U.S. State Department announced on April 24 that Tommy Pigott has been appointed as its new spokesperson. Pigott, who joined the department and the Trump administration in January 2025, had been serving as principal deputy spokesperson. The post became vacant after Tammy Bruce was appointed U.S. deputy representative to the United Nations. The …
A newly launched conservative super PAC, Homeland Political Action Committee, has vowed to target House Republicans who back the bipartisan DIGNIDAD Act, setting up potential primary fights in safe Republican districts and creating strategic tensions within the party as it weighs immigration policy against broader electoral concerns, particularly a…
President Donald Trump plans to nominate David Cummins, a senior vice president at Serco North America who manages the company’s civilian government portfolio, to lead the Transportation Security Administration. The nomination comes as the White House pushes proposals to privatize portions of TSA operations, cut thousands of agency jobs and reduce …
An investigator enlisted by the president to re-examine the 2020 election and alleged foreign interference pressed ahead with allegations after a federal forensic review of Dominion voting machines seized in Puerto Rico found no trace of hacking. The probe, led by a prominent election-denying attorney, used federal resources and expanded into Georg…
The Legal Accountability Center has filed a complaint with the Virginia State Bar accusing U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas of breaching professional conduct rules by instructing staff to stop processing certain discrimination claims and by sending extensive information requests to 20 large law firms. The filing conte…
A Reuters/Ipsos survey shows that claims questioning the integrity of U.S. elections have taken strong root among Republican voters, with large shares endorsing unproven assertions about non-citizen voting and mail-in ballot fraud. The poll also finds wide bipartisan support for voter ID rules, localized backing for federal law enforcement at polls…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on April 22 signed legislation that prevents local governments from creating or maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices or programs and bars public funds from being used to advance DEI. The law requires grant recipients to certify they will not use state or local grants to support DEI, establishes pen…
Kennedy Center leaders held their first public media tour of planned, taxpayer-funded renovations after President Donald Trump appended his name to the building and assumed its board chairmanship. Officials promised increased transparency while outlining structural problems - from eroding support beams to corroded electrical vaults - that they say …
A Virginia circuit court has declared invalid a voter-approved referendum that would have enacted a Democratic-drawn congressional map capable of flipping four Republican-held U.S. House seats, halting any state action to implement the new districts. The Republican National Committee was the plaintiff in the suit, and Virginia's attorney general ha…
President Donald Trump asserted without presenting evidence that a Virginia referendum to redraw congressional districts was "rigged," following voter approval of the measure. The redistricting vote, held Tuesday, could enable Democrats to contest as many as four Republican-held U.S. House seats and strengthen their bid to win control of the chambe…
A recent Reuters/Ipsos online poll indicates that President Donald Trump's robust deportation campaign may reduce support for Republican candidates in the November midterm congressional elections. Majorities of Americans, including many independents, say they are less likely to back a candidate who endorses the president's approach to deportations,…
Six candidates will square off in California’s first prominent gubernatorial debate since Eric Swalwell abruptly left the race and stepped down from Congress. The debate, slated for 7 p.m. PDT Wednesday (0200 GMT Thursday) and broadcast by Nexstar in six of the state’s largest markets, comes as polls show shifting support and underscore the strateg…
A divided 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 9-7 that Texas may require a visible poster of the Ten Commandments in every public elementary and secondary school classroom, reversing a lower court injunction. The ruling, authored by Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan and joined by Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod and seven other judges, found no…
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told members of Congress on Tuesday that no one in the White House instructed him to halt public discussion of vaccines or other contentious positions ahead of November’s midterm elections. Speaking at his fourth hearing of the week, Kennedy emphasized nutrition and food safety in his prepared remarks, and den…
On April 21, civil liberties organizations filed suit in federal court in Washington, D.C., asking a judge to bar the U.S. Department of Justice from accessing or using states' registered voter lists and to delete voter data it already collected. The complaint argues the department's requests for detailed, unredacted voter information risk creating…
