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Inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as shots fired, Trump rushed from the stage

Shots fired. Guests ducking for cover. Secret Service with guns drawn. Washington Times correspondent John T. Seward was inside the ballroom when chaos erupted at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

WATCH: Accused gunman identified, seen sprinting through security check at Washington dinner

The accused White House Correspondents' Dinner gunman is identified as a 31-year-old man armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives who sprinted through a Secret Service checkpoint and attempted to storm a ballroom inside the Washington Hilton, where President Trump and other high-ranking officials were seated.

Trump strikes conciliatory tone with press after WHCA shooting incident

President Trump struck a conciliatory tone with the press Saturday after a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, forcing him to scrap a speech in which he promised to be "rough" on reporters.

Trump praises Secret Service for taking down shooter at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

President Trump praised the Secret Service for taking down a gunman who fired several shots inside the Washington Hilton, where Mr. Trump and most of his Cabinet were sitting in the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Cole Tomas Allen identified as suspect in shooting at White House correspondents’ dinner

President Trump is addressing reporters at the White House after he and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after a shooting incident outside the ballroom.

Russia says Ukraine peace talks in ‘situational pause’ amid Iran war

The Kremlin on Thursday said peace talks with the Trump administration to end the Russia-Ukraine war are on a “situational pause” amid the war in Iran.  "This is a situational pause, for obvious reasons," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday in reference to the Ukraine talks, according to Reuters. Peskov's Thursday comments regarding...

Google: AI tool helped prevent heat-trapping contrails

Google said on Thursday that its artificial intelligence (AI) forecasts helped prevent contrails, the white lines that often follow planes in the sky. The tech giant said in a blog post that it had decided to collaborate with American Airlines in 2023 “to show that pilots using AI-based forecasts could reduce contrails on a small...

Education Department shifting student loan responsibilities to Treasury Department

The Education Department announced Thursday that it is moving some of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, the latest and largest in a series of program shifts as the Trump administration works toward its goal of shutting down the Education Department. The interagency agreement, officials said, will move “operational responsibility for collecting on defaulted Federal student loan...

Gas prices in 8 states cross $4: The states that could be there soon

Prices at the pump have been climbing, jumping more than $1 a gallon since the month began.

IMF: Prolonged high gas prices could increase inflation

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Thursday that rising energy prices caused by the ongoing conflict with Iran could lead to higher global inflation if prolonged, but it said no nation has yet reached out for emergency financial assistance. IMF communications director Julie Kozack told reporters that the organization was closely monitoring how oil and...

Massie ad labels challenger ‘Trump traitor’

A new ad from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) slams his GOP primary opponent, Ed Gallrein, whom President Trump has endorsed.  The ad, shared Thursday by Inside Elections journalist Jacob Rubashkin on the social platform X, opens with a photo of Massie and the president smiling and flashing thumbs-ups. It then goes on to accuse Gallrein...

Trump does not plan to bar oil or gas exports, say Burgum and Wright

The Trump administration will not restrict U.S. exports of oil or natural gas amid rising prices over the war in Iran, top officials said Thursday. In identical statements posted on social platform X, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, “To be clear, the Trump administration has no plan to implement restrictions on oil and...

Frost: Mullin accepting DHS nomination ‘shows us who he is’

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) weighed in on President Trump's decision to tap Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), claiming the senator's acceptance of the nomination “shows us who he is.” “Him accepting, right, this nomination, and sitting there and wanting to be in the Cabinet, already shows us who...

Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit over California egg prices

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration against California last summer over the cost of eggs. U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi, a President Trump appointee, found that the federal government lacked standing to challenge California laws and regulations governing the production, sale and shipment of eggs. Scarsi did...

Thune, Tim Scott backing Hern for Mullin’s Senate seat

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on Thursday endorsed Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) in the race to succeed outgoing Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R). In a release by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which Scott chairs, Thune called Hern “a proven conservative leader and fighter for Oklahomans” in the House....

Early COVID pandemic death toll much higher than official count: Study

A study published Wednesday shows that the early U.S. death toll during the COVID-19 pandemic was higher than previously recorded. The journal Science Advances found that more than 155,000 unrecognized additional deaths outside of hospitals between March 2020 and December 2021 likely went uncounted. This suggests that 16 percent of deaths went uncounted, as the...

Admin touts TrumpRX success: it’s a quick fix, not real progress!  

A new analysis from The New York Times, along with German outlets NDR and WDR, took a closer look at the administration’s new drug pricing platform, TrumpRx. What they found is that while some prices have come down, Americans are still paying significantly more than patients in other wealthy countries,

New GOP-favored Texas district avoids runoff as runner-up drops out of race

Businessman Ryan Binkley withdrew from the GOP runoff in Texas’s newly drawn 32nd Congressional District on Tuesday, ensuring that attorney Jace Yarbrough will be the party’s nominee in November's general election. Binkley wrote in a statement Tuesday that Yarbrough “ran a disciplined campaign” and he is “genuinely excited to see what [his former opponent] will...

Dems in disarray: James Talarico goes vegan in Texas? Squad loses big in Illinois.

Bad news for progressive Democrats all over the country.  

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