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.
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.
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.
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.
President Trump said Thursday the U.S. is committing $10 billion to the Board of Peace, the forum that was created to reconstruct the Gaza Strip but that the president wants to see broadened to tackle other foreign conflicts. Trump made the pledge during the first meeting of the Board of Peace, held in Washington, D.C....
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday joined a rally in Los Angeles to push for California's controversial wealth tax, which has been opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). “Enough is enough,” Sanders said, according to The Associated Press. “The billionaire class cannot have it all. This nation belongs to all of us.” The senator touted...
A new analysis from the JPMorgan Chase Institute found that tariff payments by midsize U.S. firms roughly tripled in 2025. The analysis, published Thursday, shows that midsize firms’ tariff payments began increasing starting in April, the month that President Trump unveiled his sweeping “Liberation Day” levies on numerous trading partners. Tariff payments by midsize firms...
President Trump on Thursday morning will host the first meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington. The recently formed organization has been tasked with supervising postwar restoration efforts in Gaza amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — including the disarmament of the Palestinian militant group as part of the second phase of the...
Dozens of world leaders are gathering in Washington, where President Trump will host his first Board of Peace meeting Thursday morning. The board, which was launched by Trump last month, aims to oversee the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip amid a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire and after the war's end. Several countries, including many U.S. allies,...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — formerly known as Prince Andrew — was reportedly arrested Thursday on suspicion of misconduct while in public office, amid new revelations around his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The BBC reported early Thursday that Mountbatten-Windsor was taken into custody at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England. The former prince...
