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 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.
President Trump is attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday for the first time as commander-in-chief—after boycotting the annual event last year and each year during his first term.
GOP infighting threatens to prolong the DHS shutdown as House Republicans demand a broader reconciliation bill beyond the Senate's immigration-only approach.
Nonprofits rally behind the Southern Poverty Law Center as it faces federal charges for allegedly funding members of violent extremist groups like the KKK.
The U.S. is racing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Iran reportedly lays mines in the critical waterway, testing the Navy's shift to unmanned systems.
