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The real reason so many House Republicans aren’t returning to Congress

Ryan Teague Beckwith

A man jumps over a chair looking distressed while others are trying to hide under tables.

MAGA cancel culture rears its hypocritical head after attack at correspondents’ dinner

Anthony L. Fisher

In this closeup photo shot from below, Karoline Leavitt looks at some somebody while making a gesture like she is annoyed.

White House wants critics to stop echoing Trump’s rhetoric, flunking self-awareness

Steve Benen

The shadows of ICE agents

Stephen Miller wants a new pool of immigrants for ICE to deport

Hayes Brown

As the World Cup nears, Trump’s toxic influence becomes clear

Ja’han Jones

ICE’s hiring spree led to recruits of ‘questionable qualifications,’ adding to pattern

Steve Benen

This split image shows Hegseth on the left and Rock on the right.

Hegseth faces pushback after giving Kid Rock ‘joy rides’ on Apache helicopters

Steve Benen

This split image shows Donald Trump on the left and George bush on the right. Bush's image is larger than Trump's in this frame.

How low can Trump’s polls go? Bush 2.0 might have the answer.

James Downie

Political tensions hang over King Charles’ historic speech to Congress

Akayla Gardner

King Charles, left, looks at Donald Trump.
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Charles and Camilla head to Capitol Hill

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Deported Dreamer told he’ll be allowed back into U.S.

Laura Barrón-López

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Why it’s a mistake for the Trumps to invest political capital in a fight against Kimmel

Steve Benen

Maurene Comey.

Maurene Comey’s lawsuit challenging Trump DOJ firing may proceed, judge says

Sydney Carruth

Todd Blanche speaks into a microphone.

Trump’s disturbing death penalty wish list

Austin Sarat

Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Trump didn’t ‘fake’ the WHCD attack. Even conspiracy theorists should know better.

Zeeshan Aleem

Trump administration fires entire board overseeing National Science Foundation

The Associated Press

President Donald Trump, close up.

Judge questions whether Trump can sue his own administration for $10 billion

Steve Benen

Workers are seen at the site of the White House ballroom construction.

Preservation group won’t drop lawsuit against Trump’s $400 million ballroom

The Associated Press

Security guards stand around as the Presidential Motorcade arrives.

There’s no excuse for the Secret Service failures we saw Saturday night

Robert D’Amico

Construction of the White House ballroom

Trump’s answer to shooting at Washington gala: Build the ballroom

Laura Barrón-López

A closeup of Trump shaking hands in front of the presidential seal

How the Iran war could hand Trump unprecedented economic control

Joseph Zeballos-Roig

Donald Trumps smiles as he enters room while a security personnel stands behind him.

As family crypto schemes falter, Trump meets again with meme coin investors

Ja'han Jones

Mississippi incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves speaks to members of the press after an election night watch party on Nov. 07, 2023 in Flowood, Miss.

Mississippi GOP waiting for Supreme Court to let it suppress Black votes

Ja'han Jones

A large group of soldiers are seen from behind.

Black Army captain accuses supervisor — a chaplain — of racist threat

Ja'han Jones

A Lebanese soldier overlooks the border wall with Israel with a newly installed Israeli army outpost in the distance where the Israeli army did not withdraw on the road that links the southern Lebanese villages of Adaisseh and Kfar Kila.

Israel just provided Hezbollah a golden opportunity

Hussein Ibish

Court sketches of Cole Tomas Allen in court on April 27, 2026.

Suspect in correspondents’ dinner shooting charged with attempting to assassinate Trump

Julianne McShane & Fallon Gallagher

Attendees at the White House Correspondents Dinner hide under tables.

Why young WHCD volunteers like myself were depressingly prepared for Saturday’s shooting

Leo Auerbach

Hakeem Jeffries.

‘I don’t give a damn about your criticism’: Lawmakers play the blame game after WHCD scare

Kevin Frey & Mychael Schnell

Trump speaks at ceremony for King Charles III and Queen Camilla

Redistricting fights intensify in Virginia and Florida

Lawrence: Trump is now the first U.S. president in history to complain publicly of ‘too much work’

New poll reveals Democratic edge in battleground House districts

Rep. Adam Smith calls Trump’s Iran war strategy a ‘massive disaster’

Trump welcomes King Charles as the U.S. faces isolation from allies

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  1. People duck under tables in the foreground. In the background, agents hold guns.

    What stands out after diving under a table at the correspondents’ dinner

    Jonathan Capehart

  2. Jaafar Jackson dressed as Michael Jackson.

    ‘Michael’ does a disservice to its subject — and to everybody watching

    Soraya Nadia McDonald

  3. A portrait of Trump surrounded by math equations

    Why RFK Jr.’s defense of Trump’s percentage calculations was so embarrassing — for both of them

    Jarvis DeBerry

  4. Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable with Latino leaders Florida.

    Trump did shockingly well with one voting bloc in 2024. Now that support is spiraling.

    Zeeshan Aleem

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    ‘Beef’ Season 2 reflects our ugliest, most human instincts. And we can’t look away.

    Noor Noman

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    What the DOJ’s Southern Poverty Law Center indictment is really about

    Michael Edison Hayden

  7. Photoillustration of Black voters in voting booths. Several of the spaces where there should be voting booths are noticeably empty.

    This wrongly convicted Black man won public office. His state’s response is shocking.

    Jarvis DeBerry

  8. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. In the background, people in military uniforms are visible.

    The dangerous irony of Pete Hegseth’s absurd anti-flu vaccine mandate

    Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham (ret.)

  9. Photoillustration of Kahn Davison and his parents, layered with a newspaper report detailing their deaths.

    I only know a fraction of what the children of Justin Fairfax and his wife are about to endure

    Kahn Davison

  10. President Donald Trump — only his hands and torso visible — holds a Bible.

    Trump’s participation in a marathon Bible-reading event is a cruel joke on America

    Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

  11. Photoillustration of a person seated at a desk with one wrist handcuffed to the desk leg, rendered in a blue-green duotone style.

    Tennessee’s ‘Charlie Kirk Act’ should terrify us all

    Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones

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