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Jacob Grier

Jacob Grier is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of several books, including The New Prohibition and The Rediscovery of Tobacco, and a founder of the link-sharing platform Seabird.

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Todd Blanche speaks during a press briefing.
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Blanche says administration officials were apparent targets at correspondents’ dinner

Erum Salam

Two people take cover near the outskirts of the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Terror overtakes Trump’s first White House Correspondents’ Dinner as president

Akayla Gardner

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seen peering from above a table.

‘We are less-than’: Americans fear more cuts to healthcare programs after RFK Jr. hearings

Maya Eaglin

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

What stands out after diving under a table at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Jonathan Capehart

Trump, officials speak after shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

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Alleged WHCD attacker identified, former senior law enforcement official says

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JD Vance, left, and Marco Rubio sit in the Oval Office while two other men stand behind them holding their phones.

Marco Rubio’s rising star is a very specific sign of the times

Zeeshan Aleem

A woman walks as she smokes with her left hand and carries a coffee cup with the right one.

The U.K. banned tobacco products for anyone born after 2008. Here’s what could go wrong.

Jacob Grier

Roy Moore, former Alabama Chief Justice.

Appeals court overturns Roy Moore’s $8.2 million defamation award

Ebony Davis

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

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

Trump evacuated after security incident at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Julianne McShane, Marc Santia, Ken Dilanian & The Associated Press

Jaafar Jackson dressed as Michael Jackson.

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

Soraya Nadia McDonald

President Donald Trump

Trump cancels U.S. officials’ trip to Pakistan for Iran negotiations

Clarissa-Jan Lim

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a "Trump Gold Card."

With just one approval, Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ program is off to an embarrassing start

Steve Benen

Trump is not ending the war on drugs — he’s fighting it tooth and nail

Anthony L. Fisher

This split image shows Donald Trump on the left and Barack Obama on the right.

Trump threw out a perfectly good Obama-era deal. Now he’s left with nothing.

Hayes Brown

The Lincoln Memorial beyond the waters of the reflecting pool on the National Mall.

Trump, still mired in distractions, turns his attention to the reflecting pool in D.C.

Steve Benen

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

Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee

DNC chair says releasing full 2024 election autopsy would cause ‘navel-gazing’

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Lisa Philips speaks at a podium as other survivors stand behind her.

One key detail about DOJ’s new Epstein files audit is going largely unnoticed

Lisa Rubin

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building.

Is there a double standard with Justices Sotomayor and Thomas?

Jordan Rubin

Donald Trump; Mojtaba Khamenei.

The U.S. and Iran are fighting an economic war. Experts say Iran may win it.

Julia Jester & David Rohde

Jason Jin as JB, Youn Yuh-jung as Chairwoman Park, and Seoyeon Jang as Eunice in "BEEF".

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

Noor Noman

Samuel Alito looks on as he sits at a table with others.

New book sheds more light on Justice Alito’s refusal to recuse himself in a Jan. 6 case

Jordan Rubin

Alleged WHCD attacker taken to hospital for evaluation, officials say

Ali Vitali describes ducking under table after shots fired at WHCD

‘Our guiding light’: Epstein survivors hold vigil marking one year since Virginia Giuffre’s death

‘Omens couldn’t be better for Democrats’: Elections expert Sabato predicts midterms landslide

‘Very scary’: MS NOW’s Luke Russert recounts hearing gunshots at WHCD

 ‘We don’t have exceptions’: Mamdani on Trump paying new NYC tax

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  1. The exterior of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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

    Michael Edison Hayden

  2. 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

  3. 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.)

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Signs during the Virginia redistricting referendum.

    The hardest part is still to come for Virginia Democrats after redistricting win

    Paul Waldman

  8. People hold one another during a memorial. The surround a large wooden cross.

    The violent killings of eight children aren’t just about mental illness

    Denese Shervington

  9. People call for a regime change in Iran, waving lion and sun Iranian flags.

    Trump has only one real option left when it comes to Iran

    Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward (ret.)

  10. Kevin Warsh sits, hands clasped, in front of a microphone.

    Elizabeth Warren’s deceptively simple question for Kevin Warsh was a test. He failed.

    Hayes Brown

  11. Photoillustration of Kash Patel with a collage of torn newspapers and scales of justice.

    Patel’s defamation lawsuit will have real ramifications — even if he’s likely to lose

    Jessica Levinson

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