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Law enforcement detaining a suspect following a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on the night of April 25, 2026.
BREAKING

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

Julianne McShane

Donald Trump walks into the presser room his head down and on the left side of the frame. On the right, an American flag is visible.

Following correspondents’ dinner shooting, Trump denounces dissent (again)

Steve Benen

Attendees at the White House Correspondents Dinner hide under tables.

I was a young volunteer at the correspondents’ dinner. Here’s what I hope we learn.

Leo Auerbach

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

What surprised us when we returned to the Washington Hilton after the shooting

Julia Jester

3 big problems with correspondents’ dinner security, according to law enforcement officials

Carol Leonnig

King Charles III waves.

King Charles III brings the stiff upper lip to Trump’s Washington

Autumn Brewington

President Donald Trump, close up.

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

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Jeanine Pirro speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice

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Steve Benen

WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER SHOOTING

Emergency vehicles following reports of a shooting during the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner.

Professor warns of ‘growing normalization of political violence’ in wake of correspondents’ dinner shooting

Allison Detzel

Watch

WH Press Secretary holds first briefing since attack at correspondents’ dinner
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

Trump sitting at the head table and wearing a tuxedo

Conspiracy theories thrive amid chaos of correspondents’ dinner shooting

Andy Campbell

U.S. forces patrol the Arabian Sea near M/V Touska on April 20, 2026, after firing upon the Iranian-flagged vessel that the U.S. accused of attempting to violate the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz.
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Sydney Carruth

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Iran’s FM thanks Putin for ‘strategic partnership’

Sydney Carruth

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Rep. Adam Smith calls Trump’s Iran war strategy a ‘massive disaster’
Vladimir Putin, left, looks down as Donald Trump, right, looks up.

Pressed on latest Putin interactions, Trump prefers secrecy to transparency

Steve Benen

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

Todd Blanche is seen through a red part on the left and black on the right, both in the foreground and out of focus.

Justice Department advocates firing squads as a method of federal execution

Steve Benen

Watch

Suspect’s alleged message laid out attack plan, derided security

Construction of the White House ballroom

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

Laura Barrón-López

A banner hanging off the DOJ building is seen through tree branches.

Trump’s Justice Department joins ballroom lobbying campaign in an unusual way

Steve Benen

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

Anthony L. Fisher

A Dominion Voting machine during the last day of early voting in Gwinnett County, Ga.

Team Trump turns on contractor after it failed to bolster election conspiracy theory

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump

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

Clarissa-Jan Lim

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

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

Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee

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

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Todd Blanche speaks during a press briefing.

Blanche says administration officials were apparent targets of shooting

Erum Salam

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

Jaafar Jackson dressed as Michael Jackson.

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

Soraya Nadia McDonald

Congressman recounts harrowing moments of White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

Oz Pearlman describes chaos of WHCD attack: ‘I thought the room was about to explode’

Daughter of RFK describes D.C. incident: ‘Tremendous sense of fear and unknown’

Secret Service alerted of D.C. shooting suspect’s violent writings the night of the gala

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Ali Vitali describes ducking under table after shots fired at WHCD

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

    Zeeshan Aleem

  2. 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.

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

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  4. 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.

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

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

    Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

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

    Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones

  9. Signs during the Virginia redistricting referendum.

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

    Paul Waldman

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

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  11. 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

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