
The Guardian - 21 hours 42 min ago
A Washington DC event rapidly descending in fear and panic and fear after gunshots is, sadly, a piece with the chaotic tragedy of our times For as long as I can remember, the White House correspondents' dinner was where the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other's celebrity. Saturday night's dinner ended abruptly with gunshots , Secret Service officers screaming at attendees to "get down", Donald Trump and other officials being rapidly ushered out...

Sky News - 22 hours 4 min ago
Donald Trump has claimed a shooting at a White House correspondents' dinner would have been avoided had his proposed ballroom been built.

Daily Signal - 22 hours 13 min ago
Republican Sen. Jim Banks has come out in support of President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., calling for it to serve as a template for the construction of more neoclassical architecture of its type in the capital. Trump has proposed that a 250-foot triumphal arch be constructed on Columbia Island a piece of...

The Raw Story - 22 hours 38 min ago
A contrast between President Donald Trump's war with Iran and a previous conflict has been flagged by a war scholar. Trump's military conflict with Iran has emerged as one of the most consequential failures of his second term. The war, launched without congressional authorization, has devastated regional stability and undermined American credibility with traditional allies. Domestically, the conflict has fractured the MAGA movement, with prominent figures like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie...

NBC News - 23 hours 4 min ago
President Donald Trump announced special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner would not travel to Pakistan for potential peace talks related to the war in Iran. The President says he is unhappy with the initial peace proposal from Iranian officials and that negotiations can continue, for now, over the phone.

The Guardian - 23 hours 12 min ago
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week's question: The Missouri tofu spill was unforgettable' but what are history's greatest bad smells? The furious reaction to Donald Trump's posting of an AI-generated image of himself as a Christ-like healer resulted in a rare walkback from the US president, who deleted it from his social media account...

The Guardian - 23 hours 12 min ago
With his stand against Trump, the pope has shown the far right doesn't have a monopoly on Christianity. If people of good faith push hard, the future could be redefined In the same way that America's shambolic war on Iran has turned Donald Trump into the most effective EV salesman the world has ever seen, so his attempts to defend said war have produced another unlikely outcome: the rise of a genuine and global theological debate. Led by Pope Leo but extending across Christian denominations...

The Guardian - 23 hours 12 min ago
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week's replies: Donald Trump is not the messiah. But what does it take to convince people that you are? I must admit to cracking a smile when I read the story about the revolting result of a tofu spill last month in Missouri. About 40,000lbs (18,000kg) of extra-firm tofu was left to rot for three weeks after a road...

NBC News - 23 hours 20 min ago
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he believes the suspected gunman at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was targeting administration officials, noting "we're still looking into" whether President Donald Trump was specifically targeted...

NBC News - 23 hours 39 min ago
NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who was sitting with invited members of President Donald Trump's cabinet during the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, joins Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist to share what she saw and heard during the incident. "I spun around and saw the President was already being taken out. It was all happening in split seconds," she says.

NBC News - 23 hours 44 min ago
President Donald Trump is safe and unharmed after a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. A man armed with guns and knives attempted to breach security at the event, exchanging gunfire with Secret Service before he was tackled and taken into custody. NBC's Julie Tsirkin reports for Sunday TODAY.

The Independent - 23 hours 56 min ago
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the accused gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration...