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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. The shooting suspect was identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. Trump said the suspect was armed with multiple weapons before being stopped by the Secret Service. One officer was shot, but he was protected by a bulletproof vest. “He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun,…

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. ​He was identified as Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California. He will be arraigned Monday in federal District Court, said U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro. Mr. Allen’s home in Torrance was being searched by the FBI, officials said. Mr. Allen will be charged with at least two counts:…

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. I’m John T. Seward, Defense and National Security Correspondent with The Washington Times. I’m here at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in the Washington Hilton Ballroom. We are seeing most of the main dining area actually being cleared out after the dinner was effectively canceled. There were several shots fired outside of the dinner just moments ago. The guests were ducking under tables, crouching down into aisles as U.S. Marshals…

President Trump praised the Secret Service for taking down a gunman who fired several shots inside the Washington Hilton hotel, where Mr. Trump and most of his Cabinet were sitting in the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “I saw a room that was just totally unified. It was, in one way, very beautiful, a very beautiful thing to see,” Mr. Trump, speaking at the White House, said of the scene he witnessed earlier in the ballroom. Mr. Trump said the man had several weapons, including a powerful long gun, when he encountered Secret Service agents outside the ballroom.…

Shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington on Saturday night, forcing guests to duck under tables in the Washington Hilton ballroom. President Trump, who had arrived at the dinner and was planning to roast the media, was evacuated. Several loud bangs were heard in the ballroom and backstage. Witnesses counted six shots. Secret Service with guns drawn rushed the reporters accompanying the president out of the room. Secret service agents respond during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Secret service agents respond during the … more > “Shots…

DENVER – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration not to deport the wife and five children of suspected firebomber Mohamed Sabry Soliman after attorneys said they were rearrested hours after their return to Colorado. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery issued an emergency order Saturday blocking the administration from removing the family members, who had returned to Colorado after a judge ordered their release Thursday following 10 months at a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Eric Lee, attorney for the El Gamal family, said afterward on X that the “deportation flight has turned around and is returning to Denver. We are told the family will be…

Three race-based scholarships were removed from the American Medical Association Foundation’s website after critics called for an Internal Revenue Service probe into whether the awards violate the organization’s tax-exempt status. The three scholarships were deleted from the AMA Foundation website within weeks after Do No Harm, a watchdog group fighting identity politics in the medical field, filed its April 7 complaint with the IRS. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, said the foundation “appears to have removed the discriminatory scholarships at the heart of our IRS complaint – a tacit admission that our concerns were warranted.” Even so, he said that the group’s complaint remains active.…

NAHUNTA, Ga. — Two wildfires in southeastern Georgia continued to threaten homes and lives on Saturday as officials warned that strong winds could spread the flames. Brantley County Manager Joey Cason, called it a “dynamic situation” in a Saturday morning video posted to social media and begged residents to “please evacuate” if they are ordered to do so. “This fire is going to move rapidly, once these winds get here later today,” he said. The Highway 82 Fire has been burning since Monday and has destroyed at least 87 homes. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday that is the most…

The nation’s largest public school district is under investigation by the Trump administration over allegations of antisemitism. The Education Department said its Office for Civil Rights has opened a probe into whether the New York City Department of Education violated Title VI by discriminating against Jewish students with its anti-Israel advocacy. The department cited reports indicating that department employees organized teaching seminars on “Palestine, Zionism, and Resistance,” while a group called NYC Educators for Palestine teaches children as young as age 5 to support Hamas “martyrs” and oppose Zionists as “genocidal white supremacists.” “Complaints received by OCR allege that these…

The House Judiciary Committee expanded its investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s relationship with the Biden administration after the left-wing civil rights group was indicted on fraud charges related to its use of paid informants within white supremacist groups. The committee demanded documents and communications regarding the SPLC “paying sources and any coordination with the Biden-Harris administration” after a federal grand jury indicted the center on 11 counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment released Tuesday alleges that the SPLC paid $3 million from 2014-23 to informants who were members of extremist groups,…