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Amid the professional-grade networking at Tammy Haddad’s Garden Brunch in Georgetown on Saturday, hours before the kickoff of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, a television anchor was joking about how savage President Trump might be toward the news media in his speech later that night. “Twenty-four hours from now,” the anchor said, gesturing at…
Federal authorities are investigating a note they said was written by the man being held in connection with the attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner that suggests he was angered by the actions of the Trump administration. The writing was shared with The New York Times by two law enforcement officials who asked not…
A man armed with knives, a shotgun and a handgun was barreling through security at a full sprint, heading toward the ballroom at the Washington Hilton. At that moment on Saturday night, President Trump and many of America’s top government officials and journalists were one floor down, crammed into the ballroom for a black-tie dinner….
The aftermath of the shooting that sent Secret Service agents rushing President Trump from the dais at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night played out on social media as videos were widely shared of the chaotic and surreal scenes. An investigation was continuing about the motive of the gunman, identified by two…
Once again, a gunman got perilously close to President Trump. The storming of a security checkpoint on Saturday evening by an armed man at the hotel hosting the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was the third time in three years that Mr. Trump had faced danger. During the 2024 campaign, he survived two assassination attempts,…
The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, held to celebrate press freedom, quickly descended into panic on Saturday evening when a man carrying multiple weapons charged past a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton and exchanged fire with law enforcement officials before being taken into custody. President Trump, attending the dinner for the first time in…
It was 10:31 p.m. on Saturday when President Trump walked into the White House briefing room, still dressed in his tuxedo and bow tie, to talk about what may have been yet another attempt on his life. “Well, thank you very much,” he said. “That was very unexpected!” Moments before he walked out, the president…
The Trump administration on Friday dismissed members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation, which finances much of the public scientific research in the United States. On Friday afternoon, National Science Board members received a terse email “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump” that said their position was “terminated, effective immediately.”…
But few of his crypto actions have attracted as much attention or scrutiny as his memecoin. Unveiled three nights before the presidential inauguration in January 2025, $TRUMP emerged from a partnership between Mr. Trump and a longtime associate, the serial entrepreneur Bill Zanker. When the coins went on sale, the Trump family and its business…
When President Trump makes his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night, he will be addressing a roomful of people he spent the week attacking. Of all the moments for him to be socializing with the journalists who cover him, this one in particular makes for especially discordant timing. Hardly a week…
