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the House floor is frozen as Mike Johnson deals with several GOP revolts so naturally it is a perfect day for the King of England to visit

SCOOP: Some members of DC’s elite Metropolitan Club have a message for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: We don’t want you. At least six have written to its board to oppose his bid to join the club, saying he’s too polarizing and has politicized DOJ. politico.com/news/2026/04/2…

It's never a good idea to call a reporter a "disgrace." Mike Bloomberg did it at least 3x, to the chagrin of his press staff, and each to an excellent reporter. One in a wheelchair dropped a recorder that hit play upon landing, and had difficulty reaching it. Another characterized an assertion of his, saying "you maintain...," about which the mayor felt insulted. msn.com/en-us/news/pol…

This is Mo -- Mohaimen Aljasheme. A C-SPAN photog. This picture was taken moments before the dinner started. Mo never stopped shooting video from inside the Hilton ballroom -- first showing President Trump and then the audience. Mo is a veteran photographer from the Iraq War.

Serious questions need to be answered on security of the White House Correspondents Dinner following this shooting.

Video from inside WH Correspondents Dinner with Trump moments after shooter -- SWAT & Secret Service

Standing on 17th next to Sean Spicer, a former White House press secretary during Trump’s first term, who said of the upcoming press briefing: “It will be a rowdy press conference if they’re [reporters] are all hammered!”

The whca dinner is one of the most guarded and secured dinners of the entire year. Multiple security screenings at multiple levels of the hotel. Shocked a gun could even get close

Four minutes in immediate aftermath shooting at the Hilton — as Trump and top officials get escorted out and attendees duck under the table. From my phone:

Video posted from President Trump which appears to be security footage from tonight’s event.

Here’s a video of Secret Service trying desperately to get through the crowd just moments after shots rang out at tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“They’re asking him a lot of questions,” Trump says of the shooter, who he described as a “sick person” and a “lone wolf.”

The moment President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents dinner after loud noises were heard.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer describes the incident where he started hearing gun shots near him and a police officer threw Blitzer to the ground: They got the gunman who had a major weapon.

We will provide updates as they become available and confirm information. Our teams are on the ground assessing the situation and investigating. All of our protectees are safe.

NEW: EXCLUSIVE images via a @scrippsnews @EWScrippsCo staffer showing the suspected gunman at the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner tackled to the ground by Secret Service at the Washington Hilton.

At Iran’s border with Turkey this week, we observed a telling trend: Iranians buying large bottles of cooking oil before crossing back into their country. It’s a signal of the spiraling inflation that has pressured millions of Iranian households nytimes.com/2026/04/25/wor…

Unless he’s joking, that’s quite something considering that he has been in active litigation with the AP (over the Gulf of America ban)

HUGE NEWS for editors: the AP has changed its style guide. It's now "healthcare" (not "health care") and "childcare" (not "child care") apstylebook.com/ap_stylebook/h…

"I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information."