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Correspondents’ Dinner was interrupted by loud bangs on Saturday evening, followed by immediate commotion. [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) and Melania Trump were evacuated immediately as many journalists and their guests across the room ducked
Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night is believed to have been targeting members of the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration), the acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Sunday morning. Blanche
Correspondents’ Association dinner was a tray falling, in his first remarks about what was going through his mind as the incident unfolded. “Actually, it was totally shocking to me, and that never changes,” Trump said
Correspondents’ Association dinner when shots rang out. A gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton hotel Saturday night, though he did not breach the basement-level ballroom where Trump was sitting at the time
Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner as [guests dived for cover](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-covering-trump) under tables. The chaotic events raised fresh questions about the security of top officials, many of whom were gathered in the hotel
correspondents’ dinner](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting) retained his table manners and was spotted calmly tucking into his salad course on Saturday, soon after gunfire rang out and heavily armed [Secret Service](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/secret-service) agents swarmed
Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., in Torrance, California, U.S., April 25, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/reuters_69edb12a-1777185066.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C514&quality=80) People in the neighbourhood look on as police stand on the corner outside the residence associated with
Correspondents' Association Dinner](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/27/nx-s1-5801476/whca-dinner-security-secret-service-president-trump) Allen allegedly ran through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton where the dinner was underway on April 25 and fired a shotgun at the agent. Allen has been
happening” at the hotel and maintained it was “just not a secure place to hold big events”. Hinckley’s voice was perhaps an unconventional addition to the growing chorus [posing questions about the level
happens before you even publish. That is a massive challenge for us. “Increasingly it is the case that before you even get to publication, lawsuits come raining down on you – a whole torrent of legal
Correspondents' Association dinner. The Secret Service officer also fired five times on the suspect as he charged, authorities said, but did not strike him. "There's this insatiable public interest in the case, pressure
Correspondents’ Association dinner was [targeting Trump](/news/2026/4/26/trump-his-administration-likely-targets-at-media-dinner-us-official) and members of his administration. The suspect — who was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives — rushed a US Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton
Correspondents Dinner](https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/26/402293168/7-obama-jokes-that-stood-out-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner) "For magic to work, you have to do something which seems impossible," he says. "And when technology makes certain things possible, you have to do something else." That "something else
happening on day 58 as Tehran-Washington talks stall? Prospects for a [diplomatic breakthrough](/news/liveblog/2026/4/26/iran-war-live-tehran-rejects-talks-under-siege-trump-cancels-envoys-trip) in the US-Israeli war with Iran appear to have dimmed, with negotiations to end the two-month conflict stalled
Correspondents’ Association dinner was targeting US President Donald Trump and members of his administration, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says. Blanche said on Sunday that authorities believe the suspect travelled from California to Washington
correspondents’ dinner was expected to appear in federal court to face criminal charges on Monday. The alleged shooter, identified by law enforcement agencies as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrance
correspondent, ***Aamna Mohdin***, who has been on the ground in Golders Green. But first, the headlines. ## Five big stories 1. ***Iran*** | Iran’s supreme leader has broken his recent silence with a [defiant statement
Correspondents’ Association gala dinner on Saturday evening. Trump has long called for prosecuting his political opponents and has set his sights, in particular, on Comey, who oversaw the early days of an investigation into whether
correspondents’ dinner had](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/white-house-press-dinner-shooting-suspect-court), according to the FBI, written that “I am no longer willing to permit a paedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes”. Cole Tomas Allen