Washington in shock after White House press dinner shooting: ‘an angry, polarized nation’
US Capitol, two [assassination](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/trump-attempted-assassination-florida-life-sentence) [attempts](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donald-trump-pennsylvania-rally-shooting) against Trump, and the [killings](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/democratic-lawmakers-minnesota-shot) of the former Minnesota house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the rightwing activist [Charlie