Trump reckons with his third assassination attempt

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First Lady Melania Trump and U.S. President Donald Trump attend the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. The president is making his first appearance at the event which he has shunned in the past.
President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

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Business leaders, including Elon Musk and Dana White, react to the shooting at the DC press dinner

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President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after gunshots rang out.

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Lloyd Blankfein finds the bright side in shooting at press dinner: 'No one was killed, and ended early'

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Lloyd Blankfein was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when shots rang out.

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Trump seizes on press dinner shooting to push his stalled White House ballroom: 'It has every highest level security feature'

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A rendering of President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom, which is now stalled by legal challenges.

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The New York Times says this is why the shooting didn't make its Sunday edition

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News of the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night happened too late to make the Sunday morning edition of The New York Times.

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What we know about the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect

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The suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting was detained at the scene.

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'Trump administration officials' were targets of White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter, AG says

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President Donald Trump spoke from the White House after a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

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I was in the room when chaos erupted at DC's annual press dinner. Here's what I thought about the security.

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  • Senior Editor Tim Röhn was among the attendees at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
  • He described the fear and panic in the room after hearing someone shout, "Shots fired."
  • He was struck by how "lax" security was at the event throughout the evening.

Just after 8:30 p.m. on a Saturday night, chaos erupts in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Washington, and a wave of fear sweeps through the room. I am seated at one of roughly 200 tables when I suddenly hear dull, thudding sounds cutting through the loud music.

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