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https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/president-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner/507-915ff171-8a5a-4355-ba7d-2a2474559ca9

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after an unspecified threat.

There did not immediately appear to be any injuries. Both Trump and Vice President JD Vance were uninjured, an Associated Press source said.

The Secret Service and other authorities swarmed the banquet hall as guests ducked under tables by the hundreds. “Out of the way, sir!” someone yelled. Others yelled to duck.

People on scene reported there were "loud sounds" in the area, which prompted the response.

Attendees are still in the ballroom where the dinner was being held.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gunfire-persists-mali-town-un-urges-international-response-after-attacks-2026-04-26/
BAMAKO, April 26 (Reuters) - Mali's Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack by an al Qaeda affiliate on his residence near the main army base outside Bamako on Saturday, France's RFI radio and two relatives said on Sunday.

The operation in Kati, 15 km north of Bamako, was part of a wider assault by the affiliate, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), which cooperated with a Tuareg-dominated rebel group in what analysts and diplomats described as one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years.

A relative of Camara's told Reuters he had been killed, while a Malian journalist known to be a brother-in-law of the defence minister posted about his death on Facebook.

A spokesperson for Mali's defence ministry and a government spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment on Sunday. A statement by the armed forces said operations were continuing in various parts of the country to repel the insurgents.
A Reuters witness reported gunfire in Kati on Sunday morning.

The United Nations called for an international response to violence and terrorism in West Africa's Sahel region following Saturday's assault, for which authorities have not provided a death toll.

"The Secretary‑General is deeply concerned by reports of attacks in several locations across Mali. He strongly condemns these acts of violence," a U.N. spokesperson posted on X.

If confirmed, Camara's death would represent a major shock for Mali's military leaders, said Djenabou Cisse, associate fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), which specializes in West African security.

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-formally-reinstates-pro-republican-texas-voting-map-2026-04-27/
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court formally reinstated on Monday a redrawn Texas electoral map that was designed to add more Republicans to the U.S. House of Representatives, as President Donald Trump's party seeks to keep control of Congress in the November congressional elections.
The move by the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, formalizes an interim decision it made in December to revive the map of U.S. House districts in Texas.
The reinstated map - sought by Trump, approved in August 2025 by the Republican-led state legislature and signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott - could flip as many as five currently Democratic-held U.S. House seats to Republicans.
As they did in December, the court's three liberal justices dissented from Monday's ruling.
The Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision that had blocked Texas from using the map. The lower court had found the map to be likely racially discriminatory in violation of U.S. constitutional protections. Trump last year prodded Republican lawmakers to redraw state congressional maps to bolster his party's chances in the midterms.
The Supreme Court in February allowed California to use a new electoral map designed to give Democrats five more congressional seats after that Democratic-led state redrew its House districts in response to the action by Republicans in Texas.
Republicans currently hold slim majorities in both chambers of Congress. Ceding control of either the House or Senate to the Democrats in the upcoming elections would endanger Trump's legislative agenda and open the door to Democratic-led congressional investigations targeting the president.

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https://abcnews.com/Politics/judge-orders-trump-doj-justify-presidents-10b-irs/story?id=132365447
A federal judge is raising concerns about whether Donald Trump's attempt to sue the IRS for $10 billion can proceed, signaling she could throw out the case because the president oversees the government entities he is suing.

Judge Kathleen Williams raised the issue in an order on Friday denying a request to delay the case amid possible settlement talks.

She noted that Trump and the defendants -- the Treasury Department and IRS -- may not be "sufficiently adverse" to one another for the case to proceed.
"Moreover, although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction. Indeed, President Trump's own remarks about this matter acknowledge the unique dynamic of this litigation," she wrote.

Williams ordered both Trump's lawyers and the Department of Justice to submit briefs about why the case should proceed and set a hearing for next month. For the case to proceed, Trump's lawyers and the DOJ need to establish that the lawsuit is "a dispute between parties who face each other in an adversary proceeding."

"Typically, adverseness is found in a situation where one party is asserting its right and the other party is resisting," she noted.

But with Trump in charge of the very government entities he is suing, Williams noted that the required adverse relationship between the parties may not exist. She added that Trump has signed multiple executive orders tightening the president's control over the executive agencies like the Department of Justice.

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https://nypost.com/2026/04/25/us-news/indian-national-who-brutally-attacked-mom-and-daughter-is-illegal-immigrant-dhs-says/

An illegal migrant maniac allegedly high on a powerful drug chomped on a toddler’s face in Texas last week, two years after the Biden administration failed to kick him out of the country despite his arrest in an earlier violent assault, authorities told The Post.

The horrific April 18 attack in a San Antonio park left 3-year-old Amelia Perez with deep scratches and bite wounds across her face, two teeth knocked out, and life-changing trauma, her family said.

“That brute was ravaging my baby!” mom Gabriella Perez, 27, told The Post. “She’s terrified to sleep. She’s lashing out, angry. She doesn’t understand evil like this f–king man. She’ll never be the same again.”

That Saturday, the family — Perez, little Amelia, her father Xavier Estrada, 27, and grandfather Richard Ariaza — headed from their home in LaCoste to Espada Park for a quiet afternoon of fishing for the bass, catfish and sunfish.

At around 2 p.m., Gabriella took Amelia to the restroom, and when they stepped back outside, a man in a frenzied state charged toward them, said Perez.

The man, identified by authorities as Atharva Vyas, a 24-year-old illegal migrant from India, lunged, grabbed the mom’s hair and punched her in the jaw.

Perez quickly lowered her daughter to the ground to remove her from the fray, but the lunatic leapt on her child, she said.

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Trumps so awesome. Not scared or startled that a gunman appeared. It was an exciting event for those around him.

https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/dana-white/ufc-ceo-dana-white-reacts-to-correspondents-dinner-shooting-it-was-awesome/

“It just started getting noisy,” White said. “Tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns and they were screaming ‘get down!’ I didn’t get down. It was f*cking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience.

“We were sitting right in front of the table, right in front of where the president was,” he added. “Nobody got tackled, but guys came in looking for shooters, and they came toward our table. I thought the shooter was over by us or something.”

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Eat shit retards. I hope you get hit in the face with a brick and your party of pricks is burned to the ground.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner suspect sent a "manifesto" to his family. CBS News reviewed what's in it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-correspondents-dinner-suspect-manifesto-details/

The White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect wrote a "manifesto" that stated he planned to target Trump administration officials, "prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest," according to a copy obtained by CBS News.

Cole Allen, 31, Reddit moralfag driven insane by social media lunatics, wrote that law enforcement, hotel employees and guests weren't his intended targets but that he would still attack them to get to the administration, adding: "I really hope it doesn't come to that."

Allen charged a security checkpoint outside the dinner, armed with a shotgun, a handgun and knives, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. Mr. Trump and other administration officials were quickly escorted out of the event, which was canceled shortly thereafter.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that Allen's brother, alarmed by the email he and other family members received, called police in Connecticut to alert them Saturday night.

Authorities said they found other writings at his home in Torrance, California, and in his 10th-floor hotel room at the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the dinner was being held.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15d57pv925o
Oil prices have risen after plans for a second round of peace talks between the US and Iran stalled again.

Brent, the global benchmark, rose by around 2% to $109.33 (£80.72) a barrel, while US-traded crude also increased by 2% at $96.78.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Washington had cancelled plans to send a team to Pakistan for negotiations with their Iranian counterparts.

Global energy supplies have been under intense pressure since the start of the Iran war as the crucial Strait of Hormuz waterway has been effectively closed by the conflict.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that "important discussions on bilateral matters and regional developments" were ongoing with Oman, its neighbour along the strait.

He posted on social media: "Our focus included ways to ensure safe transit that is to benefit all dear neighbors and the world. Our neighbors are our priority."

Araghchi arrived in St Petersburg on Monday "with the aim of meeting and holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin", Iranian state-run news agency Irna reported.


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Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI).

The link seems obvious. Meta’s chief people officer, Janelle Gale, said the job cuts – about 10% of staff or almost 8,000 workers – serve to “offset the other investments we’re making”. Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has previously spoken about a “major AI acceleration” with spending in excess of US$115bn planned this year.

Microsoft is also betting big on AI. The company also just announced early retirement packages for about 7% of its US workforce.

The two tech giants join Atlassian, Block, WiseTech Global and Oracle, who have all made similar announcements this year, each evoking AI without outright blaming it.

What is happening here? How we understand these layoffs depends on what we think AI is, and what implications it will have. Broadly speaking, there are three ways of looking at it: that AI is superintelligence, that it’s mostly hype, and that it’s a useful tool.

https://theconversation.com/meta-and-microsoft-have-joined-the-tech-layoff-tsunami-but-is-ai-really-to-blame-281436

Do you still think the country can take 2 more years of this? We NEED to withdraw our troops from Iran NOW. But of course Donald Trump needs that oil, doesn't he?

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-blame-trump-gas-price-surge-midterm-election-year-reutersipsos-poll-2026-04-24/
A clear majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for surging gasoline prices, which is weighing on his Republican Party ahead of November's congressional midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Some 77% of registered voters in the poll, which concluded early this week, said Trump bears at least a fair amount of responsibility for the recent rise in gas prices, which was sparked by his decision to launch a war on Iran along with U.S. ally Israel.
The view was widely shared across the political spectrum, with 55% of Republican voters, 82% of independents and 95% of Democrats pinning blame on the president for the higher costs.
Some 58% of voters, including one in five Republicans and two-thirds of independents, said they would be less likely to support candidates in the November 3 midterms who support Trump's approach to the conflict with Iran.
The U.S. and Israel launched surprise attacks on Iran in February that killed the country's leader and thousands of Iranians. Tehran responded with attacks on U.S. allies in the region, damaging oil export facilities and shutting down roughly a fifth of the global oil trade. U.S. gasoline prices have risen to about $4 a gallon, a dollar more than before the war started.
The war is grinding on household finances and weighing on Republicans ahead of the midterm elections, when Trump's party faces what many see as an uphill battle to keep their U.S. House of Representatives majority. Risks are also rising that they lose control of the Senate.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-email-floats-suspending-spain-nato-other-steps-over-iran-rift-source-2026-04-24/
An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing the U.S. position on Britain's claim to the Falkland Islands, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The policy options are detailed in a note expressing frustration at some allies' perceived reluctance or refusal to grant the United States access, basing and overflight rights - known as ABO - for the Iran war, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the email.
The email stated that ABO is "just the absolute baseline for NATO," according to the official, who added that the options were circulating at high levels in the Pentagon.
One option in the email envisions suspending "difficult" countries from important or prestigious positions at NATO, the official said.
President Donald Trump has harshly criticized NATO allies for not sending their navies to help open the Strait of Hormuz, which was closed to global shipping following the start of the air war on February 28.
He has also declared he is considering withdrawing from the alliance.
"Wouldn't you if you were me?" Trump asked Reuters in an April 1 interview, in response to a question about whether the U.S. pulling out of NATO was a possibility.
But the email does not suggest that the United States do so, the official said. It also does not propose closing bases in Europe.
The official declined to say whether the options included a widely expected U.S. drawdown of some forces from Europe, however.

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Migrant encounter data: numbers remain low, though a spring uptick is likely
On March 20, just after WOLA published its most recent Border Update, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released data on migration and enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border through February 2026. It showed U.S. authorities’ encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border remaining near 60-year lows.

The sharp decline is the result of the Trump administration’s suspension of the right to seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, which remains before the federal courts, and a climate of fear that “mass deportation” operations have spread among migrants within the United States.

During the first five months of fiscal year 2026 (which began in October 2025), Border Patrol reported apprehending an average of 6,897 people per month near the U.S.-Mexico border. That is the lowest monthly average since 1966.

Despite this, a March 26 Federal Register notice from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proclaimed that “an actual or imminent mass influx of aliens is arriving at the southern border of the United States and presents urgent circumstances requiring a continued federal response.” That notice is “a legal trigger that expands federal authority, especially the ability to deputize state and local law enforcement under an ‘immigration emergency,’” immigration attorney Chris Thomas explained to Forbes.

Border Patrol’s apprehensions of migrants did increase in February, for the first time in five months, to 6,603 from 6,074 in January (9%). As has been the pattern since the Trump administration began, most of those apprehended were from Mexico (69%), and 88 percent were from Mexico or the three northernmost Central American countries (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador).

https://www.wola.org/2026/04/u-s-mexico-border-update-migration-data-dhs-shutdown-and-new-management-abuses-in-ice-custody-border-walls/

This is literally what happened in germany in the 1930s.

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More than half (67%) of adults ages 18-29 said if they had the option, they’d choose to live in the past, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey. One-third said they’d pick a time period less than 50 years in the past, while another 14% said they’d choose more than 50 years in the past. One thing they all have in common - Donald Trump was not president in the past.

Meanwhile, 38% of Gen Zers said they’d prefer to live in the present, 10% said they’d go less than 50 years in the future, and 5% chose more than 50 years in the future.

The results were largely consistent across gender lines and partisan divides, though young Black adults were less likely to say they’d prefer to live in the past (33%) than young white adults (52%) or young Hispanic adults (47%).

The broader sentiment underscores the negative outlook many young Americans feel about their future prospects and the state of Trump's country. The poll found that 72% of Gen Z respondents said they expect life will be worse for them compared to previous generations, compared to 25% who said it will be better and 13% who said it would be about the same.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/discomfort-modern-technology-gen-z-desire-live-past-poll-rcna340897

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April 23 (Reuters) - Former Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger is back at Thrive Capital, founder Josh Kushner said on Thursday.

"Bob leads with boldness and conviction because he knows what he is building and why. He is rejoining Thrive at a time when that kind of leadership matters most," Kushner said in a post on X.

Iger has taken an advisory role at Thrive, working with the firm's staff on investment decisions and advising founders of companies in Thrive's portfolio, according to the Wall Street Journal, which had reported the development earlier.

• Iger joined Thrive Capital as a venture partner in September 2022, advising on day-to-day initiatives including mentoring startup founders and identifying new investment opportunities.

• Iger first stepped down as Disney's CEO in 2020 after a 15‑year stint. He returned to run the company in November 2022 and stepped down from the role last month.

• He will remain on Disney's board until the end of the year.

• Thrive Capital, which invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies, raised $10 billion for its latest fund.

• Kushner, who is the brother of U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, founded Thrive in 2009.

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