WATCH: Newly released video shows the moment an armed suspect pushes through security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in an apparent assassination attempt.
Presidents use state visits to show off all that is appealing about American culture. But the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner has cast a shadow over the visit.
The Justice Department is pressing the White House to drop the lawsuit over President Trump’s ballroom proposal in the wake of Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. NewsNation’s Brooke Shafer reports.
The first indications that something had gone wrong at the 2026 White House Correspondents' Association dinner came around 8:35 p.m. on Saturday from a series of audible but mysterious thuds.
The gunman did not make it inside the hotel ballroom where President Trump, top officials and hundreds of journalists had gathered for dinner.
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