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Shots fired as gunman charges toward ballroom at White House correspondents’ dinner. Trump unharmed
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was uninjured and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after an unspecif...

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Momentum builds to reschedule White House Correspondents’ Dinner after shooting
White House correspondents' dinner shooting suspect on suicide precautions, lawyers say
Secret Service 'model worked' during WHCA Dinner shooting, but 'luck' played a role, experts say
Cole Allen, 31, is facing federal charges of attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transporting a firearm across state lines and discharging a firearm during a crime of violenc...

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Trump touts ‘golden age’ for seniors in the friendly territory of The Villages
Trump says Secret Service agent was not shot by friendly fire
New review of Trump security underway after WHCD
Saturday’s attack, in which a man armed with guns and knives tried to storm the Washington hotel ballroom where the president was set to address the White House Correspondents’ Association, comes ahea...

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Video released of man suspected in gala attack
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Trump and Secret Service director say agent at dinner was not shot by friendly fire

Attempted White House dinner assassin seeks to downgrade from prison suicide precautions

Allen was assigned a "safe cell," described as a padded room with 24-hour lockdown procedures. Attorneys for the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at a black-tie press

Sen. Chuck Grassley, 92, skipped White House Correspondents’ Dinner to protect line of succession — was briefly 3rd to assume US presidency

Sen. Chuck Grassley gave the White House Correspondents’ Dinner a hard pass, staying home to protect the line of succession from catastrophe. The 92-year-old Iowa Republican is third in line to the presidency — the Senate’s president pro tempore is behind only the vice president and speaker of the House — and the highest-ranking person in the succession to skip Saturday night’s near-tragic shindig.

Man accused of trying to kill Trump at correspondents’ gala agrees to remain jailed for now

The man who authorities say tried to storm Association dinner with guns and knives and tried to kill President Donald Trump will appear Thursday in court as a judge decides whether Cole Tomas Allen will remain behind bars while awaiting trial.

Democrats use White House ballroom push to slam GOP on affordability

Democrats are hitting the White House over the optics of pushing a ballroom in the wake of the White House Correspondents dinner shooting, saying it’s out of touch with most Americans struggling