White House journalists’ gala ended like many US events do: with gun violence | White House correspondents’ dinner shooting

Ahead of this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner, conversations centered on the role of the media and freedom of the press as journalists prepared to dine with the president. Instead of a speech stacked with heated barbs against the media, the event ended like many in the US do: with gun violence. A man was…

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Acting attorney general says suspect in White House press dinner shooting was likely targeting Trump administration officials | White House correspondents’ dinner shooting

The gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration, the acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Sunday morning. Blanche also said officials believe that the suspect traveled by train from…

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Voters contend with ‘grotesque’ leaflets and ‘dodgy’ data in English elections | Local elections 2026

Election leaflets are providing “grotesque” information about how to vote tactically in the May elections, using national polling data, “dodgy” bar charts and doorstep surveys to support claims about parties’ chances of winning. Leaflets distributed by local politicians across England are claiming that either only their party can win, or another party “can’t win here”…

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