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Bystander Wounded in White House Shooting Is in Stable Condition
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating to determine who shot the bystander, who underwent surgery, and how many bullets were fired.
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Secret Service kills man who opened fire at White House security checkpoint
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The U.S. Secret Service says officers shot and killed a person who opened fire at a security checkpoint on Saturday. Five senior law enforcement officials say the suspect had a history of mental health concerns. NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin reports.
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Gunman who opened fire near White House was known to Secret Service
Suspect who died after exchanging fire with agents had tried to enter the complex last summer, records showA gunman who opened fire outside the White House on Saturday before he was shot by federal agents was already known to the US Secret Service, court records show.The man, 21, was taken to a nearby hospital, before he was later pronounced dead. He had previously tried to enter the complex, according to an affidavit filed in DC superior court in 2025, following an arrest nearby. Continue reading...
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Dems laughed at a once-dismissed theory — now it's their secret weapon for midterms: Axios
When Rep. Ro Khanna began pushing to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, his own party thought he was wasting everyone's time."The establishment class thought I was crazy," Khanna told Axios. "They said nobody would care. Nobody would vote based on it."They were wrong. With midterm elections approaching, Democrats across the country are pouring money into ads tying their Republican opponents to Epstein — betting that Trump's continued refusal to release the files has left a wound that voters haven't forgotten."What they missed," Khanna said, "is that Epstein goes to the core of what people hate about Washington: a rigged system where the rich and powerful play by different rules."The clearest sign of how seriously Democrats are taking the issue: in Ohio's hotly contested Senate race, every single ad that veteran Democrat Sherrod Brown has aired this year has been an Epstein ad. Brown has spent nearly $1.5 million attacking freshman GOP Sen. Jon Husted over donations he accepted from Leslie Wexner, a financial client of Epstein's. Husted's campaign says it has donated those funds to an anti-human trafficking charity — and has noted that Brown himself previously accepted donations from Wexner's wife.The stakes are highest in Maine, where Democrat Graham Platner is running in what both parties consider a must-win race for Senate majority control. In a six-figure TV ad, Platner accuses Republican Sen. Susan Collins of selling out voters to "the president and to the Epstein class," as footage of Epstein and Trump plays on screen.In Georgia — one of Republicans' best pickup opportunities this cycle — Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has made "the Epstein class" a centerpiece of his stump speech and media appearances, arguing it captures the broader corruption of the Trump era. The phrase has drawn some criticism as a potential antisemitic dog whistle, though that charge has been disputed — and notably, Ossoff himself is Jewish.Democrats and allied groups have also aired Epstein-linked ads in Wisconsin, Tennessee, and New Mexico, where the issue has even spilled into an intraparty fight: in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, an outside group ran ads falsely linking former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to Epstein — ads a local news station rated "false and misleading."Republicans are pushing back. RNC spokesperson Kiersten Pels accused Democrats of "cynical political theater," pointing to the party's own historical ties to Epstein donors. "The same party now trying to weaponize Epstein to distract from their own failed policies spent years cashing Epstein-linked checks," she said.Whether the strategy will work remains an open question. Despite Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie's bipartisan push to release the files, Massie was unable to turn Epstein into a winning issue in his own GOP primary — and was defeated last week after being targeted by Trump's political machine.But Democrats say the general electorate is a different audience entirely. And Khanna, for one, is no longer being laughed at, according to Axios.
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Here’s which retailers, grocery stores and pharmacies are open and closed on Memorial Day
In case you need to make that last-minute (rainy) run.
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From rally gunfire to White House shooting, threats against President Trump continue to mount
The White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting is the latest in a growing series of security threats and incidents involving President Donald Trump.
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Trump, Iran near deal on re-opening Strait of Hormuz
The Trump administration and Iran have agreed to the basic terms of a deal that would re-open the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that has been blocked, leading to high gas prices in the U.S. and around the world. A number of details appear yet to be worked out, but multiple reports suggest a…
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Mike Johnson accused of abruptly killing key vote to end war: 'We had the votes'
House Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a war powers resolution from the floor after Democrats secured enough Republican support to pass it, according to Rep. Greg Meeks — a stunning allegation that Johnson personally intervened to prevent Congress from reining in Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran."We had the votes to stop this war," Meeks told MS NOW on Saturday. "And he pulled it and said we have to look at voting for it when we get back, after the memorial recess."Meeks, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he had assembled a bipartisan coalition sufficient to pass the war powers resolution — which would have asserted congressional authority over Trump's ongoing conflict with Iran — before Johnson abruptly removed it from consideration.The move echoes a pattern that has played out repeatedly under Johnson's speakership: bills with genuine bipartisan support quietly disappearing from the schedule when they threaten to embarrass Trump or constrain his power.The allegation comes as the Senate has separately been wrestling with its own war powers debate. A handful of Republican senators have broken with Trump over the Iran conflict, and a companion effort in the upper chamber was similarly stalled.Meeks framed Johnson's intervention as a deliberate act of protection for Trump rather than a procedural delay."They know," Meeks said, referring to Republican leadership's awareness of shifting sentiment within their own caucus. "That's why they're playing games all over this country."
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War Powers Vote Is the Latest Embarrassment for House Speaker Mike Johnson
Johnson is seemingly incapable of standing up to the Trump administration, even when one of Congress' core responsibilities is at stake.
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