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President Trump struck a conciliatory tone with the press Saturday after a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, forcing him to scrap a speech in which he promised to be "rough" on reporters.

President Trump praised the Secret Service for taking down a gunman who fired several shots inside the Washington Hilton, where Mr. Trump and most of his Cabinet were sitting in the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

President Trump is addressing reporters at the White House after he and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after a shooting incident outside the ballroom.

President Trump said "let the show go on," but listened to the Secret Service who abruptly whisked him away from the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington after a shooter fired off half a dozen rounds outside the ballroom.

Shots were fired Saturday night outside the main ballroom of the White House Correspondents' Dinner just as the dinner got underway.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration not to deport the wife and five children of suspected firebomber Mohamed Sabry Soliman after attorneys said they were rearrested hours after their return to Colorado.

Three race-based scholarships were removed from the American Medical Association Foundation's website after critics called for an Internal Revenue Service probe into whether the awards violate the organization's tax-exempt status.

Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned her House seat before she could face an expulsion vote for misappropriating pandemic relief funding, but that doesn't mean her political career is over.

A California winery co-owned by Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband was formally terminated last month, weeks after House Republicans opened an inquiry into a dramatic swing in the Minnesota Democrat's reported household wealth.

President Trump announced that he has called off plans for U.S. negotiators to travel to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran, saying that if the Iranians want to deal, they can pick up the phone.