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Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner attack is shaking up what was already going to be a grueling week for House GOP leaders. Here’s what we know. Speaker Mike Johnson, who was among those evacuated from the Washington Hilton, is moving ahead with votes on the three-year Section 702 extension on Tuesday, the immigration enforcement budget blueprint on Wednesday and the farm bill on Thursday. All three have been mired in internal GOP squabbles, and a rank-and-file hunger to respond to the WHCD shooting may create further complications. GOP hard-liners including Rep. Chip Roy are pushing for White House ballroom…

They met every requirement, but delays, opacity and ‘missed’ options shut Russian junior gymnasts out before they could compete The Russian junior group in rhythmic gymnastics will not be able to take part in the 2026 European Cup. The reason is unrelated to sporting results, injuries, or any decision by the athletes to withdraw.Participation became impossible because of prolonged administrative procedures connected with obtaining neutral status, followed by a refusal of registration by European Gymnastics. Young athletes who followed every rule were left out because of bureaucratic hurdles put up by different organizations that failed to coordinate.The Russian Gymnastics Federation…

During CNN’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner coverage on Saturday, CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter said there was “a moment of unity” after the shooting at the dinner and said, “One of the first people who checked on me inside the ballroom was Brendan Carr,” someone who Stelter said he’s been a critic of. Stelter said, “One of the first people who checked on me inside the ballroom was Brendan Carr, who is the Trump FCC Chairman. And some of you might know, I’ve been rather critical of some of Carr’s actions in the last year. But we were talking…

The IDF was trying to evacuate wounded troops from Lebanon when they came under another attack Hezbollah drones have killed an IDF soldier and targeted a helicopter sent to airlift wounded troops, as Israel ordered the forced evacuation of seven more towns in southern Lebanon.An Israeli unit operating in the occupied Lebanese border town of Taybeh came under attack on Sunday. The strike killed a 19-year-old soldier, identified as Sergeant Idan Fooks, and wounded six others, including four seriously, according to the IDF.When a helicopter was dispatched to airlift the wounded, two additional drones were launched toward the troops, according…

A report on the human rights situation in Gaza It was 93 degrees in Gaza on Wednesday, and the best that most survivors of Israel’s war there could manage was to find shade under a tent. The Israeli air force, unchallenged by anti-aircraft defenses, has damaged or destroyed 92 percent of the territory’s homes and apartment buildings, leaving the Palestinian survivors of the war lucky, but surely not grateful, to have a tent over their heads. The Israeli bombing of Gaza has now gone on for more than thirty months. It began immediately after Hamas’s attack on Israel of October…

The clock appears to be ticking on the scandal-ridden government of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, with half of the UK public believing he should resign, as controversy reigns over his decision to appoint Lord Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. With just two weeks to go before British voters will head to the polls for local elections across the country, Prime Minsiter Starmer and his left-wing Labour Party continue to struggle with convincing the public of their worth. According to a UK Political Pulse survey from Ipsos for broadcaster LBC, a survey of 2,262 British adults conducted earlier this…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said a Secret Service agent was shot in the bulletproof vest by the would-be murderer who attempted to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday night. Trump informed the press that the agent had been shot but is in “good spirits,” during a White House press briefing shortly after the event was canceled at the Washington Hilton hotel. “One officer was shot, but saved by the fact that he was wearing obviously a very good bulletproof vest,” Trump said. “He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun, and the vest…

“It could have been much worse … It was incredible to witness these highly trained experts spring into action,” evangelical leader Franklin Graham said in a late-night statement Saturday after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, DC. Graham, the president of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said: I was at the Washington Hilton tonight for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as the guest of NEWSMAX President Chris Ruddy, and Greta Van Susteren and her husband John Coale. We are still learning details, but I am grateful to God that…

Welcome to another grueling week in the House. A growing list of deadlines is bearing down on Speaker Mike Johnson as House Republicans try to push through an extension of an expiring government spy power Tuesday, a budget plan to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown Wednesday and a farm bill many members say is key to midterm victories Thursday. Each legislative undertaking is deeply complicated and rife with intraparty warfare — from a MAHA revolt over the farm bill to a rebellion from ultraconservatives who blocked Johnson’s last bid to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…

Tehran has proposed reopening the Strait of Hormuz first, and then focus on nuclear talks, according to the report Iran has made the US a new proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war – postponing nuclear negotiations to a later stage to break the deadlock in the high-stakes talks, Axios reports, citing sources.An unnamed US official and two other sources familiar with the matter told the outlet that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi mentioned the plan during back-to-back visits to Islamabad, informing the Pakistani, Egyptian, Turkish, and Qatari mediators that Iran’s leadership has no internal consensus…