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The Most Frightening Shooters Are the Smart Ones
The line “I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done” could probably have been written in an email to friends by any number of the attendees at last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But the line was apparently written by a man who showed up with a shotgun and pistol and was ready
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Anze Kopitar’s stellar NHL career comes to an end in Kings’ playoff loss to Avalanche
Seven times in the past 12 seasons the Kings have advanced to the Stanley Cup playoffs, only to leave after the first round. They’ve changed coaches five times, general managers twice, even the team captains have changed over that span. But the results have not. The latest flameout came Sunday when the Colorado Avalanche rode
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Outrage as security protocol for Trump’s press dinner questioned: ‘Makes no sense at all’
Political analysts and observers were outraged after new details from the investigation into the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner were revealed. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s administration did not designate the dinner as a “National Security Event,” which would have increased security around the Washington Hilton, in advance
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WHCD Suspect Called Himself ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ in His Anti-Trump Manifesto
The man accused of firing shots at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner referred to himself as a “Friendly Federal Assassin” in messages sent to his family moments before the attack, the AP reported on Sunday. Authorities are approaching the writings as “some of the clearest evidence yet of the suspect’s mindset and possible motives.” The
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Tinder Scanning Users’ Eyeballs to Prove They Aren’t Creeps
Tinder is partnering with Sam Altman’s World project to let its users prove they’re real humans, in just about the creepiest way possible: scanning their eyeballs with a Cyclops-looking orb. The initiative, carried out by Altman’s startup Tools for Humanity, was announced last Friday, and represents a major foray for the biometric verification startup, which
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‘Summer House’ Reunion Audio Was Leaked by Member of Production, Bravo Finds
Bravo has concluded its investigation into the leaked audio from the “Summer House” Season 10 reunion, determining that it was an individual involved with production who was responsible — and not a member of the cast. “An investigation into the recent leak of the ‘Summer House’ reunion audio has concluded that the audio was an
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Russia suspected of sweeping Signal hack attack on German officials
Russia allegedly launched a wide-scale phishing attack through the Signal app targeting Germany’s high-profile politicians, diplomats and military officers. While the exact number of victims is unclear, German media estimates that at least 300 accounts belonging to political figures were targeted, with even several cabinet members affected, according to the German Press Agency, dpa. “The
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We Cannot Harden the World Against Every Attacker
Except for what appears—thank God—to be only a minor injury to a Secret Service officer who was shot near a security checkpoint, no one was hurt at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night. News reports are reassembling the mosaic of the attacker’s movements; he apparently took a train and transported some weapons with
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Despite Iran tensions, King Charles will follow his mother’s lead in celebrating U.S.-U.K. bonds
LONDON — The challenge for King Charles III as he arrives in the United States this week is, as always, to live up to his mother’s example. The late Queen Elizabeth II wowed Congress in 1991 with a speech that celebrated the shared democratic traditions of Britain and the United States, quoted Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide. But congressional appropriators — who rebuffed similar efforts to gut the agency in fiscal 2026 — expressed little enthusiasm for the proposed cut in interviews with