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What happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. There were a few tense moments at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner this evening when gunshots were heard outside the ballroom where President Trump and other administration officials were sitting with journalists. NPR's Tamara Keith was there.
We were inside the ballroom in the basement of the Washington Hilton. The dinner, the White House Correspondents Association dinner, was just beginning with the president and the vice president up on stage. Then we heard a burst of what sounded like gunfire. It did not sound like it was in the room.
Then security personnel, including many heavily armed security personnel, rushed in, tactical team getting the president out, the vice president, and many members of the cabinet, as well as the speaker of the House, who was also in the line of presidential succession.
President Trump is speaking from the White House right now. He said one Secret Service agent was shot in the attack, but he was wearing a vest and was not seriously injured. So far, there are no other reported injuries. President Trump Saturday once again canceled plans to send negotiators to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran. That news quickly reached Israel.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more from Tel Aviv.
The announcement came as Israelis demonstrated against Benjamin Netanyahu in central Tel Aviv. One of the protesters, 55-year-old Danny Cohen, says it's a real dilemma.
Because on the one hand, it's clear that Iran and Hezbollah are building their powers and declaring their intention He says the lesson of the October 7 Hamas attack was not to let your enemies get too strong. Cohen says he doesn't know what will happen, but he trusts the U.S.
government more than his own. Eleanor Beardsley in PR News, Tel Aviv.
Israel, meanwhile, says it will strike Lebanon with force, targeting Hezbollah despite the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Time is running out for registering to vote in this year's primary elections in some states, as NPR's Hansi Lowong reports. Those states are preparing to hold their primaries next month.
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