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[ad_1] The man who attacked Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was targeting “administration officials,” including President Donald Trump, according to a note he left in a hotel room before the incident. Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrance, California, was tackled and taken into custody after he stormed a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton, the hotel where the event was being held. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. The White House shared a security video of the incident shortly after it unfolded on…

[ad_1] Deadlock and Attrition Starting a big war in the Middle East is much easier than stopping it. This is the lesson President Trump is now learning. After one month of dropping bombs and launching missiles at Iran, Trump has called for a time out. A proposed one-month ceasefire. He even put a 15-point peace plan on the table. It was delivered via intermediaries in Pakistan. The proposal included a comprehensive off-ramp to address everything from nuclear disarmament and missile limits to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran quickly put a match to it and countered with five conditions of its own – including…

[ad_1] Today, the Supreme Court issued a very unusual order in a very unusual case. In late November, a three-judge panel found that Texas’s redistricting plan was motivated by race. Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee in Galveston, joined (and likely wrote) the majority opinion. Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan appointee in Houston, wrote a blistering dissent. It began: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!” Indeed, this night would be very bumpy. Texas Solicitor General Will Peterson sought an emergency stay of the preliminary injunction with the Supreme Court. On December 4, the Supreme Court granted…

[ad_1] Florida is experiencing one of its worst droughts in decades, causing widespread wildfires and evacuation orders in large swaths of the state. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis recently offered a possible silver lining. “They do say, that when you have droughts, that the hurricane seasons tend to be less active,” DeSantis said at an April 22 event in Jacksonville. “I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t know if that’s an old wives’ tale. I don’t know if there’s data to back it up, but people do say that, and so I guess we shall see what that means for…

[ad_1] This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the media coverage that followed. They examine the shooter’s manifesto, why it struck some observers as uncomfortably normal, and what that says about the mainstreaming of extreme political rhetoric. The panel also considers President Donald Trump’s renewed push to build his new White House ballroom in the aftermath of the attack. Next, the editors turn to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan for city-run grocery stores, whether government-backed supermarkets can fairly compete with private businesses, and why critics may have…

[ad_1] The Correspondents’ Dinner was a big night for men who use the word ‘vehicle,’ writes Suzy Weiss. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Iran sent a proposal to the US that would bring the war to an end and allow ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials sent the new proposal to the US via Pakistan. Tehran’s deal includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for Washington ending its blockade and war against Iran.  The proposal, which Axios first reported on Sunday, would leave significant issues such as US sanctions and Iran’s nuclear enrichment program to be resolved at a later date. The White House is expected to reject the proposal as President Donald Trump sees the…

[ad_1] Jonathan Capehart: Before Saturday, I had never personally experienced a shooting event like this. Yet I intuitively knew what to do. Drop to the floor. Get under the table. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] It’s a common, misleading refrain in anti-vaccine circles: Childhood vaccines may be unsafe because few if any have been tested in placebo-controlled trials before being approved. But that claim misunderstands the vaccine safety testing process and takes advantage of a narrow definition of a placebo, scientists told us. “Not a single childhood vaccine on the schedule has ever been through a double-blind placebo-based trial prior to licensure,” Del Bigtree, a prominent activist with ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said at a March 9 conference that billed itself as being about a “massive epidemic” of vaccine harm. “It…

[ad_1] ABC Should Take a Stand on Kimmel After Widow Joke [ad_2] Source link