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Suspect charged with attempted assassination of Trump at Washington dinner 16 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleShaimaa Khalil and Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu,in court in Washington DCandRegan Morris,in Torrance, CaliforniaA shotgun, a handgun and three knives: Inside Washington gunman’s court appearanceA California man has been charged with attempting to assassinate US President Donald Trump after trying to storm a gala event with weapons on Saturday night.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, was also charged with two firearms offences when he appeared in court in Washington DC on Monday. He did not enter a plea.
He was carrying a semi-automatic handgun, a pump-action shotgun and three knives as he charged past a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday, say prosecutors. The incident has sparked a White House security review.
A Secret Service agent was shot but not seriously wounded during the attack at a hotel. The accused faces life in prison i..

US political violence generates a familiar cycle – this time it's in overdrive17 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleAnthony ZurcherNorth America correspondentTrump: How shooting at White House correspondents' dinner unfoldedFor many in the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night, the scene was painfully familiar. Shots fired, confusion and panic, and a sense that the normal order of things had been violently interrupted.
Erika Kirk, whose husband, the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed last September, was in tears. Congressman Steve Scalise, majority leader in the House of Representatives who suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting at a baseball practice with Republican teammates in 2017, was escorted out by security.
So was Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who lost his father and uncle to assassin's bullets.
Many journalists in attendance had been at the 2024 rally in Butler, Penn..

Pakistan accused of attacking Afghan university56 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleGabriela PomeroyBBC NewsEPATaliban security forces (file image)Pakistani jet and drone attacks on the east Afghan province of Kunar have killed at least seven people and injured 75, among whom are students and a professor at Kunar University, multiple sources have told the BBC.
According to the Taliban government, 30 of the injured are university students.
Pakistan's information ministry denied attacking the university and residential areas, saying the reports were fake.
Reports of the Kunar attacks come several weeks after a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital Kabul which, according to the UN, is now known to have killed 269 people.
A professor who was teaching at Kunar University told the BBC he had heard terrifying explosions across the university campus.
A statement from Afghanistan's higher education ministry said the university'..

Trump says King will be 'very safe' during US visit after security talks7 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSean Coughlan,Royal correspondent, Washington DCandSean SeddonYui Mok / PA ArchiveTrump and the King were pictured interacting amicably at many points in Trump's state visit to the UK in SeptemberDonald Trump has said King Charles III will “be very safe” during his state visit to the US, which is due to begin later on Monday.
Further security talks took place between the White House and Buckingham Palace after a gunman gained access to an event attended by Trump in Washington DC on Saturday.
Asked about the security implications for the royal visit, the US president told CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday that the grounds of the White House, where King Charles will visit, are “really safe”.
The King and Queen's programme will go ahead largely as planned, Buckingham Palace said, with the UK government hoping it could ease diplomatic tensions.
The UK'..

I was in the room with Trump and heard the low thudding sound of gunfire12 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleGary O'DonoghueChief North America correspondent at the Washington HiltonWatch: 'You just didn't know': Gary O'Donoghue shares confusion and fearsI had just put my knife and fork down, and almost didn't notice the booming sounds coming from somewhere in front of me in the direction of the main entrance to the ballroom at the Washington Hilton.
I did a kind of audio double take.
Within moments, I thought – that is the low thudding sound that semi-automatic weapons make.
As someone who is blind I focus on the sounds, and I heard the shattering of glass.
Then I felt the head of my colleague, Daniel, who I had just been speaking to, brush past and I realised he was diving for the floor.
So I followed him.
I was on my knees, under the table cloth, almost certain that here I was, another Saturday night, another presidential event, and in the m..

Trump cancels US envoys' trip to Pakistan for talks on Iran war19 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleJessica RawnsleyReutersKushner and Witkoff had been expected to fly to PakistanDonald Trump cancelled a planned trip by US officials to Pakistan for talks on the Iran war on Saturday, shortly after Tehran's delegation had left Islamabad.
The US president said special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner would be wasting “too much time”, adding that if Iran wanted to talk “all they have to do is call”.
Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi held talks with mediator Pakistan, saying afterwards he had shared Iran's position on ending the war but was yet to see whether the US was “truly serious about diplomacy”.
Diplomatic efforts have stalled despite Trump's extension of a ceasefire that had been due to expire on 22 April to allow talks to continue.
Both sides have been locked in a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran restricting p..