Apr 24 Watch 5:53 Soldier's arrest over Polymarket bet on Maduro raid fuels insider trading concerns By Amna Nawaz, Liz Landers, Doug Adams A Special Forces soldier who helped plan the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was indicted for allegedly using classified information about the raid to make prediction market bets. It is raising new concerns about insider trading and the need… Continue watching
Apr 24 Watch 11:22 Brooks and Capehart on the partisan redistricting battle By Geoff Bennett, Ali Schmitz David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the Justice Department dropping its probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell after admitting it lacked evidence, voters in Virginia… Continue watching
Apr 24 WATCH: Gunfire outside ballroom disrupts White House Correspondents' Dinner with Trump in attendance By Seung Min Kim, Aamer Madhani, Alanna Durkin, David Bauder, Associated Press, Colin Brinkley, Associated press After an initial attempt to resume, the event was scrapped for the night and will be rescheduled. Continue reading
Apr 24 4 things to watch at the White House Correspondents' Dinner By Liz Landers Donald Trump is attending the annual event for the first time as president. Continue reading
Apr 24 Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact President Donald Trump has regularly said that drug-price discounts on his watch are greater than 100%, which isn’t mathematically possible. Now his health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is trying to back up his faulty math. Continue reading
Apr 24 6 times the White House Correspondents' Dinner served up memorable moments By Bill Barrow, Associated Press Here’s a look at some of that history as Donald Trump prepares for the first time to attend as president. Continue reading
Apr 24 WATCH: Trump dispatching Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for new Iran talks, White House says By Munir Ahmed, Jon Gambrell, Jamey Keaten, Associated Press The talks planned for Saturday come as much of the world is on edge over a war that has snarled crucial energy exports through the Strait of Hormuz, clouded the global economic picture and left thousands dead across the Middle… Continue reading
Apr 24 Trump's asylum ban at the border is illegal, appeals court says By Associated Press A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that immigration laws give people the right to apply for asylum at the border, and the president can’t circumvent that. Continue reading
Apr 24 Justice Department drops criminal probe of Fed chair Powell, likely clearing way for Warsh confirmation By Christopher Rugaber, Eric Tucker, Associated Press The decision ends an investigation, one of several undertaken by the Justice Department into President Donald Trump’s perceived adversaries, that for months had failed to gain traction as prosecutors struggled to articulate a basis to suspect criminal conduct. Continue reading
Apr 24 Congress keeps holding all-nighters. Lawmakers say it's a symptom of dysfunction By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press It's a scenario that is playing out again and again as the House and the Senate fracture and careen from one crisis to the next. Continue reading