The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner also shot a Secret Service agent’s bulletproof vest, according to NBC News.  Cole Thomas Allen, 31, was armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives when he charged through a security checkpoint inside the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the event was being held. One floor above the ballroom packed with government officials and reporters, Allen discharged one of his weapons, hitting a Secret Service agent in the vest, NBC reported on Wednesday. Some early reports indicated the agent may have been hit by friendly fire. The Secret Service agent was released from the hospital over the weekend. Federal authorities have charged Allen with discharging a weapon, but he has not been separately charged with assaulting a federal officer. Investigators are continuing to review digital evidence, including computers from Allen’s California home and devices recovered from his hotel room, a law enforcement source told NBC. The Daily Wire reported Wednesday that Allen tracked Trump’s movements online and arming himself for the occasion, according to documents filed by the Justice Department. A photo included in the filings shows items laid out in Allen’s hotel room at the Washington Hilton, including what prosecutors identified as an ammunition bag, shoulder hoster, sheathed knife, and tools. Credit: DOJ According to the documents, Allen monitored live coverage of Trump’s arrival at the event shortly before the attack. At about 8:30 p.m., Allen left his hotel room and made his way toward the event. As he approached a security checkpoint, he threw off a long black coat that concealed his shotgun, then charged through the checkpoint and headed toward a staircase leading to the ballroom. “Had the defendant achieved his intended outcome, he would have brought about one of the darkest days in American history,” prosecutors wrote. Allen faces charges of attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transporting a firearm and ammunition across state lines with intent to commit a felony, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

A newly approved Florida congressional map could eliminate up to four Democratic-held seats ahead of the November midterm elections, intensifying a nationwide redistricting fight. Florida Republicans, who hold supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature, passed the map on Wednesday over loud liberal opposition, sending it to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk. DeSantis is expected to sign the bill.  The redrawn districts target Democratic seats in the Tampa, Orlando, and South Florida areas, aiming to flip them to Republican control. Democrats currently hold seven of Florida’s 28 districts.  Under the plan, Florida Democratic Reps. Kathy Castor, Darren Soto, Jared Moskowitz, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz could face significantly tougher re-election fights.  If enacted, the map would reflect the Sunshine State’s broader political shift in recent years. Once a swing state that backed Barack Obama twice, Florida has moved decisively to the Right, with Republicans now holding a roughly 1.5 million-voter registration advantage. “Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we’ve been fighting for fair representation ever since,” DeSantis told Fox News Digital. “Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited.” The push to redraw Florida’s map coincides with a bombshell Supreme Court ruling sharply limiting the use of race in congressional redistricting.  In a 6-3 decision, the court struck down Louisiana’s map, which included two majority-black districts, as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Writing for the conservative majority, Justice Samuel Alito said the Constitution generally forbids race-based line drawing absent a compelling justification. Wednesday’s ruling clears the way for other states with majority-minority districts to change course. New maps in states including Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee could net Republicans as many as 12 seats in Congress, according to a New York Times analysis.  Democrats decried the decision as an attack on democracy, despite pursuing partisan gerrymandering in California and, more recently, Virginia.  “Now we’re now at a point where affirmative action is gone, diversity is gone, equity gone, inclusion gone, racial tolerance gone, the Voting Rights Act largely gone, but guess what, extremists, we’re still here, and we’re not going anywhere,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said. Hakeem Jeffries: “We’re now at a point where affirmative action is gone, diversity is gone, equity is gone, inclusion is gone…” pic.twitter.com/4b9Bm7KNwy — TheBlaze (@theblaze) April 29, 2026 Florida’s map is likely to face legal challenges. A provision in the state constitution effectively bars partisan gerrymandering, according to The New York Times. DeSantis has argued that recent court rulings from both the state and U.S. Supreme Court have laid the groundwork to uphold the maps. The SCOTUS ruling also invalidates the below provisions of the FL Constitution requiring the use of race in redistricting: ”…districts shall not be drawn with the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in… https://t.co/IqrLoWdO0L — Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) April 29, 2026 Zack Smith, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling did not address political gerrymandering.  “So at least from a federal constitutional perspective, the federal constitution isn’t going to have anything to say about political gerrymanders,” Smith said in an interview with The Daily Wire.  “That’s going to be left to the states and really depend on what each state’s laws in each state’s constitution says about how their state legislatures draw their legislative maps,” he added.

Far-left senator Bernie Sanders is working with individuals closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party in his crusade against artificial intelligence. Sanders on Wednesday evening will sit down with Chinese nationals Xue Lan, a professor at the CCP-funded Tsinghua University, and Zeng Yi, the dean of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance. The event is slated to examine the “existential threat” posed by AI and the need for international cooperation to regulate it. The Tsinghua University is China’s top engineering school and works hand in hand with the Chinese government and military. The university has been linked to the CCP’s cyber-espionage campaigns targeting the United States — the university owns companies and projects tied to Beijing’s priorities to achieve technological breakthroughs. In 2018, Chinese cyber actors targeted Alaskan networks and organizations at the center of trade negotiations with the Alaska state government. The surveillance attacks occurred before, during, and after the negotiations between China and the governor. The United States is a top study abroad destination for the highly skilled student engineers whose top employers after university are Nvidia’s Chinese rival Huawei, the State Grid Corporation of China, and China’s Aerospace, Science, and Technology Corporation.  Yi, of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, is an advocate of scaling back AI, warning of environmental concerns that “fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable.” He argues AI is driving mass surveillance and discrimination. The campaign from Sanders and his Chinese allies to scale back AI comes as President Donald Trump pushes to make sure the United States stays at the front of the AI race. Trump launched his “American AI Action Plan” in July 2025, which made a commitment to AI development, absent onerous regulation and infrastructure inhibitions. Sanders’ event advocates for the opposite. The event has been criticized by prominent voices in the American tech industry, such as Marc Andreessen, who called the involvement of China “concerning.” There have been warnings from the tech industry that the American left will be China’s only hope to leapfrog America.  Joe Lonsdale, the co-founder of the defense giant Palantir, said China is desperate to catch up with the United States in the AI fight. “The United States has opened a significant civilizational lead versus China when it comes to the defense and economic situation around Artificial Intelligence,” Lonsdale said, warning that China is “desperate to use the left” to set America back. He said it’s difficult to tell whether the left is on China’s side or just naive. “CCP leadership encourages regressive socialist views in the United States of America, in [a] desperate attempt to slow adversaries’ economic and military advantage.”  Sanders leads the Left’s campaign against AI, proposing an AI moratorium in December. He also frequently voices concern over the technology turning on humans. “If AI becomes smarter than human beings, we could lose control over this revolutionary technology and AI could turn against the human race with cataclysmic consequences,” he said.  Trump’s AI czar David Sacks argues the opposite. “As I’ve said many times before, the biggest risk of AI isn’t James Cameron’s The Terminator, it’s George Orwell’s 1984,” he wrote in an X post. Sacks says the AI safety crowd will inevitably “bring about the Orwellian future they claim to oppose” because “their solutions always favor more government centralization and control.”  He also argues it’s crucial that the United States reign over China on AI superiority, or the rest of the world will embed China’s technology into their ecosystems. Sacks claims China’s models enforce ideological bias, censorship, and historical revisionism.

We are about to have a mugshot of “America’s Tallest Teenage Girl,” as my boss, Ben Domenech, likes to joke. Yes. All 6 feet and 8 inches of James Comey, the former FBI director who spent years weaponizing the Justice Department against President Donald Trump, is surrendering to federal authorities today after a grand jury in North Carolina handed down two felony counts, each carrying up to five years in prison. To quote the wise Hillary Rodham Clinton: “No one is above the law.” I can’t help but laugh at the sheer teenage drama of it all, because as a former teenage girl myself, I know this character arc by heart. Comey’s entire career has been one long, awkward coming-of-age story, and he’s finally reaching the make-or-break point of girlhood. In the beginning, there is a quest for autonomy. That early-teen “you’re not the boss of me” phase my mother begrudgingly endured, where you suddenly become the smartest person in the house. As FBI director, Comey weaponized the Department of Justice against a duly elected president, signed off on FISA warrants built on a phony Steele dossier, pushed the Russia collusion hoax for years, and leaked sensitive memos to the media while dressing it up as “higher loyalty.” Classic teenager move: convinced that perceived righteousness exempts you from the rules everyone else has to follow. He then enters the social performance stage of life, that unruly stretch of caring too much what your tribe thinks. Comey began this stage last year when he “stumbled upon” seashells on the seashore, arranged to spell “86 47.” For anyone who doesn’t speak dinner-table shorthand: “86” has meant “get rid of it” since the 1930s. “47” is, of course, the 47th president, Donald Trump. But you needn’t know either of those facts to get the message. At the time he posted it, Leftist protesters were plastering that phrase everywhere. It was the new viral call-to-death chant against the president. Comey himself admitted he recognized it as a “clever political thing,” before gushing over the “artistic flair” of the seashells, snapping a photo, and posting it to Instagram for his hundreds of thousands of followers. He knew exactly what he was doing. This is the same man who spent decades prosecuting gangs for far less direct threats, but he believes he’s above institutional power, so he thought a simple “delete and play dumb” would suffice. That’s how coded language works in the assassination culture the Left has mainstreamed — where 56% of left-wingers say it would be somewhat justifiable to murder the president — plausible deniability built right in. “They were just pretty seashells!” This matters more than a beach photo op. At the time Comey posted it, Trump had already survived at least two assassination attempts. The shot had already been fired. The bullet had already grazed his ear. And Comey, the former head of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency, decided that was the moment to signal to the mob. Finally, Comey has entered his principled idealist phase. The late-teen “I’m immovable and morally superior” stage. After the indictment dropped, Comey released a video declaring, “I’m still innocent, and still not afraid.” He’s the protagonist in his own head, forever the hero resisting the big bad demagogue. We can be certain of this because he quite literally wrote a book about it. His new novel explores how right-wing podcasters are radicalizing people into political violence. You can’t help but laugh. The man who posted a public call to “86” a sitting president — one who had already survived multiple assassination attempts — is now lecturing America about incitement. Let’s also be honest about the obvious double standard: imagine, for one second, current FBI Director Kash Patel posting a photo of seashells spelling out “86 46” about Joe Biden. We all know what it would mean. We all know exactly how fast the media and the DOJ would have detonated. But when Comey did signal the useful idiots to remove the 47th president? Crickets. This was never about seashells. It’s about an assassination culture the Left spent years building. The manifestos, the cheers when the bullet missed, the “mostly peaceful” rhetoric that somehow always ends with conservatives in the crosshairs. Comey didn’t just participate in that culture. He performed it on the national stage, with his name, his platform, and his hundreds of thousands of followers, and then acted shocked when his actions had consequences. America’s Tallest Teenage Girl is finding out.  He’ll whine, he’ll cry, he’ll insist it was just a silly beach photoshoot. But we know better, and more importantly, so does a grand jury in North Carolina. As the teens would say, Karma is a B*tch.

One of the universal experiences of parenthood is that, sooner rather than later, your child will say something that’s simultaneously very dumb, but also endearing because it reflects a view of the world that no adult could possibly have. A child might assume that his teacher lives at school, for example. And then he’ll express utter shock and horror when he sees one of his teachers at the supermarket. Or maybe he’ll wonder why the moon is following him around at night, or why people don’t just use ATMs to withdraw unlimited amounts of money. Unless you’re a chronic marijuana user, these aren’t the kind of thoughts you typically have as an adult. It’s a simplistic and off-kilter way of thinking, but you give it a pass, and even find it charming, when it’s coming from your five-year-old. When you’re scrolling through videos on your phone and you hear something like this from a sitting member of Congress, on the other hand, all of the charm is lost. You see, in order to be a member of the House of Representatives, you have to be 25 years old at a minimum. Your frontal cortex has to be relatively well-developed, at least in theory. We have this restriction — as minimal as it is — because we don’t want legislators introducing bills that guarantee, I don’t know, mandatory birthday parties every month. And we also don’t want members of Congress to stand in front of a podium, and deliver moments like this one, live on national television. Watch: A resurfaced clip from January 2025 shows woke Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar referring to World War II as “World War Eleven.” The lawmaker is often vulgar in her public statements and talks down to Americans, while praising her country of origin, a failed state. Her… pic.twitter.com/9O0am39bnh — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 28, 2026 Source: @MrAndyNgo/X.com The phrase “jaw-dropping” is overused these days, but there’s really no better way to describe this footage. She tells us, without hesitating at all, that this particular law hasn’t been invoked since World War Eleven. Yes, World War Eleven. Whoever wrote this script for Ilhan Omar, needless to say, badly overestimated her intelligence, in at least two different ways. First of all, of course, she read the Roman Numeral “II” as “eleven,” which means she somehow has no familiarity with the concept of a Roman Numeral. We can deduce that she’s never opened a history book at any point in her life, or watched a movie sequel, or read an outline, or paid any attention to the Super Bowl, or seen one of those old-fashioned clock faces, or met anyone who’s named after his father, or anything like that. But even if, for some reason, you’re inclined to give Ilhan Omar a pass for not understanding Roman Numerals, there’s an even bigger problem here, which is that she thinks it’s plausible that there were eleven different World Wars. That’s one of those moments that, no matter how much you want to give someone the benefit of the doubt, is simply impossible to defend. The words “World War Eleven” should not come out of your mouth, under any circumstances. Instinctively, you should know something’s wrong at that point, and you should hit the brakes before you say anything. People are giving her credit for catching her mistake a couple seconds later, but this is one of those errors that just shouldn’t happen to begin with. The brain needs to intercept this particular thought immediately, and neutralize it. I’m the first to admit that someone who speaks publicly all the time might commit a flub here or there, a gaffe, mispronounce a name on occasion — or in my case, mispronounce basically every name, every time. These things are understandable. But the term “world war eleven” is so jarring, so wrong, so divorced from reality, that it simply should not leave your lips. If it does, then that’s evidence of much deeper intellectual deficiencies. So in this case, we can assume one of two things. The first possibility — which admittedly is very remote — is that Ilhan Omar might have an extremely low IQ, and she’s spent a non-zero amount of time after watching “The Godfather Part II” wondering where the other 10 Godfather movies are. She knows she can’t find them on Netflix, but she’s pretty sure they’re out there, somewhere. Or maybe she’s done the same thing with “Back to the Future Part II” or “Star Wars Episode II” or “Rocky II.” That would be the worst-case scenario, by far —  at least for Ilhan Omar. The other possibility is that she’s right, and everyone else is wrong. Maybe there really have been 11 world wars, and we’ve just been undercounting this whole time. And if that’s the case, then effective immediately, I’m calling for one more World War. Now look, I’m as skeptical of foreign intervention as anyone else. And yes, there would be a lot of casualties in World War 12. But if there’s already been eleven world wars, then I think we might as well do one more and make it an even dozen. Frankly, eleven is just a weird number to end on. We’re so close to a nice round number. And it’s about time our leaders did something for the benefit of the OCD community. All things considered though, Occam’s Razor probably wins here. And that’s a sobering realization. As I said on X, our founding fathers never even considered the possibility that illiterate, moronic third-world women would one day be shipped into this country — and then elected to Congress. We are discovering a method of national suicide that never entered the minds of the founders. Or at least, to the extent that it did enter their minds, they warned us, repeatedly, not to succumb to it. And they didn’t mince words. More on that in a second. But first, it’s important to underscore the extent of the contrast between what Ilhan Omar represents, on the one hand, and the “America First” leadership that currently sits in the White House on the other. What Ilhan Omar represents, although she’s too dumb to realize it, is the notion that America is a “propositional nation” — which is to say, a nation that’s nothing more than a set of ideas. In particular, she represents the fiction that America is open to everyone, that “diversity is our strength,” and that everyone who sets foot inside our borders is just as American as anyone else. Yesterday, Donald Trump hosted King Charles III at the White House — or as Ilhan Omar calls him, King Charles one-hundred-and-eleven. And Trump delivered one of the best speeches of his political career, without question. It wasn’t just a rejection of Democrat Party orthodoxy, or the suggestion that America is a propositional nation. We’re not defined by any Supreme Court decision or even the Constitution. Instead, Trump made it clear that America is defined by shared culture, religion, language, territory, and ancestry. One cannot simply “identify” as an American. As a country, we’re successful because of our Anglo-Saxon heritage. Watch: Source: USA Today/YouTube.com “The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance, their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage.” Every single time they say Trump is equivalent to Hitler, and every single time they call MAGA supporters “Nazis,” they’re trying to de-program you so that you don’t think along these lines. They’re trying to imply that, if you think heritage matters, then you must be a horrible human being. But the truth is, there’s nothing hateful or genocidal or authoritarian about believing something that happens to be true. And it’s true — demonstrably so — that your heritage matters. Your genetics matter. Your culture matters. The reason Somalia looks the way it does — and we all know it — has nothing to do with “systemic racism” or oppression or colonialism. There are plenty of other formerly-colonized countries, from South Korea to Botswana, that aren’t anywhere near as dysfunctional. For decades in Somalia, they’ve been fighting among themselves. Believe it or not, they just passed a law making sexual assault a crime a few years ago. That’s the kind of thing that happens when you don’t have any common law tradition, or a basic sense of morality. At the state dinner last night, Trump hammered the same point. Watch: