An alleged shooter is in custody after shots were reportedly fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Satruday night. It’s unclear if anyone is injured, according to a Washington Times pool report. President Donald Trump was evacuated from White House Correspondents’ Dinner after shots were fired at the venue on Saturday night. Video of the incident indicates popping noises, as well as people shouting to “stay down.” Trump rushed off stage during White House Correspondents Dinner! pic.twitter.com/L5yCFk4bNj — MSJ (@M_S_J) April 26, 2026 The Daily Wire can confirm that high-profile individuals, including the president and cabinet officials, were evacuated out of the event, but television cameras still show people remain inside the room. Trump was sitting at the table, along with first lady Melania Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, among others, when popping sounds were heard, according to NewsNation. They were cleared extremely quickly from the table, as some people sitting at the dinner ducked under their chairs. Many details are still unknown, and if the dinner will continue on as normal. The Washington Hilton, where the dinner was set to take place, is where President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. This is a breaking story; refresh for updates.

At least 13 people were killed and 17 wounded in an explosives attack in western Colombia on Saturday, a police source told Reuters, in violence authorities have blamed on dissidents of the FARC guerrilla group. The attack took place on the Pan-American Highway in the El Tunel area of Cajibio municipality, about 35 km (22 miles) from Popayan, the capital of Cauca province, according to authorities. Cauca Governor Octavio Guzman said on X the attack was one of several criminal actions reported in the province on Saturday. “Cauca cannot continue to face this barbarity alone. We are facing a terrorist escalation that demands immediate responses. We demand forceful, sustained and effective action from the national government in the face of the grave public order crisis we are experiencing,” he added. Presidential candidate Paloma Valencia, a member of the opposition right-wing Democratic Center party who is from Cauca, called the attack “terrorism” carried out by the dissident FARC faction, which rejected a 2016 peace deal. “President Gustavo Petro’s government cannot continue minimizing the violence or dismantling the state,” she said. “We demand immediate action, full backing for our Armed Forces and police, and concrete results.” Petro, a former rebel himself whose term as president is nearing an end, has pursued a “total peace” policy with guerrillas through negotiations and intermittent ceasefires. (Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta and Diego Ore; Editing by Alistair Bell, Rod Nickel)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may visit the United States for a summit starting May 11 to meet with President Donald Trump and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. The visit, first reported by i24News, is reportedly contingent on whether or not Netanyahu can safely leave Israel. Netanyahu last met with Trump in February, The Daily Wire previously reported, where the two discussed ongoing negotiations with Iran. The U.S. bombed Iran in Operation Epic Fury later that month. The potential meeting comes as Trump has encouraged negotiations between Israel and Lebanon despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The two countries agreed to extend an ongoing ceasefire for three weeks following an April 23 meeting in the White House. Netanyahu and Aoun’s meeting would fall within the timeframe of that ceasefire. “The Meeting went very well!” Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing the ceasefire. “The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah.” The meeting included Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, along with diplomats from Israel and Lebanon. In the post, Trump said he would host Netanyahu and Aoun “in the near future.” The ceasefire agreement allows Israel to take self-defense measures while requiring Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from “carrying out attacks, operations, or hostile activities against Israeli targets,” The Daily Wire previously reported. Tensions have remained high between the two countries, with both accusing the other of violating the ceasefire. The first round of talks was held April 14, the first high-level meeting between the two since 1993, The Daily Wire reported at the time. Recently, an Israeli soldier damaged a statue of Jesus in the southern Lebanese village of Debel, causing widespread controversy and leading to swift condemnation and a formal response from the Israel Defense Forces. In a statement on X, the IDF expressed “deep regret,” calling the act a “moral failure” that contradicts its core values. The soldier responsible, along with the individual who filmed the incident, has been removed from combat duty and sentenced to 30 days of military detention. Additional troops present have been called in for review, and the IDF replaced the statue in “full coordination” with the local Christian community.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp declared an emergency on Friday for 91 counties in his state, where authorities are battling two major wildfires that have caused record property damage as more than 120 homes and other buildings have gone up in flames. The Highway 82 and Pineland Road fires – one sparked by a party balloon, the other by a welder’s torch – are by far the fiercest among dozens of blazes ravaging the drought-stricken Georgia countryside and neighboring states of Florida, South Carolina, and Alabama in recent days. No casualties were reported in Georgia, which has borne the brunt of the wildfires. But a volunteer firefighter died on Thursday evening after suffering an unspecified medical emergency while fighting a brush fire in northern Florida, according to various news media reports. The conflagrations were primed by a confluence of climate extremes gripping the Southeast, authorities said. Unusually sparse rainfall this spring following heavy vegetation growth in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last fall has created a fuel bed of drought-parched timber and brush now posing the kind of wildfire hazards more typical for the Western United States in summer. “We are in extreme drought conditions, and wildfire activity has already surpassed our five-year average,” Georgia Forestry Commission Director Johnny Sabo said in a video message posted online. “Right now conditions are so dry that even one small spark can quickly turn into a dangerous wildfire.” As of Friday night, the Highway 82 and Pineland blazes had scorched more than 39,500 acres (16,000 hectares) combined, incinerating at least 122 homes and other structures, state forestry officials said. The tally of destruction marked the biggest property loss from a single fire event in Georgia’s history, the governor told a press conference. Nearly 1,000 more homes remained threatened, he said. Fires are scattered across Georgia, with the two biggest clustered in the southeast near the Florida border, roughly 250 miles (400 km) southeast of Atlanta, the state’s capital and largest city. News footage of the fires showed walls of pine trees engulfed in flames, and Kemp described “fire that is burning to the top of trees and burning from one treetop to another.” With firefighters and water-dropping aircraft struggling to halt the advance of the flames, crews were trying to protect homes still in harm’s way, Kemp said. Teams had managed to carve containment lines around 10% of the perimeters of each of the two major fires, forestry officials said. In a move aimed at hastening and consolidating Georgia’s disaster response, Kemp declared a state of emergency in 91 of Georgia’s 159 counties. Sabo announced a 30-day ban on the outdoor burning of refuse, agricultural waste or campfires in the same counties, the first such restriction in the state’s history. The origin of the two biggest blazes illustrated how a small ignition source could touch off catastrophic fires. Investigators determined that the Highway 82 blaze began on Monday, when an aluminum-coated balloon landed on a transmission line, triggering an electrical spark that ignited surrounding vegetation. The Pineland Road fire, burning since April 18, was touched off by a stray spark from a welding operation that fell to the forest floor, authorities said. Authorities said they expected extreme fire conditions to persist through the weekend, with gusty winds and little chance of rain in the forecast. (Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by William Mallard)

A North Carolina school board is refusing to protect female students in bathrooms and locker rooms, despite months of concerns from students and parents. Trista Ruck, a junior at Cox Mill High School in Cabarrus County, addressed the Cabarrus County School Board in December of 2025 and asked them to create a policy defending female-only spaces at the school. At Ruck’s school, a male student identifying as a woman is on the football and basketball cheer team and uses women’s locker rooms and restrooms. “Many of my peers and I feel uncomfortable using facilities designed for women and women alone, as he has different reproductive parts than we do,” Ruck said. MASSIVE SCANDAL UNFOLDING IN @CabCoSchools The school is allowing MALES to invade the girls’ restrooms. Girls are reportedly terrified to go to the bathroom and are holding themselves in to avoid males in their private space. Students are begging the administration for help,… pic.twitter.com/BAwkHNFvCv — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 24, 2026 Ruck said both parents and students had discussed the problem with Cox Mill administration and the athletic director, only to be “blatantly ignored.” The school’s only response was to make special accommodations for the female students instead of for the trans-identifying student, Ruck said. One of Ruck’s friends, who is on one of the school’s sports teams, said she noticed the male student watching her and other female students changing while in the locker room, according to Ruck. “She stated that this made her feel extremely uncomfortable and that she did not feel safe or respected in that environment,” Ruck told the board. The student was told to take the problems to the principal, who said it was “too political to address, and that any action might be interpreted the wrong way,” according to Ruck. “Our school is supposed to make every student safe, but we get ostracized when we discuss this with adults who are supposed to ensure the safety and comfortability at school,” Ruck said. “Personally, I try to avoid the restrooms at all costs, but I do use these facilities at times when I really have to. I, as well as others, do not feel comfortable when an individual of the opposite gender is allowed and authorized to use our facilities.” In addition to safety concerns over males in female spaces, avoiding using the restroom can cause health problems, including chronic pain and urinary tract infections, according to Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Holding in urine repeatedly for long periods of time can also make it difficult to fully empty one’s bladder and can cause pelvic floor dysfunction. Cabarrus County voted for President Donald Trump in 2024, according to election data, but despite repeated concerns, the board has refused to institute any countywide policies protecting women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. Alexis Hughes, the founder of You Heard Her, an advocacy for female students in Cabarrus County, slammed the board for ignoring Ruck and other students at its most recent meeting on April 13, 2026. “This is not about hate or judging any any child, and this is not about asking the board to take a position on personal beliefs or ideology,” Hughes said. “What you are responsible for is ensuring students are safe, that their privacy is protected, and that policies are clear and consistently applied.” Hughes referenced Ruck’s comments and criticized the board for not addressing the problem. “She came to you all for help. You heard her. You did nothing. Shame,” Hughes said. “There is nothing political about a child that feels unsafe when they are changing clothes. That is a basic expectation of privacy, and it is all of your responsibility.” Multiple speakers at the April meeting slammed the board for not taking action to protect female students. At the end of public comment, the board carried on with usual business without addressing any of the speakers’ concerns. “This comes down to three things: safety, privacy, and respect for every student,” Hughes told the board. “Transgender students deserve protection, but policy has to protect all students. And right now, the absence of policy is failing every single student in our district.”