
After a two year hiatus, DC seizes on a chance to reconnect at the flashy White House Correspondents' Dinner
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In DC it is simply known as "the dinner:" The White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, taking place this Saturday for the first time since 2019, due to the world's pandemic pause.
In DC it is simply known as "the dinner:" The White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, taking place this Saturday for the first time since 2019, due to the world's pandemic pause. It is an excuse for five days of awards and parties and celebrity selfies and, for media reporters like yours truly, source meetings.
Fellow media reporter Oliver Darcy attended the Bytes and Bylines event Thursday, hosted by Irish Ambassador Daniel Mulhall, where hundreds of journalists and politicos mingled over drinks and hors d'oeuvres, and here's what he noticed: "The most common topic of conversation seemed to be how attendees hadn't seen each other in years."

Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

Since early December the US Coast Guard and other military branches have boarded and taken control of five oil ships that had previously been sanctioned, all either accused of being in the process of transporting Venezuelan oil or on their way to take on oil that has been subject to US sanctions since President Donald Trump began a pressure campaign against the leadership of the country during his first term.










