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What we know about the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect
- No compatible source was found for this media. No compatible source was found for this media. posted online by President Donald Trump on Saturday night appear to match the LinkedIn profile of Cole Allen. Multiple outlets, including the Associated Press, have reported that Allen is the suspect now in custody. Business Insider was not able to independently confirm the suspect's identity. Authorities have not yet ...

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Chicago police officer who was fatally shot is identified as John Bartholomew
- The Chicago police officer fatally shot Saturday at a Lincoln Square hospital was identified as John Bartholomew, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Bartholomew, 38, was shot alongside another officer at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital by a robbery suspect who had been arrested earlier that morning, Police Supt. Larry Snelling told reporters Saturday. The second officer remains in critical ...

Source: chicago.suntimes.com
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Sen. Thom Tillis drops blockade of Trump's Fed chair nominee, clearing path for Warsh's confirmation
- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on Sunday said he'll vote to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh. The announcement comes after Tillis for weeks blocked Warsh's nomination from moving forward as he protested a Justice Department investigation into the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. "We worked a lot over the weekend to make sure that we were very clear that we have ...

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Media Dinner Shooting Suspect Wrote About Targeting Administration Officials, Trump Says
- While Washington spins the latest economic data and billionaires hedge their bets, working Americans are feeling the very real squeeze of rising costs, and sudden instability. HuffPost reports on the real economy – the one that impacts you. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner sent writings to family members minutes before the ...

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Trump calls for unity and bipartisan healing after another violent incident. But will it last?
- WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory after confronting what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that his personal politics had made him a repeated target, but he also called for unity and bipartisan healing in an increasingly violent world. "It's always shocking when something like this happens. Happened to me, a ...

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What's at stake in the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial
- SAN FRANCISCO — It's a trial so unusual, not even artificial intelligence could make it up. Jury selection begins Monday in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California, in a civil trial that features one tech billionaire, Elon Musk, suing another, Sam Altman. The case is one part business dispute and one part highly personal grudge match — and it could determine the future of red-hot startup OpenAI and ...

Source: nbcnews.com