• Seorang tersangka didakwa pada hari Senin atas upaya pembunuhan Presiden Trump setelah menerobos jamuan makan White House Correspondents' Association dengan membawa berbagai senjata pada April 2026.
• Insiden ini telah memperkuat perselisihan partisan terkait retorika politik dan kekerasan, dengan kedua belah pihak saling menyalahkan bahasa yang digunakan masing-masing dalam berkontribusi terhadap eskalasi tersebut.
• Dugaan percobaan pembunuhan ini telah mengejutkan Washington dan memicu perbandingan dengan kekerasan politik bersejarah, yang mendorong diskusi mengenai keamanan dan iklim politik saat ini.
Alleged shooter, identified as Cole Tomas Allen, faces potential life sentence. Plus: the Americans renouncing their citizenshipGood morning.The suspect accused of trying to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner was charged on Monday with three federal crimes, including attempting to assassinate the president – a charge that carries a potential sentence of up to life in prison.What was his motive? Investigators have yet to release one. However, to establish the charge of attempted assassination, the affidavit quotes from a part of a manifesto Allen allegedly sent to family members that states: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”Was lax security to blame? While many have praised the actions of law enforcement officers in swiftly stopping the attack, Allen’s alleged manifesto mocked an “insane” lack of security at the Washington dinner.What is the Trump administration saying about the attack? Several officials, including the president, have seized on the incident to advance their case for the completion of Trump’s $40m White House ballroom project, with the justice department pressuring a preservation group to drop a lawsuit seeking to halt the construction.Will there be an Oval Office meeting? Sources told the Guardian that Charles will pose for the cameras at the start of his centerpiece bilateral meeting on Tuesday, but that British officials have pushed for the Oval Office meeting to be held off camera, for fear of a repeat of the scenes when Trump berated the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in front of the world’s press.What challenges does the king face with this visit? Relations between the UK and the US are already tense following Trump’s public criticism of Britain’s refusal to back military action against Iran, but Charles is also meeting Trump under the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein. Charles’s brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his connection with Epstein. Continue reading...
• Iranian delegates have claimed they felt "seriously threatened" following the collapse of Vice President JD Vance's negotiations in Islamabad, with Tehran suggesting the failure extended beyond diplomatic disagreement.
• An Iranian delegate alleged the team faced security threats on their way home, following Iran's Foreign Ministry condemnations of open calls in U.S. political and media circles for the assassination of Iranian negotiators.
• The failed talks represent a major embarrassment for the Trump administration, with claims that the U.S. may have attempted to target Iran's negotiating team.
Tehran denies it is ‘begging to make a deal’ and continues strikes across swathe of Middle EastMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has urged Iranian leaders to negotiate an end to the near-month-long war or face further assassinations of senior officials amid intensified military action by the US and Israel.The latest threat on Thursday came as Israel said it had had “blown up and eliminated” the Revolutionary Guards’ naval commander, Alireza Tangsiri, and several senior officers in a strike on the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Continue reading...
