Three months after a gunman's attack forced its cancellation, the White House Correspondents' dinner reconvened in Washington — a ritual older than a century, now carrying the weight of a near-tragedy and a presidency defined by its fraught relationship with the press. President Trump, who had boycotted the event entirely during his first term, took the head table for the first time as a sitting president, offering jokes where there had once been only grievance. The evening was less a reconciliation than a reckoning held in good humor — a reminder that democratic societies must find ways to ke
Trump returns to correspondents' dinner with jokes and jabs at 'fake news'
Secret Service officer Victor Gonzales was shot and wounded at a security checkpoint during the April 25 attack; a gunman attempted to force entry to the ballroom where the president and cabinet members were present.