President Donald Trump attended his first-ever White House Correspondents Association Dinner, with this year's rescheduled gala held Friday evening in Washington, D.C., and delivered some pointed remarks to the assembled journalists in a rambling speech that stretched on for just over an hour — and during which he personally insulted several journalists, politicians and celebs that he's sparred with.
"I am delighted to be here at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Amazing people, a lot of people that I like," Trump said. "Some I don't like at all, but I respect most of them."
At first, Trump seemed unsure of the tone he wanted to impart, and suggested that — compared with barbs he was planning to deliver at the original WHCA dinner, which was disrupted by a gun-wielding attacker — he was pulling his punches. "I said, 'What do we do here? Is this supposed to be fun? Am I supposed to be serious? Am I supposed to be a comedian?' So I guess you said, maybe a little bit of everything."
But Trump quickly started bashing the press. "This evening it's really all about the fake news media and your handling of prizes — writing and producing and performing made-up stories like the Academy Awards," Trump said. The Academy Awards "used to be the the epitome of ratings outside of the Super Bowl… Now it's down in the dumps. Nobody wants to watch it anymore because they took on Trump. They hit me all night long."
Israeli rights groups have called on the international community to intervene in order to prevent a "pogrom" in the occupied West Bank.
Alexandra Bravo, the prosecutor assigned to investigate U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats and the 36 survivors’ subsequent accounts of torture and kidnapping, was shot dead in the coastal city of Manta last month. According to police, on June 14 a hitman aboard a black motorcycle opened fire on Bravo as she and her sister were leaving a café at about 11 a.m. Bravo’s sister, who jumped to protect her, was also killed in the attack.
An unprecedented investment in social media propaganda by Israel is failing to shift the cratering support for the country in the western world amid its ongoing genocide in Gaza, particularly among the younger generation, analysts have told Middle East Eye. 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) struck a tanker in the Black Sea, a Russian pontoon crossing and a concentration of Russian personnel as part of broader efforts to weaken Mosconotw’s military and economic capabilities.
When the ‘“department of government efficiency” was raging unchecked through the federal government in February 2025, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered his subordinates to find cuts of 8% a year for the next five years, theoretically trimming a total of $340m from the Pentagon budget.
