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一张入境卡引发命名困局 韩国在海峡两岸间左右为难

2026年4月27日 05:01 / 联合早报 姜贵瑛 首尔通讯员

韩国电子入境系统将台湾标注为“中国（台湾）”引起台方抗议后，韩国删除了出现“中国（台湾）”选项的栏目。图为韩国仁川国际机场，摄于3月31日。 （路透社）

韩国因为入境卡上“中国（台湾）”标注的去留问题，被推入一场典型的命名政治困局：一边是必须谨慎对待的北京“一中原则”，另一边是愈发高调强调主体性的台北诉求。

一个原本属于行政流程设计的技术细节，迅速外溢为牵动韩中关系，甚至影响高层外交节奏的敏感变量。

争议始于制度更新。去年2月，韩国法务部全面引入电子入境申报系统。设计上虽允许旅客在“国家／地区”栏选择“台湾”，但在“出发地”和“下一目的地”栏目中却标注为“中国（台湾）”。

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“60 Minutes” to interview President Trump after White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

April 26, 2026 / 2:19 PM EDT / CBS News

Sunday on “60 Minutes,” President Trump talks to CBS News’ senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was abruptly evacuated Saturday after a gunman charged a security checkpoint.

O’Donnell spoke with Mr. Trump earlier Sunday about the experience, which she witnessed firsthand as an attendee of the annual gala to celebrat he First Amendment. It was Mr. Trump’s first time attending the event as president — he has historically declined the invitation.

Secret Service agents quickly escorted Mr. Trump and other administration officials from the ballroom Saturday after shots rang out. Authorities say 31-year-old Cole Allen charged the Washington Hilton Hotel, armed with a shotgun, a handgun and knives, before being apprehended by police. A Secret Service agent was shot, but was wearing a bulletproof vest and is expected to be OK.

Sources told CBS News that Allen had written a “manifesto” and sent it to members of his family, one of whom contacted police. In excerpts reviewed by CBS News, Allen wrote that he planned to target administration officials, “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” and authorities “only if necessary.” He said hotel employees and guests weren’t his intended targets but that he would still attack them to get to the administration, adding: “I really hope it doesn’t come to that.”

In a news conference Saturday night, Mr. Trump praised law enforcement, and said the suspect “hadn’t come anywhere close to breach the doors of the room.”

Asked if he was concerned about the threats to his life, Mr. Trump said, “It’s a dangerous profession.”

Mr. Trump said he “fought like hell” to resume the event after the shooting, but said law enforcement insisted otherwise. He said he wanted the dinner to be rescheduled within the next 30 days.

Watch the interview Sunday night at 7p ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+.

At least 16 dead in strikes across Ukraine and Russia on Chernobyl anniversary

April 26, 2026 / 2:48 PM EDT / AP / CBS News

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh warnings about the risks posed by attacks near the plant during Russia’s more than four-year invasion of its neighbor.

The death toll from Russian drone and missile strikes on the city of Dnipro rose to nine, regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said Sunday.

One man was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the port city of Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea, Moscow-installed authorities said Sunday. Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world considered illegal, and has used it as a staging and supply point during the war.

Leonid Pasechnik, the Russia-installed governor in Ukraine’s Luhansk region — of which Russia earlier this month said it had taken full control, a claim denied by Ukraine — said three people were killed in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike on a village, after reporting two people were killed in the early hours of Saturday.

Ukraine did not comment on either attack, which could not be independently verified by The Associated Press.

A man looks at a memorial dedicated to firefighters and workers who died after the 1986 Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear disaster, ahead of its 40th anniversary in Slavutych, Ukraine, Saturday, April 25, 2026. Chornobyl is the Ukrainian name for the city. Dan Bashakov / AP

The latest strikes came after a woman was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Belgorod border region, according to local authorities.

Ukrainian forces also struck an oil refinery in Yaroslavl, deep inside Russian territory, Ukraine’s General Staff said Sunday. The strikes sparked fires at the facility, which processes 15 million tons of oil a year and produces gasoline, diesel and jet fuel for the Russian military. Russia did not immediately comment.

Ukraine has developed its own long-range drones, which can reach targets some 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) inside Russia. It has used them recently against Russian oil facilities as Moscow looks to boost its exports after the Trump administration gave it a temporary waiver from sanctions to ease supply constraints. Kyiv officials complain that Russia will use the additional revenue on new weapons to hit Ukraine harder.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to warn that Russian attacks risk repeating history.

“Through its war, Russia is once again bringing the world to the brink of a man-made disaster — Russian-Iranian Shaheds regularly fly over the plant, and one of them struck the confinement last year,” he wrote on Facebook.

“The world must not allow this nuclear terrorism to continue, and the best way is to force Russia to stop its reckless attacks,” he said.

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, echoed those concerns during a visit to Kyiv, saying repairs to the plant’s damaged outer protective shell must begin immediately. IAEA assessments show the damage sustained after a strike last year has already compromised a key safety function of the structure, he said, warning that years of inaction could heighten danger to the original sarcophagus beneath it. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said repairs would require at least 500 million euros ($586 million).

Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone struck the outer shell of the plant’s New Safe Confinement structure — a $2.1 billion archlike enclosure completed in 2019 over the remains of Reactor No. 4 — in February 2025. Moscow denied targeting the plant, alleging Kyiv staged the attack.

Russia’s Defense Minister Andrei Belousov visited North Korea on Sunday for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about future military cooperation between the countries.

Belousov said the countries agreed to “transition military cooperation to a sustainable, long-term basis,” according to Russia state news agency Ria Novosti.

During the visit, he presented the Russian Order of Courage to Korean service members who served in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukraine launched a surprise incursion in August 2024.

Kim has sent thousands of troops and large weapons shipments to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Transcript: Sam Vinograd and AT Smith on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 26, 2026

2026-04-26T12:09:00-0400 / CBS News

Updated on: April 26, 2026 / 1:46 PM EDT / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd and CBS News law enforcement analyst AT Smith that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 26, 2026.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Samantha Vinograd. She was a top homeland security official in the Biden administration. Is now a national security contributor here at CBS and AT Smith is a former deputy director of the secret service and now a CBS law enforcement analyst and joins us from Greenville, South Carolina. Good to have you both here. Sam, you were in the room with us, sheltering with some of our colleagues, as I understand it, you were close to the perimeter and able to detect some of what was happening. I was struck, national guard was there, secret service was there, private security was there, national guard was there. The perimeter of the security went out pretty darn far. There were protests surrounding the building. There weren’t just protests about Trump. There were protests around Jeffrey Epstein. There were protests about the corporation that owns this news network. There were protests about the Iran war. How did you assess the security situation last night?

SAMANTHA VINOGRAD: Well, Margaret, I think a lot of us are waking up this morning and asking the basic question of, is anywhere safe? And the reality is that in this country, we are facing the most complex threat environment in our nation’s history, in particular, from lone actors, individuals who radicalized to violence, often online. In this scenario, two things can be true. It can be true that law enforcement and intelligence professionals prepared exhaustively for last night, weeks of planning, intelligence gathering, physical security barriers, officers on site. But it can also be true that in this moment in this security environment, the paradigms of the past may not be sufficient to meet the moment, and with that in mind, security professionals as well as private citizens need to rethink what it is going to take to actually secure these mass gatherings where there are so many protectees, and what it’s going to take to secure communities.

MARGARET BRENNAN: It’s frightening. I mean, AT – we were in a room with the most heavily guarded man in the world, and yet this happened. The acting attorney general said the system worked. In your view, did the system work?

AT SMITH: The system did work in terms of what the secret service trains to do every day when it comes to covering and evacuating a protectee, and as you saw the security plan, there – had the scenario where the president and the vice president exited different ways. They exited in different ways than the normal folks had come into the gathering, having said that the secret service, as I’ve said many times, no one is more critical of themselves than the secret service. So they’re going to have to look at this very diligently, in terms of this individual, how he was able to run that magnetometer as he did, and get as close as he did with two firearms. That is not acceptable, and they will have to try to figure that part out. And, you know, see what – what the intelligence and the investigation is going to bring, in terms of what this individual’s history was, and then, as you said earlier, Margaret try to figure out exactly how he got those guns into the hotel. Did he avoid, as you said, you know, taking an airplane to get there? And by using a train and so forth, was able to secrete them in some way and get him there. So, it’s a it’s a tough thing. The secret service was very successful in how they did that. And as Sam said, the perimeter around the hotel was exhaustive. But again, anytime you have a breach like this, you’ve just got to address it and be your worst, you know, critic.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You know, AT, I was speaking with some of our producers before the program. Many of us have traveled with the president in the past, and past presidents and other high level officials. When the president goes overseas or the vice president, they typically take over an entire hotel. secret service really locks the place down. That didn’t happen last night here on US soil. Is that the kind of thing we’re going to start seeing, that it’ll be more sort of like an Israeli model?

AT SMITH: You may have to, particularly, you know, it’s difficult because you have, obviously a hotel that’s open to the public. They have other guests that are unassociated with the event last night, and they are going to have to take a hard look at how you maybe screen those guests coming in. It’s very hard to necessarily know everything about everybody that’s there, but probably one safety scenario would be what you just said to more or less lock down the hotel. We don’t normally do that in the United States. And usually the secret service is very successful at coordinating and sort of corralling that area, like the ballroom that’s, you know, going to be used for the event, and making it secure. But again, they’ll have to take a look at that. And I said also that, you know, this was not a national special security event, but the planning, preparation, the weeks of work, really align it to that kind of a security plan. So I’m sure, in terms of perimeters, that was all done.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Sam, I think you make such a great point, which is, essentially, you can’t protect against the unexpected, right? Can’t protect against everything. We’ve talked about this though. I mean as parents, as human beings, and being in that room, so many of those lawmakers, so many of those journalists, are dehumanized. They are attacked online. They are attacking each other. You have a high level of animosity in the public space, people were united in the president said he wasn’t wrong in using that word, because they were all scared of what was going to happen next. I don’t know how we solve for that as a society, because it seems to have really seeped in to our politics and to our conversations. I mean, it is just the new normal.

SAMANTHA VINOGRAD: Every time an incident like this happens, the optimist in me thinks, perhaps this will be a turning point. Perhaps this will be a turning point where each and every person in this country thinks about what they say and how they act. Words do matter, certainly. At the same time, whenever an incident like this happens, and I say this Margaret as a mother and as a security professional, I hope that it is also a wake up call to law enforcement professionals to rethink whether additional steps are needed, like perhaps screening guests coming into a public venue at a mass gathering with a lot of protectees. But that it is also a wake up call to every person in this country to understand that they have a role to play in our homeland security while law enforcement looks at whether additional protocols are needed at various sites, every viewer, every person in this country, needs to say something when they see something, an individual in their circle, at their workplace, in their family, is demonstrating signs that they could be going down a pathway to violence. They need to ask for help from a law enforcement professional or other trained official, and we need to really devote all the resources that we can to ensuring that the integration between state and local and federal officials is not just where it was before, but tighter than ever, so that we can try to prevent these incidents from happening in the future.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Sam, I’m glad you’re safe. I’m glad you’re with us. AT, thank you, very much for your insights. We’ll be right back.

Weijia Jiang: I was on stage last night with the president. This is what I saw.

2026-04-26T12:12:00-0400 / CBS News

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President Trump and CBS News’ Weijia Jiang react as sounds of gunfire were heard at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, April 25, 2026. Reuters

The night was going exactly as planned.

For eight months, as president of the White House Correspondents Association, I’d been working on this dinner party. Above all, I had hoped it would restore some normalcy between the Trump administration and the press. Maybe I was naïve, but I wanted it to be a room we don’t see enough of in Washington: a bipartisan one. And it was.

There were more than 2,500 journalists and guests dressed to the nines. CEOs, celebrities, ambassadors and members of the cabinet including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Todd Blanche, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin — many just feet from the president in the ballroom.

Most important was Donald Trump himself: after 15 years of boycotting the dinner, he finally decided to come. It was the first time he had attended as president.

Trump was in a great mood. The Marine Corps Band had just played The Star-Spangled Banner, and the president was on the dais. We were chatting about the last time he attended, when Barack Obama was president.

“You know, everyone thinks I was upset by all those jokes Obama made. But I really wasn’t,” I remember him telling me as Oz Pearlman — the mentalist I had booked for the night — asked if he could interrupt. He was doing a trick on the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, and he wanted the president and me to watch.

Leavitt is due to give birth in a matter of days, and she’d told me earlier that Pearlman claimed he’d figure out the name of her unborn baby. “There’s no way he would ever be able to do that,” she said. “Very few people know it. It’s impossible.”

We all watched. Melania Trump, seated to Leavitt’s left, was quite engaged. Oz prepared to turn over a piece of paper with a name scribbled on it with a Sharpie.

Oz revealed a name to the first lady and Leavitt, and I watched her reaction. The look on her face—shock and delight—is an image now frozen in my mind, because it’s the last thing I saw before chaos unfolded.

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At that very moment, we heard commotion. I looked out in the audience and thought there might have been a heckler. But I didn’t see one.

Before I could make sense of what was unfolding, armed agents rushed toward the dais. They multiplied quickly, sprinting from the other side of the stage to surround us. I heard shouts of “down, down, down, get down.”

I got out of my chair and was following Trump when he hit the ground. I got on my hands and knees too. Only later did I see a big bruise on my left knee. I was crawling, and we were ushered behind the stage.

President Trump is rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner after shots were fired outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton. Bo Erickson / REUTERS

I crawled to the holding area, where the show producers were watching the video feeds of the live images from inside the ballroom.

Inside weren’t just my fellow journalists but also the most important people in my life. Moments before the chaos unfolded, I locked eyes with my 82-year-old father who waved to me. He looked happy. He and my mom both struggle with mobility. “Where are their wheelchairs?” I wanted to know. Who’s going to push them out of danger? My husband and my 7-year-old daughter were there too. Was she scared? Was she crying? I wanted to hold her.

I scanned the feeds looking for them, shaking. I asked anyone who could hear me: What happened? What’s wrong? Did anyone get hurt?

I have covered many shootings and murders in my career, including Sandy Hook in 2012. But this was the first time I found myself on the other side. No one can prepare you for it.

There was a rush of advance guys and Secret Service guys. “Blue, blue!” one said, rushing toward the room where Trump was being held.

There were several unverified news reports and tweets. Clearly, there was a situation with a shooter and a gun, but the information I had was just that the president wants the show to go on. He did not want to be deterred.

At some point, I went back on stage and assured everyone that the show would go on. People were glad to hear that. We waited and waited. Then one of the advance guys told me the president wanted to talk to me. I was led into a room by the president’s closest aides.

The first lady was standing and offered me a smile. “Are you OK?” she asked. Vice President Vance entered and asked the same.Secretary Rubio was next to me. I just kept hearing, “We’re going to the White House. We’re going to the White House.”

But the president did not want to go. He told me that he wanted to get back on stage. But also that his speech — a “shtick,” he called it — would now be “totally inappropriate.”

They decided on a press conference at the White House in 30 minutes, which I announced to the ballroom. The room laughed. I assured them it wasn’t a joke.

Then, to the room of reporters, I added: “I said earlier tonight that journalism is a public service, because when there is an emergency, we run to the crisis, not away from it. And on a night when we are thinking about the freedoms in the First Amendment, we must also think about how fragile they are.”

I got a ride with the presidential motorcade, which had waited for me. Other reporters ran to the White House in their heels.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang speaks on the phone as she awaits the start of President Trump’s press conference after the shooting. Nathan Howard / Getty Images

He looked solemn as he walked to the podium. After he gave an update about the suspect, he called on me to ask the first question. I wanted to know what he was thinking when he realized what was going on.

He said, “It was always shocking when something like this happens, happened to me, a little bit, and that never changes the fact we’re sitting right next to each other, first lady on my right, and I heard a noise, and sort of thought it was a tray.”

I was struck when Trump acknowledged how the shooting shaped his view of his relationship with the press. He said, “This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press, and in a certain way, it did, because the fact that they just unified. I saw a room that was just totally unified.”

Unity isn’t a word we hear much these days. But that’s how I felt, too.

Trump insists we are having the dinner again in 30 days. Let’s see.

As for the name of Leavitt’s baby girl: I saw it. But I haven’t had a chance to confirm it.

Transcript: Sir Christian Turner, U.K. ambassador to the U.S., on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 26, 2026

2026-04-26T12:12:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Sir Christian Turner, U.K. ambassador to the U.S., that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 26, 2026.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the British Ambassador to the United States. His Excellency, Sir Christian Turner. Good to have you here.

AMB. CHRISTIAN TURNER: Good to be here. Margaret, thank you.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You too, were in that ballroom last night. You got a lot of security training for unstable countries where you have been posted as a professional diplomat over the course of your career. Did you ever imagine in one of the most heavily guarded rooms in DC, you’d have to put that to use?

AMB. TURNER: Well the training I’ve had in some of those places I’ve been actually kicks in last night, you basically do what you’re told and let the professional security folk do what they do. And I think it was one of my big takeaways last night. I think it was a- I’m with the people who say it was a success story. The Secret Service absolutely did what they needed to, not only that, but seeing actually all the journalists in the room and their training kicking in in a weekend that is all about the freedom of the press. I’m full of admiration for the way people responded last night.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well you- me too, but you have a week ahead of you, because King Charles and Queen Camilla are expected to arrive tomorrow. This is a going to be a big event regardless of what happened last night. But just to be clear, you haven’t changed your security assessment. You believe it is still safe for them to come and speak to Congress and be at the White House?

AMB. TURNER: So we respond to that professional advice. I’m currently planning to be welcoming their Majesties tomorrow. But of course, our team has been in touch way through the night, and we’ll be through the day to see whether the events of last night have any change in our operational planning. And I’m very confident that their Majesties will have the very best security throughout the visit.

MARGARET BRENNAN: All right, there is another big ballroom gathering planned, right? For the King.

AMB. TURNER: it’s going to be an extraordinary three or four days for us. Margaret. We’ve been planning this visit for years. Really, it’s the 250th between our two countries. I mean a somber background after last night for all of us. But I still hope we’ll be able to showcase this moment to make it the celebration that it deserves to be.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, a celebration, but to be clear, it’s also a bit of repair work right to the special relationship. The president had been quite upset with your Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who didn’t initially support the offensive operations by the U.S. and Israel against Iran, and the president was very clear he was not happy with him. He mocked him. He said he’s no Winston Churchill. He said it was too late for the UK to even offer help. And then there was other tension about the UK. As a NATO ally, how much repair work is this visit actually about?

AMB. TURNER: Well, the extraordinary thing in the British Constitution, of course, is the king is above politics. I have to remind people, he’s never given–

MARGARET BRENNAN: He’s a definite political asset, let’s be clear.

AMB. TURNER: But he’s never given an interview, which I have to remind people because, of course, he’s the head of state, but he’s not the head of government. So actually, that’s why we can make this a moment to step up and step back. And I think, I mean, just to take it back to last night. I mean, the other takeaway is that strong sentiment you were just discussing with your last guest, the president, calling for us to resolve our differences peacefully, that there is, there is no place for political violence in any of our democracies. You know, these are, these are enduring messages. They’re baked into our political makeup, into your political makeup, that ability for us to look back we had a small difference of opinion in 1776. 1776 we’ve been through that. We’ve- we’ve come a very long way, and that, in a way, for me, is what is so enduring about this relationship. It’s that we’ve had differences. Thatcher to Reagan. Roosevelt with Churchill actually over how to handle Stalin. These are moments in the relationship but actually it endures because it is so deep on security, yes, NATO on our investment. We are the largest investor in 21 states, $430 billion of trade. I mean, the statistics come out, but it’s actually about the people that we want this to focus. So I am, I’m very confident that’s where we will want to focus our time this week. And I should add, the prime minister spoke to the president this morning after the incident, the king sent a personal message to the president and first lady. So actually, in diplomacy, it’s as much personal as it is political.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, on the diplomatic front, the UK has been convening European countries to try to figure out what to do with the Strait of Hormuz after combat ends. You know the Iran file quite well. You were previously a negotiator here. What’s your assessment on who is running Iran right now and whether we see an end to this conflict anytime soon?

AMB. TURNER: So, it’s difficult in in Tehran, there are clearly some divisions. You pointed to that initial disagreement before the war, but since then, Margaret, actually, the UK, has been doing a lot. We were using our bases for defensive strikes. We’ve flown something like 2000 sorties with aircraft in the Middle East shooting down drones and missiles to protect our allies every night, in very close coordination with the US. And, of course, our intelligence base, we don’t talk about it much, but it’s the absolute foundation of of so much that is that is going on. We share the same intent, the same policy as the US. We want to constrain this regime and its threat. We want the straits open again. So this coalition you refer to that President Macron has worked with, with my Prime Minister, Keir Starmer on, what we want, that to do something like 50 countries coming together to work out —

MARGARET BRENNAN: Secretary Hegseth called it silly. He said it was just a bunch of meetings.

AMB. TURNER: Well, it is —

MARGARET BRENNAN: What are you going to plan to do–

AMB. TURNER: Yeah, it is planning, once the straits are open, to ensure that the navigation we need has got the assurance of a whole package of boats, of drones, of intelligence to be able to make sure that shipping goes through. Because that’s what American citizens need. That’s what British citizens need. The people of Asia need. The global economy is suffering, and we want to see that resolved.

MARGARET BRENNAN: It is indeed. Thank you, ambassador, good luck this week. We’ll be right back.

Transcript: Rep. Jamie Raskin on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 26, 2026

2026-04-26T12:14:00-0400 / CBS News

Updated on: April 26, 2026 / 1:40 PM EDT / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 26, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re back now with Maryland Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin. Congressman, you were there last night.

REP. JAMIE RASKIN: Yes, indeed.

MARGARET BRENNAN: One of the guests in the ballroom. Unfortunately, this is not your first encounter with political violence. For many people in that room, the president, Steve Scalise, who survived a shooting himself, Charlie Kirk’s widow was there, RFK Jr. as we mentioned, and you were at that Capitol on January the sixth, sheltering in fear for your life at that period of time. How did that influence what happened last night? What did you do?

REP. RASKIN: So I just entered the room, and I was talking to some reporters who approached me from the Boston Globe. Their table was right near the perimeter. As I was entering the ballroom. Kerry Kennedy was their guest, and we were in conversation when there were three loud booms. Heard some screams, plates, glasses, silverware hitting the ground, and then everybody was yelling, get down. Somebody kind of pushed me from the back, and we all ended up on the floor. When it was over, Kerry, who, of course, lost her father to an assassin gunman and her uncle, President Kennedy, she said, I can’t believe that school children are dealing with this all across America and don’t have the resources to process their trauma. And so that launched a conversation about gun violence and how you know, somewhere between 275 and 300 people are shot every day in our country, and we lose more than 100 of them every day. So even as this nightmare was unfolding at the White House Correspondents Dinner, dozens and dozens of people had been shot and killed in our country. And so I hope this isn’t just an inside the beltway story. I hope we talk about the conditions for school children and people all over the country who are dealing with this.

MARGARET BRENNAN: No, it’s a good point. We had- we benefited from all that security. Those children across the country don’t have a sliver of it.

REP. RASKIN: Well, that’s right. And you know, I heard President Trump talk about this demonstrating the importance of the new ballroom, and he sent out some messages about the ballroom, and that might help people who are visiting the White House, but what about people who are in shopping malls and movie theaters and high schools and elementary schools across the country? So I hope we can have a serious bipartisan national conversation about what we can do to improve public safety for everybody.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, to that point, I mean, we’re in the 10th week of a partial shutdown of Homeland Security, which, by the way, Secret Service, falls under the umbrella of Homeland Security, so do many essential workers. This has been just tangled up in this policy standoff in Congress. Do you think things change after last night?

REP. RASKIN: I certainly hope so. I mean, we, you know, of course, we had a unanimous vote out of the Senate, all the Republicans, all the Democrats, and then all the Democrats in the House vote to restore all of the funding, except for ICE. And of course, it was about ICE killing innocent people in Minneapolis, Alex Pretti and Renee Good that led to this standoff over this so I hope we can improve public safety for everybody.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But it was in the house, and Republican leadership wasn’t willing to do that. But do you think it changes now that Democrats and Republicans will say, let’s fund everything fully?

REP. RASKIN: Yeah, again, we’ve got three quarters of Congress all together on moving forward, resolving the remaining issues and getting everything funded. Fortunately, you know, there’s no interruption in any of ICE’s funding because it was so super, hyper funded originally. So that’s why it’s kind of a made up controversy, because they have the money that they need, but we still have to deal with the underlying issues that led to this in the first place.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: It was the Democrats’ position to hold that up–

REP. RASKIN: –to hold up?

MARGARET BRENNAN: To make the argument over changes, policy wise, to ICE and CBP

REP. RASKIN: Right, after the killings in Minneapolis, yes, absolutely.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood, because you said it was made up–

REP. RASKIN: –The vast majority of the American people agree- well no, what’s made up is the idea that ICE somehow isn’t getting its money.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Got it.

REP. RASKIN: It’s been getting, I mean, it’s got the money for a long time because of the original, you know, the “big, beautiful, bill.”

MARGARET BRENNAN: The president. I want to make sure that I recognize what he said, because we don’t hear him speak this way very often. He said, I asked all Americans to recommit with their hearts, to resolve our difference peacefully, and he talked about being unified with members of the press.

REP. RASKIN: Yes. Well, that certainly- that’s a new message from him. That’s great. He had called the press, of course, the enemy of the people, and he’s been engaged in a lot of lawsuits against your profession.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, yes. We are going into this politically charged midterm season. There’s going to be campaigning around the country with lawmakers out there. I mean, does something change? He said, this, does something change? Does democratic language need to change as well?

REP. RASKIN: We have said all along that we need every politician in the country, every leader in the country, every citizen IN the country denouncing political violence across the board, regardless of where it’s coming from. So, you know, I find this a welcome change in rhetoric. But you know what happened last week, they brought a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose whole purpose is to or is to investigate violent right wing extremism in the country, and now they’re prosecuting them for having used undercover agents, which, of course, the FBI uses and the government uses all the time.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood. And there is, across party lines, some political violence, way too much of it right now. And actually, Speaker Emerita Pelosi on this program said to me recently that she thought the threat or the concern about violence or threats to your family is what is hurting recruitment of people to run for office, particularly mothers, particularly women. Are you seeing that? That people are afraid to even join public life because of this?

REP. RASKIN: Sure, anybody who’s thinking about running for office undoubtedly thinks about that. Anybody who’s thinking about running for president undoubtedly thinks about that. And those people have the most protection with the Secret Service, and other people don’t have the same kind of protection. So look, we’ve got to rediscover the great American tradition of nonviolence and Dr. King and the civilizing movements that have always opposed violence versus the violent groups that have used violence historically, beginning with the Ku Klux Klan, in order to terrorize other people.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Congressman Raskin, thank you for joining us, and we’re glad you were able to do so. We’ll be right back.

Tillis says he’s prepared to move forward with Kevin Warsh’s nomination for Fed chair

April 26, 2026 3:42 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said Sunday that he is prepared to move forward with the nomination of Kevin Warsh for chairman of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, bringing an end to his blockade on nominations to the central bank.

Tillis, a Republican who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, had vowed not to support any nomination to the Fed while the Justice Department continued its investigation into the current chairman, Jerome Powell. But U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Friday that her office would be ending the probe into Powell and the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation of its Washington, D.C., headquarters.

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Tillis said he had received assurances from the Justice Department that the investigation is closed and would only be reopened if the Fed’s inspector general, which is examining the renovation project, made a criminal referral.

“I am prepared to move on with the confirmation of Mr. Warsh,” he said. “I think he’s going to be a great Fed chair.”

In a statement shared to X, Tillis said “it is time for the Federal Reserve to move beyond this distraction and return its full attention to its mission.”

“I have been clear from the start: the U.S. Attorney’s Office criminal investigation into Chair Powell was a serious threat to the Fed’s independence, and it needed to end before I could support Kevin Warsh’s confirmation,” he wrote. “I welcome the Inspector General’s investigation. This is a necessary and appropriate measure, and I have confidence it will be conducted thoroughly and professionally.”

Powell’s term as Fed chairman ends May 15, and Mr. Trump announced in January that he had selected Warsh to lead the central bank’s board. Warsh appeared before the Banking Committee last week. During the hearing, Tillis reiterated that while he supported Warsh’s nomination, he wouldn’t vote to confirm him until the Justice Department ended its investigation.

The Banking Committee is set to convene Wednesday to vote on Warsh’s nomination. There are 13 Republicans on the committee and 11 Democrats.

Powell revealed in January that the Fed had received grand-jury subpoenas as part of the criminal probe involving the years-long project to renovate the central bank’s headquarters. But in March, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg blocked the subpoenas, finding they were part of an effort to pressure Powell into voting to lower interest rates or resign.

Pirro has vowed to appeal the decision. Tillis said Sunday that the Justice Department assured him any appeal would be focused on the judge’s basis for quashing the subpoenas rather than a vehicle for resuming the investigation.

Mr. Trump frequently vents his frustrations with Powell over his interest-rate decisions and suggested last year that the construction at the Fed could be grounds to fire Powell. The renovation project, which encompasses two buildings, was first approved in 2017 and is set to be completed next year. The estimated cost of the project ballooned from $1.9 billion to nearly $2.5 billion, which the Fed said was the result of several factors, including a rise in the cost material, equipment and labor. The central bank is self-funded.

The Fed’s inspector general’s office, which is led by Michael Horowitz, has twice conducted audits regarding the bank’s renovation projects, and Powell told the Senate last year he had asked the watchdog to take another look at the ongoing overhaul of its headquarters.

The inspector general’s office said Friday that it is “actively working” to finish its review of the project and would make its findings available to the public and Congress.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/end-justice-department-powell-probe-could-clear-way-kevin-warsh-confirmation-fed-chair/

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Visualizing the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting incident in maps

2026-04-26T16:51:48.262Z / CNN

By Renée Rigdon, Gillian Roberts, Kevin Liptak, Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa

Published Apr 26, 2026, 12:51 PM ET

A suspected gunman was apprehended Saturday after blowing past a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton just as events were getting underway for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, first lady Melania Trump and many Cabinet officials were ushered to safety after shots were heard outside the ballroom at the iconic Washington, DC, hotel.

Many of CNN’s Washington press corps were in attendance at the event, and immediately flung themselves into reporting on the shooting incident, which acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday morning was likely a targeted attack on Trump administration officials.

CNN mapped what we know about the suspect’s movements and apprehension inside the hotel.

Trump, several of his Cabinet members and many White House journalists made their way after the event’s cancellation back to the White House, about 1.5 miles south of the Hilton, where Trump and Blanche shared details about the incident in the press briefing room.

— CNN’s Alayna Treene, Matthew Philips and Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report.