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What is driving political violence? | CNN Politics

2026-04-26 1:06 PM EDT / CNN

What is driving political violence?

By Dana Bash, CNN

Published 1:06 PM EDT, Sun April 26, 2026

Former Trump Campaign Adviser David Urban and the panel debate whether overcharged political rhetoric from the right and left is leading to political violence and the targeting of elected officials.

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Who Killed Roxanne Sharp? podcast leads to 4 arrests in decades-old murder of girl in Louisiana

2026-04-26T11:57:00-0400 / CBS/AP

Louisiana police say a podcast helped them solve the decades-old killing of a 16-year-old girl and announced Friday that four men now face criminal charges in connection with her rape and murder.

In 1982, teenager Roxanne Sharp was killed in the woods of St. Tammany Parish, about 30 miles north of New Orleans. Police struggled to solve the case due to a lack of evidence and witnesses willing to come forward. But then, investigators approached a local media company, which agreed to produce a podcast, “Who Killed Roxanne Sharp?” renewing public interest in the case after its six-part series aired last year.

Louisiana State Police spokesperson Marc Gremillion credited the podcast with generating crucial tips from the public and prompting new witnesses to approach investigators.

“It helped our investigators piece together where Roxanne was days before to the time she died, to where we’re at now,” Gremillion told The Associated Press. “It was a very large help with getting that message out to the public, and then, therefore, those witnesses getting back to us.”

Over the past few days, police charged four men with aggravated rape and second-degree murder: Perry Wayne Taylor, 64; Darrell Dean Spell, 64; Carlos Cooper, 64; and Billy Williams, Jr., 62.

Cooper and Taylor were already in prison on unrelated charges, and Williams and Spell were arrested earlier this week. Sharp was an acquaintance of the four arrested suspects and was known to frequent the neighborhood where they lived, Gremillion added.

“We appreciate the hard work and love that has been shown to Roxanne Sharp’s case,” Sharp’s niece, Michele Lappin, said in a statement on behalf of her family. “We hope that with justice will come healing and closure for our family, her loved ones, and the community.”

This photo provided by Michele Lappin shows Roxanne Sharp in Covington, La., in 1980. AP

Billy Williams Jr.’s son, Billy Williams III, said his father is innocent of the crime.

“He thinks they’re putting him in for something he didn’t do,” the younger Williams said. “He says he would never in his life hurt anyone.”

The St. Tammany Parish clerk of court did not have attorneys listed for any of the suspects. Family members of Spell, Cooper and Taylor did not respond to requests for comment via phone numbers associated with them.

“When we started the podcast, we kind of thought nobody cared – we were quickly corrected,” said Charles Dowdy, vice president of Northshore Media, which produced the podcast. “A lot of people stepped up and said they knew Roxanne, they remembered her, they were friends with her.”

Dowdy recorded audio as investigators recreated the crime scene using measuring tapes to mark the exact locations where Sharp’s body was found and where other pieces of evidence were uncovered.

“It clearly showed that she’d been grabbed on the street and dragged into the woods,” Dowdy said.

Police had once thought the case solved after serial killer Henry Lucas claimed responsibility for Sharp’s murder. But Lucas, known for making false confessions, later retracted his claim, and other evidence disproved his connection to the murder.

St. Tammany Parish resident Justin Joiner, 39, told the AP that his father, a Covington police officer, had been one of the first law enforcement to arrive at the scene of Sharp’s death and remained frustrated about the lack of closure for the rest of his life. He kept a briefcase full of his notes on the case until he passed away last year.

“It’s been a big black cloud on the community,” Joiner said. “Nobody would talk about it — it was hush, hush, you talk about it in your house, not in public.”

Joiner added that the podcast opened up discussion about the case across generations and throughout the community.

“Cold cases don’t close themselves,” Covington Police Department Chief Michael Ferrell said in a statement. “They close because people show up, year after year, and refuse to quit. That is exactly what our agencies did, and today, Roxanne and her family finally have the justice they have waited so long for.”

District Attorney Collin Sims echoed that sentiment.

“This case is a powerful example of what persistence, collaboration, and advancements in investigative technology can accomplish. For more than four decades, this victim and her family have waited for answers,” Sims said in a statement. “Today’s arrests reflect our unwavering commitment to pursue justice—no matter how much time has passed—and to hold those responsible fully accountable.”

Podcasts have helped law enforcement solve other cold cases recently. Last year, detectives in Illinois solved a missing person’s cold case and credited the podcast “Somebody Knows Something,” which the Elgin Police Department itself launched. In 2024, a sheriff in South Carolina credited a podcast with helping to identify a 1975 cold case victim, formerly known as “Mr X.”

Artist Jenny Saville on the body as landscape

April 26, 2026 / 9:29 AM EDT / CBS News

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Colossal heads, with luminous faces – intense and inscrutable – line the walls of Jenny Saville’s studio in Oxford, England. She described the portrait’s inner glow: “I’ll just rub the paint in and make it have a sort of inner light that’s left here. It’s a special thing that only paint can do actually.”

And what is it that she hopes to convey? “To distil a sort of essence of what we are as human beings,” she replied. “I mean, I think that if you paint figuratively, that’s what it’s about really. It’s some sort of communication of the unspoken.”

Artist Jenny Saville at her studio with one of her oversized portraits. CBS News

Saville’s breakthrough came in the early 1990s, with her audacious self-portrait “Propped,” which would later sell for more than $12 million at auction. It had initially caught the eye of collector Charles Saatchi, who saw it at her art school degree show, and commissioned more.

“Propped” by Jenny Saville (1992). Oil on canvas. © Jenny Saville

“It’s incredible opportunity for a 21-year-old,” Saville said. “He just said, ‘Make whatever you like.’ And I stood in the space, I saw the back wall and thought, I’m gonna make a triptych. And I just got to work, really.”

Like “Propped,” that triptych, titled “Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face),” was a bold rendering of a woman’s body.

Asked where her fascination with flesh began, Saville said, “There’s not a sort of start point. Freud, Bacon, Auerbach, Picasso, Degas, they were all artists that I liked. Egon Schiele, De Kooning – people that painted the body. Old master painters like Titian, Velasquez. They were painters that I just was drawn to looking at. You just develop along a certain way and build your language.”

Saville’s own gaze was both curious and clinical. From her first solo show, the painting “Planned” depicts a torso marked up for liposuction. “If you have a cosmetic surgery book or a plastic surgery book, it will show you how flesh is moved around the body in order to keep it alive for reconstruction of a breast, for example,” she said. “And I found that fascinating to extend my knowledge really of the body.”

But she says she doesn’t see treating the body as a landscape as a way to objectify the body: “I didn’t see it as objectifying. I just saw it as the relationship with nature.”

An installation view of the recent exhibition “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting,” at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. CBS News

A recent retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth exhibited more than three decades of Saville’s work, with a real focus on those arresting heads, most of them female. She said, “It was never a sort of conscious decision: ‘Okay, I’m only gonna paint women.’ I just did. And that became a language. I did a lot of self-portraits.”

That language tackled the universal experience of motherhood, too. “The kind of wriggling, the sense of growth – it’s a particular period in a woman’s life that’s just absolutely amazing and poignant and full of abundance,” she said of her 2011 painting “The Mothers.” “I wanted to communicate that.”

Saville’s latest exhibition, which opened in Venice this weekend, features her newest work. At 55, she is a giant in the modern art world, with the kind of success few living artists achieve.

Asked if she finds it gratifying that her paintings can sell in the millions, she replied, “I find a studio is the purest space for me, and I leave all of that at the door. So, when I come in here, I just don’t think like that. You know, this painting isn’t gonna get better because it’s gonna be worth more money.”

“Drift, 2020–22” by Jenny Saville. Oil and oil stick on canvas. © Jenny Saville. All rights reserved. DACS 2024

Asked if she would spend millions of pounds to buy a painting, Saville laughed: “I’ve never thought about that! Of course it’s absurd. A painting can be the price of a house that a family can live in, and when you look at it like that you think, this is absurd. And on the other flip side of that, if you look through the history of art, art tended to get very good in moments where there have been financial support of artists and art, whether that’s the Renaissance, through the papacy or commissions. And we are living through one of those times where we value art financially and culturally. Whether you can take those two things apart, I just don’t know.”

But she says she definitely feels lucky. “Oh my gosh. Absolutely!” she said. “You know, I’ve lived my life doing the activity that I loved when I was a kid. It’s really who I am. I think you can ask any painter or sculptor or filmmaker or anybody creative, a dancer, a musician, it’s a good way to live.”

Kacey Musgraves on writing lyrics: “There is no greater drug”

April 26, 2026 / 10:11 AM EDT / CBS News

When singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves went home to East Texas a couple of years ago to heal from a breakup, she saw a sign: “Golden, Texas, somewhere in the middle of nowhere.”

“And I was like, ‘That’s a song,’” she said. “Okay, a record called ‘Middle of Nowhere,’ I feel like I’m in the middle of nowhere right now.”

Soon the rest of an album started to spill out, such as the song “Dry Spell.” “I had that title written down in my phone, ’cause quite literally I was going through a dry spell!”

_It’s been a real long

Three-hundred and thirty-five days

And the last time

It wasn’t good anyway …_

_Ain’t nobody’s tool up in my shed

Ain’t nobody’s boots under my bed

Ain’t nobody’s truck up in my drive

For a late-night call, for a real good time

Ain’t no new notches on my belt

And I’m tired of keeping my hands to myself

911, it’s officially a cry for help

Y’all, I’m going through a dry spell, yep_

To hear Kacey Musgraves perform “Dry Spell,” from her album “Middle of Nowhere,” click on the video player below:

Kacey Musgraves – Dry Spell (Official Music Video) by KaceyMusgravesVEVO on YouTube

Asked if she gets excited writing a great lyric, Musgraves replied, “There is no greater drug, yes! Mostly I’m always in competition with myself. Can I beat myself? Can I make this better? Leaving that day and playing it in your car, you’re like, ‘Okay, I have not lost it.’ You’re like, ‘That was good!’

“I remember, like, back in the day with ‘Space Cowboy,’ I was on the treadmill one day. And I heard the words ‘space cowboy’ in my mind. But then I heard it, like, Space comma cowboy. You know like, you can have your space, cowboy! But when people see the title they’re gonna think that it’s space cowboy. Ooh, got you!”

“Space Cowboy” won Musgraves a Grammy for best country song in 2019. The same year, she won album of the year for “Golden Hour.”

Musgraves started out performing the Texas circuit at spots like Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth.

“It’s a really big deal, I don’t know if you know this, but when you sell out Billy Bob’s you get to put your hands in the concrete,” she said, showing off her handprints on the wall. “These are my hands. They still fit!”

Kacey Musgraves shows off her handprints on the Billy Bob’s Wall of Fame. CBS News

Musgraves started playing publicly when she was eight or nine. She grew up a couple hours’ drive from Fort Worth, in a “little bitty town” called Golden.

Thirteen years ago, “Sunday Morning” visited Musgraves and her family at her parents’ house. “We all sat around the table, we all had very interesting hair choices at that point in time,” Musgraves said. “I re-watched it recently. and I was like, ‘Wow! My bangs, I don’t know what’s happening.’”

From the archives: Anthony Mason’s profile of Kacey Musgraves from 2013 (Video)

From 2013: Kacey Musgraves on her debut album 06:31

“And my grandparents were there. You took a visit to, I think, my grandpa’s record collection, which he still has,” she said. “And it’s still just as unorganized. It’s a little treasure hunt!”

One of Musgraves’ earliest influences was John Prine. “I like to think he’s a bit of a little guardian angel,” she said. “He was a mentor for sure to me.”

Prine died of COVID in 2020. Musgraves’ song “Cardinal,” on her last album, was a tribute to Prine.

_I saw a sign or an omen

On the branches in the morning

It was right after I

Lost a friend without warning_

_Cardinal

Are you bringing me a message from the other side?_

She said, “I really do feel like he sent me messages. And the cardinal kept visiting. I know that was a major symbol for him.

“We actually tried to write a song one time,” she said. “I went to his house in Nashville, and we didn’t end up even finishing anything, ’cause I was just listening to his stories all day. He said, ‘Well, we’re probably not gonna write a song, are we?’ I’m like, ‘No, probably not!’” Still, it was, she said, an “awesome day.”

“Middle of Nowhere” is Musgraves’ sixth album. Her first five albums all hit #1 on the country chart. Her sister, Kelly, took the cover photo, of Kacey posing with a bull. “I called my friend Evan, I was like, ‘Do you have any bulls that you could bring?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, actually I’ve got a really sweet one. His name is Tex.’ And at one point like, the police come over. They’re like, ‘Do you guys have a permit for this?’ And we’re like, ‘No?’ And they were like, ‘All right.’”

Lost Highway Records

In writing her new record, Musgraves says she learned how to embrace being alone: “It’s nice just to be able to stop the tape and kind of evaluate, like, ‘Okay, why do I make these choices? How am I drawn to certain archetypes of people? What does that say about me?’”

What did she realize when she asked those questions? “Well, I don’t have all the answers,” she replied. “Do we ever? Yeah, we really don’t know. Now, I realize that there’s nothing more lonely than being in a relationship that isn’t right for you. It’s way more lonely than being actually just by yourself.”

Correspondent Anthony Mason with Kacey Musgraves. CBS News

And after 335 days, she isn’t in the middle of nowhere anymore. “The dry spell was broken, I’ll just say that,” she laughed. “The dry spell is broken, I’ve got everything I need!”

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Watch an extended interview with Kacey Musgraves (Video)

Extended interview: Kacey Musgraves 14:38

For more info:

• The album”Middle of Nowhere”by Kacey Mugraves (Lost Highway Records) will be released May 1 and is available for pre-order
• kaceymusgraves.com (Official site)
• Billy Bob’s Texas, Fort Worth

Story produced by Jon Carras and Lucie Kirk. Editor: Lauren Barnello.

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The long history of America’s conflict with Cuba

April 26, 2026 / 11:13 AM EDT / CBS News

With so much attention on Iran in recent weeks, you may have missed the news about the increasingly tense situation with another longtime adversary of the United States – one closer to home.

On April 13, while making remarks about the war in Iran, President Trump said, “We may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this.”

The U.S. has blocked nearly all oil shipments into Cuba, pushing it to the brink of collapse. Meanwhile, high-level talks between the two countries are underway.

Mr. Trump hasn’t offered details, but has said this: “All my life I’ve been hearing about the United States and Cuba: when will the United States do it? I do believe I’ll be the honor, having the honor of taking Cuba.”

• Why is Trump talking about action on Cuba and what could that look like?

The island nation just 90 miles from Florida has indeed played an outsized role in our foreign policy for close to 70 years. But back in the 1950s, most Americans thought of Cuba as little more than a hedonistic paradise.

It was “a playground where anything goes, where there are casinos, where there’s prostitution … and to a great extent, that was true,” said Jorge Malagon Marquez, a Cuban-American, and a professor of history at Miami Dade college. “You had celebrities like Frank Sinatra coming down. It’s party time.

“What Americans weren’t seeing was the dissatisfaction amongst regular Cubans running just below the surface,” he said.

Many Cubans were subsisting, and working in industries outright owned by Americans. “Cubans loved Americans coming as tourists or what have you, but it was the control of the economy that really bothered them,” Marquez said. And for many Cubans, memories were still fresh from half a century earlier when, after the Spanish American War, the U.S. won a “sort of” independence for Cuba in 1902.

But was Cuba really independent? “It’s independence like independence I gave my teenage kids,” laughed Marquez, “which means like, ‘Sure, you’re independent, so long as you’re home by 10 o’clock.’”

Mo Rocca with Miami Dade College history professor Jorge Malagon Marquez, whose family fled Cuba in 1967. CBS News

Yes, Cuba was a sovereign nation, but the United States could intervene anytime its interests were at stake – which it did repeatedly, until the 1930s. And so, by the late 1950s, conditions were ripe for revolution.

But if other Latin American countries had grievances against the United States, what was it about Cuba that allowed a decades-long communist dictatorship to take root there? “It’s Fidelismo,” said Marquez. “It’s a cult of personality. If it had been anybody else, this would’ve fizzled out within the first couple of years.”

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. CBS News

The late Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, and became a central actor in the Cold War, sparking fears of Communism spreading in the Americas. His authoritarian regime has survived a decades-long trade embargo … a missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war … and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba’s longtime patron.

Marquez still remembers the hold Castro had over a five-year-old growing up in Cuba: “I was, like, in first grade or just starting first grade. And they have something called the Pioneers for the Revolution – you wear a red scarf. And they would ask, ‘Bow your heads and pray to God for candy.’ And the children would bow their heads and pray to God for candy … and open your eyes.”

After no candy appeared, the children would be told, “‘Bow your heads, close your eyes, and ask Fidel for candy.’ … I wish I were making this up! And lo and behold, there will be the candy.”

Marquez and his family fled Cuba in 1967, among the more than 1.5 million who have left the island for the U.S. since the early 1960s.

Elsa and Becky Cobo’s late father, Arturo, was a teenager in Havana in 1960 when he witnessed his own father’s bank being seized by the regime. “He saw the military come and take basically the keys from my grandfather and tell him, ‘Go,’ and that’s when he said, ‘We gotta do something,’” said Elsa.

A group of U.S.-backed Cuban exiles who attempted an invasion at the Bay of Pigs are seen after being captured by Castro’s soldiers, on the Playa de Giron, Cuba, April 1961. Three Lions/Getty Images

Arturo escaped to the U.S., and enlisted in the CIA-trained brigade of Cuban exiles who, in April 1961, landed at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs in a secret operation meant to overthrow the Castro regime. The soldiers were expecting air cover from the Americans. At the last minute, though, Democratic President John F. Kennedy pulled the plug – a turn of events Cuban-Americans never forgot.

“They were basically left there to die,” said Elsa.

Asked why so many Cuban-Americans are so staunchly Republican, Marquez replied, “Bay of Pigs. That’s it. You don’t have to go further than that.”

• How Fidel Castro stood up to the U.S., and won (“Sunday Morning”)

Arturo Cobo spent nearly two years in a Cuban prison. When he was released, he settled in Key West, Fla., where his daughters still live today.

There, Arturo helped wave after wave of refugees arriving from his home country. Many didn’t survive the voyage.

At the Key West Botanical Garden, you can see evidence of their desperation – makeshift rafts used by Cubans to reach America, some made of Styrofoam.

Some examples of makeshift Cuban refugee boats, or “chugs,” that made the 90-mile crossing to Florida. CBS News

Arturo Cobo died in 2019. He, like so many others who fled Castro’s Cuba, never returned. “They came over hoping that one day Cuba would be free,” said Becky, “and never imagined … they would not see the day that that would happen.”

• As Trump continues to strike a deal with Cuba, exiles in South Florida hope to recuperate seized property

Jorge Malagon Marquez says those waves of migration have remade South Florida. But their absence in Cuba may also help explain the regime’s longevity: “Those that would have been willing to rise up? Gone. I mean, you gotta give it to Fidel Castro. He was brilliant, you know, in a sort of, like, evil way. He was the evil genius.”

But Castro died in 2016, and the Cold War is long over. Few believe Cuba poses the threat that it once did to the U.S. The Cuban economy, never robust under communist rule, has been in freefall since the pandemic, with nearly a fifth of the population leaving since 2021.

A deepening energy and economic crisis, fueled in part by economic sanctions by the United States, has left Cuba dependent on foreign assistance and oil shipments from allied countries, including Mexico and Russia. CBS News

And now the Trump administration is turning the screws on an already-failing state, worsening its humanitarian crisis. Mr. Trump said of Cuba, “Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it.”

Cubans on both sides of the Florida Straits are pondering what comes next.

White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect sent “manifesto” to family, who alerted police, source says

2026-04-26T11:07:00-0400 / CBS News

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Updated on: April 26, 2026 / 11:39 AM EDT / CBS News

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect wrote a “manifesto” which stated he wanted to specifically target administration officials, law enforcement and White House officials told CBS News.

Authorities also found anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on the suspect’s social media accounts, the official said.

Cole Allen, 31, sent some of his writings to members of his family before the attempted attack on Saturday, and one of them alerted police about the writings. The writings sent to family members apparently did not specifically mention the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Another family member who was interviewed by investigators after the attack said Allen made radical statements and that he constantly referenced a plan to do “something” to fix the issues with today’s world.

Family members told investigators Allen would regularly go to the shooting range to train with his guns. He legally owned two guns, one of which was used in the shooting at the Washington Hilton Hotel, law enforcement officials told CBS News.

Allen’s family members also said he was part of a group called “The Wide Awakes” and attended a “No Kings” protest in California.

How the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting and response unfolded

2026-04-26T08:26:00-0400 / CBS News

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Updated on: April 26, 2026 / 9:58 AM EDT / CBS News

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Gunfire at the Washington Hilton Saturday night abruptly halted the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. A man allegedly armed with two firearms and knives breached a Secret Service checkpoint outside the ballroom. He was stopped by law enforcement before he could reach the dinner where President Trump and 2,600 guests had gathered. A Secret Service officer was hit by a round and protected by a bulletproof vest, authorities said.

Here is a moment-by-moment account of the events, according to authorities and eyewitness accounts. All times are eastern daylight time.

8:34:29 PM: Security checkpoint is breached

https://youtu.be/PnPNIgWudYA

A person barrels at full tilt through a Secret Service metal detector, stunning a half dozen officers nearby. He’s sprinting so fast he nearly clips one officer in plainclothes, who draws a sidearm. A swarm of officers chase after him.

The security checkpoint is separated from the 30,000square-foot ballroom by a staircase. About 2,600 people are inside, one floor below, eating an appetizer course of bread and salad.

Security camera video of the breach is posted by Mr. Trump on Truth Social.

8:34:33 PM: Rapid fire of gunshots is heard

https://youtu.be/tRwYnel0eBI

A series of rapid gunshots can be heard in the ballroom. On the dais where President Trump is seated, the gunshots are muted, if audible at all. Some think a member of the waitstaff had dropped serving trays. For guests in the back of the venue, closer to the incident, the sound and smell of gunpowder are unmistakable.

At the time shots were fired, mentalist Oz Pearlman, the entertainer for the evening, can be seen at the head table performing a trick for Mr. Trump, first lady Melania Trump, press secretary Karoline Leavitt and White House Correspondents’ Association President Weijia Jiang.

Pearlman later confirms to CBS News he was trying to guess the name of Leavitt’s unborn daughter who is due next week.

It takes more than 20 seconds for the president to be whisked off stage by his security detail.

Around 8:34:35 PM: Guests take cover

https://youtu.be/Nq9OQtVoL_I

Guests in the raised seating area at the back of the ballroom begin to take cover on the floor and under tables. Some take out their phones to shoot video of the unfolding scene.

Around 8:34:40 PM: Security rushes in

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Moments after the shots, security officers rush up the center aisle, climbing over chairs and fanning out to their protectees. Some Cabinet members and members of Congress are crouched under tables.

8:34:45 PM: Trump is evacuated

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Secret Service agents run on stage. An agent grabs Vice President Vance – who is still seated at the head table – by the shoulders, and pulls him out of his chair. He is escorted offstage within four seconds, while the president is still on stage.

Across the stage, a Secret Service agent stands in front of Mr. Trump, blocking him from view. Mr. Trump remains seated, the first lady visible next to him, while Pearlman stands behind them holding a paper from his trick.

At the same moment Vance exits the stage, the first lady starts to lower herself to the floor, and four seconds later President Trump starts to get out of his chair after agents yell to “stay down.”

Leavitt and others seated at the head table get on the ground. Two Secret Service agents pull Mr. Trump up and start to escort him offstage. After taking several steps, Mr. Trump is lowered to the ground and covered by four agents. Leavitt exits the stage at a crouch. Mr. Trump then stands back up, and he and the first lady are escorted offstage by Secret Service. Mr. Trump exits the stage 20 seconds after Vice President Vance.

8:35:47 PM: Security sweeps continue

https://youtu.be/2w7zFQlXBUs

Law enforcement with guns drawn occupy a stairwell at the rear of the ballroom. An agent shouts: “Is anyone in the kitchen? Is anybody in the kitchen?” Behind a swinging set of doors a nervous kitchen staff is lined up and stands with arms raised as agents, weapons drawn, clear the area.

8:37 PM: Administration officials escorted out

https://youtu.be/ns8DKV4lok0

Security details start moving dignitaries from the ballroom.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche are escorted out as dinner attendees continue to take cover under their tables. A Capitol Police detail hustles House Majority Leader Steve Scalise through the room.

9:17 PM: Trump posts on social media

9:17 PM: President Trump posts on Truth Social that the shooter has been apprehended and that he “recommended that we ‘LET THE SHOW GO ON’ but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement.” pic.twitter.com/OLfrLiCjkN

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Mr. Trump posts on Truth Social that the shooter has been apprehended and that he “recommended that we ‘LET THE SHOW GO ON’ but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement.” He adds: “Regardless of that decision, the evening will be much different than planned, and we’ll just, plain, have to do it again.”

9:39:12 PM: “We run to a crisis, not from it”

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Jiang returns to the podium to announce the dinner will not go on as scheduled. She adds that the president insists the dinner be rescheduled in the next 30 days.

“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,” Jiang says to the room full of reporters. “And on a night when we are thinking about the freedoms in the First Amendment, we must also think about how fragile they are.”

Transcript: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 26, 2026

2026-04-26T09:07:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 26, 2026.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche. Welcome, good morning, and I’m glad you are safe, sir. It was a harrowing–

ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE: Good morning, you as well.

MARGARET BRENNAN: It was a harrowing night, I want to get straight to what we know now, in the light of day. The FBI, as I understand it, has gone to a home in Torrance, California, believed to belong to the alleged shooter, most likely into his DC hotel room as well. What have they discovered there? What do we know?

BLANCHE: Yes, that’s right. So the FBI worked all night, working with local law enforcement, working with the Secret Service. They’ve executed various search warrants on locations, also on devices that were recovered from the suspect. This investigation is just over 12 hours old, so we still are actively looking at everything that happened, but as of now, we- we have- we have collected a fair amount of evidence, which we’re now going through.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Any indication at this point that he was part of a group? Was there any foreign nexus to the inspiration for the violence he attempted last night?

BLANCHE: We’re still looking into motivation, and that’s something that hopefully we’ll learn over the next couple of days. We do believe, based upon just a very preliminary start to understanding what happened, that he was targeting members of the administration. We don’t- we don’t have specifics beyond that kind of general statement from what we’ve learned so far, but we are- we’re actively talking to witnesses that knew him, and talking to other individuals and going through the material that we’ve collected. So I expect that you will hear more, more about that in the coming days.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You mentioned a statement, is the shooter- alleged shooter, sharing details on what he was attempting to do? What makes you say it was a threat to administration officials writ large?

BLANCHE: Just based on the evidence we’ve collected. Not, not a statement from, from the suspect, just from- from what we’ve learned in our preliminary investigation, he’s not actively cooperating. I expect that he will be formally charged tomorrow morning in federal court in Washington, DC, and we’ll go from there.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So the Secret Service has said that the suspected gunman was staying in the hotel. He walked up to a security checkpoint with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives. How long had he been inside that hotel, and was there a security protocol for- for guests?

BLANCHE: That’s- we’re still, we’re still understanding the security protocols that led to him being, being able to have firearms in that hotel. We do believe he was staying in the hotel in the days leading up to last night. We believe that he traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and then from Chicago to Washington, DC. As far as what happened with him coming down and breaching the perimeter, as you’ve seen from some videos that have already been released, he was apprehended and subdued feet away from breaking the perimeter so- so we were all safe inside, and that’s a testament to the Secret Service doing their job, and to law enforcement doing exactly what we, we hope and expect them to do in a time- they train for this their entire careers, and many of them never actually see it happen in real time, and it happened last night, and they reacted exactly as they should have.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So the alleged shooter, as we just said, had multiple weapons in his possession. Here in the District of Columbia, open carry is not permitted. You just said he traveled from California across the country by train. At this point, are you thinking at the federal level of changing security protocols in any way to, for example, match on trains what you are expected to go through when you fly where you do have to declare a weapon when you cross state lines. How did he travel by train without any challenge and arrive here in the nation’s capital?

BLANCHE: Look, this isn’t about, in my mind, changing the law or making the laws more restrictive around possession of firearms. It appears he purchased these firearms the past couple years. We don’t know how those firearms ended up in his possession in DC. We can, we can make some assumptions based upon what I just said about how he got to DC, but I don’t, I don’t think the narrative here is about changing laws or changing- making. making our laws more restrictive. This is about law enforcement who are doing their jobs and a suspect who tried to do something and failed miserably.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I’m not talking about changing the law in terms of possession of a firearm. I’m asking about crossing state lines with that firearm and arriving at the capital. If you try to fly, you do have to have your firearms declared in some way. You don’t when you get on a train.

BLANCHE: Well, look, you are talking about, I mean, if we’re asking the question, that’s talking about changing the laws, and I don’t think that’s something that we should be focused on right now in any way, shape or form–

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, not a loophole in your–

BLANCHE: There are lots of ways that- yeah, so I mean, look, the we don’t and we also don’t know. We don’t have all the answers this morning. We’re still looking into, into what happened, how he got the guns, if he got them legally? But what we do know is that- is that he tried to use them. He did have two firearms and some knives on his person when he tried to use them, and he was stopped before he got anywhere near the president before he got near any of us that were in the room at the time of that this occurred and- and that’s, that’s again, we can’t, we can’t overlook, and I’m not suggesting you are, but we can’t overlook the great work of the Secret Service last night.

MARGARET BRENNAN: No, absolutely. We’re all thankful for that. But we do see these kind of threats at the local and state level as well, for those who aren’t as heavily protected as all of us in that room were last night, which is why I ask you, if you’re reviewing that. US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, said the suspect will be charged with two counts, using a firearm during a violent crime and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. Do you at this point anticipate further charges?

BLANCHE: Yes, I- we’ll see about further charges. So that’s one of the things that we need to go through the evidence. So there’s a lot of federal charges that could be in play beyond those two charges, but it depends on what – it depends on us understanding his motive, his intent, his premeditation, that what led into him, him deciding that he was going to do what he did last night. But just to be clear, those are very serious charges. He will have a – he will face a judge as early as tomorrow morning for those two charges, but but the investigation is brand new, and so we will continue to investigate. And if there’s more charges, they’ll they’ll be brought. He’ll be charged via complaint, and that’ll be tomorrow morning, and then an indictment will come, will come thereafter, and there could be additional charges in that indictment, but we have to see as the evidence develops.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you must have attended past correspondence dinners. I mean, for over 50 years, they’ve been held at this hotel. Last night, it was extraordinary, because we had the president, the vice president, the speaker of the house, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the secretary of the treasury, all in the same room. Those are five out of the top six leaders in that – that line of succession for this country, should something have actually happened to the president himself. Was there planning for that? I mean, when we have the state of the union, there’s a designated survivor. Was there an increased concern about gathering all of our leadership in that room last night?

BLANCHE: We will not stop doing things like we did last night in this administration and this man, if his, one of his goals was to get us to be scared, he failed. And let me just, let me make clear that you’re right, all those folks were in the room and more, and yet we were all safe. Law enforcement did their jobs, and so President Trump said last night, and he means it, and I very much agree with him that this type of conduct will not deter him, it will not stop him from living, it will not stop him from doing his job. And that not is not – not only him, but the vice president, the cabinet, the law enforcement, you all, journalists, you’re not going to stop doing your jobs either because of this, of this lone man that did what he did. And so this is a, this is something that that we all are still reacting to because it’s fresh, but I assure you that the types of things that you saw last night and the president being out there and available to the American public, that will not change because of what this guy tried to do last night.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, there has been reporting over the past few months that due to this increased threat environment, both on the domestic front, but also because of the war in Gaza because of the war in Iran, that there is an intensity to this moment and that there had been an effort to not allow the vice president and president to be together because of the risk. Why was that different?

BLANCHE: Vice president and president are together almost every day. I mean, they’re they’re together constantly so of course security–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –in a public event. So that’s false reporting?

BLANCHE: That’s well, I see them together all the time. They were certainly together last night. And so look, I’m not minimizing the threats that President Trump and the vice president and that all the cabinet face every day for the reasons that you just described domestically. Iran internationally. And that is why we have a robust law enforcement keeping us safe and doing their jobs. It allows the vice president and president to do the work they need to do. It allows the secretary of state to do the work that he needs to do. And so on the one hand, we take those threats very seriously. Always have and we always will. On the other hand, we do not the way we respond to those threats is not to go into a bunker and hide, it’s to trust the law enforcement that are that are keeping us safe and and that’s what happened last night, and that’s what I think will we will continue to see going forward.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So as I understand it, there was one injured Secret Service agent, but as the president said, he was wearing a bulletproof vest. Can you tell us if he’s been released from the hospital? And to be clear, there were- there was gunfire happening. We believe from our reporting that the shooter did get off some rounds. Was it the alleged shooter or alleged assailant here who shot the Secret Service agent?

BLANCHE: That’s what we that’s what we understand as of now. And the president spoke with him last night. He was in great spirits. He apparently didn’t really even want to go to the hospital, although he was, he was certainly injured, and it was the right thing as far as whether he’s been released, I I don’t want to get into his, you know, his medical situation. That’s not fair to him, but enough to say that we all heard his voice last night, the president gave him words of encouragement and appreciation and thanking him for the work that he’s doing for all of us and and I will tell you, he was in very good spirits, and so that’s a tragedy avoided, and it is because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I have to let you go. But writ large, is there thought of increasing the country’s security posture after last night?

BLANCHE: We have every single day we’re focused on our security, and so I promise you that that the work that we were doing yesterday will continue today, and if there’s things that we need to adjust, I will. But last night was of all the bad things that happened last night, and there were a lot. It was a tragic evening. It was also a success story when it comes to the Secret Service and FBI and law enforcement, of which we’re we’re very grateful.

MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. Todd Blanche, thank you for your insights, and we’ll be tracking the investigation as it develops. ‘Face the Nation will be back in a minute, stay with us.

意甲裁判负责人涉体育欺诈 “自行停职”被立案调查

2026年4月26日 23:24 / 联合早报

负责在意甲和意乙联赛指派裁判的罗基（图）因涉嫌体育欺诈，已被米兰检方立案调查。 （取自互联网）

（米兰法新电）负责意大利足球甲级联赛和乙级联赛的裁判指派工作的罗基（Rocchi），因涉嫌“体育欺诈”被米兰检方立案调查，目前已暂时停职。

罗基星期六（25日）发布声明称，他决定“自行停职”，暂停负责为意大利两级联赛指派裁判的工作。

他说：“这是痛苦且艰难的决定……但都是为了让司法程序能够顺利进行，而我确信自己最终将被证明是清白的。”

视频助理裁判（VAR）负责人杰尔瓦索尼 （Gervasoni）也因同样指控，正在接受调查。

检方指出，罗基与其他未具名嫌疑人曾操控裁判指派工作，包括在去年4月让科伦坡（Colombo）执法国际米兰（Inter Milan）客场对阵博洛尼亚（Bologna）的比赛，理由是他“更受国米青睐”。

不过在这场比赛中，国米最终以0比1告负，对手凭借奥尔索利尼（Orsolini）的补时绝杀取胜。

罗基还被指控曾向一名VAR裁判施压，要求其促使场上主裁马雷斯卡（Fabio Maresca）在去年3月乌迪内斯（Udinese）1比0战胜帕尔马（Parma）的比赛中，前往场边屏幕查看一次手球判罚。

当时，无论是场上主裁马雷斯卡，还是VAR室内的帕特纳（Paterna），都已认定不应判罚罚球。

然而，在一段VAR室视频中，可以看到帕特纳在与画面外某人交谈后转身离开显示器，并表明“这是个罚球”。

检方称，当时正是罗基敲击VAR室的门，试图向帕特纳施压，要求其改变不复核手球的决定，最终该判罚促成托万 （Thauvin）攻入全场唯一进球。

在意大利，“体育欺诈”属于刑事犯罪，最高可判处六年监禁。相关案卷也将移交意大利足总，其内部检察部门可能会另行展开调查。

Blanche says Trump’s public appearances “will not change” because of this “lone man”

April 26, 2026 / 9:25 AM EDT / CBS News

The attempted attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner Saturday by a “lone man” will “not stop” President Trump from doing his job and appearing in public before the American people, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday.

In an interview with “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” the morning after shots were fired at the event at the Washington Hilton, Brennan asked if there was a heightened concern about the presence of so many of the nation’s leaders — including the president, Vice President JD Vance and other Cabinet members — in one room. The vice president and president were whisked off stage and out of the room by law enforcement, while other Cabinet officials and members of Congress huddled on the floor and under tables.

Blanche said the president and his top officials “will not stop” making public appearances.

“We will not stop doing things like we did last night in this administration,” Blanche said. “And this man, if one of his goals was to get us to be scared, he failed.”

“President Trump said last night, and he means it — and I very much agree with him — that this type of conduct will not deter him, it will not stop him from living,” Blanche continued. “It will not stop him from doing his job. And not only him, but the vice president, the Cabinet, the law enforcement, you all journalists, you’re not going to stop doing your jobs either because of this — this lone man that did what he did.”

“And so, this is something that we all are still reacting to because it’s fresh, but I assure you that the type of things you saw the president last night and the president being out there and available to the American public, that will not change because of what this guy tried to do last night,” Blanche added.

Blanche said authorities believe the suspect in the attack, 31-year-old Cole Allen, was targeting Trump administration officials. He is expected to face two charges, using a firearm during a violent crime and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Saturday night. Blanche said Sunday that there may be additional charges, too.

Allen is expected to appear in court on Monday.

Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.

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