LOS ANGELES — A man taken into custody after gunfire rang out at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night was identified by law enforcement sources as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, a city in Los Angeles County.

Law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times the FBI is examining Allen’s ...Read more

Few Americans knew the exact timing of the ouster of Venezuela’s leader, but for one military insider it was a sure bet.

In the new world of prediction markets, a U.S. Special Forces operative was recently arrested and accused of using secret, classified military information to bet that Nicolas Maduro would be removed from office by a certain...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than a dozen journalists and a dozen more residents and onlookers were gathered outside the Allen family’s house in Torrance, California, on Sunday morning.

It was a far quieter scene than the night before, when at one point over 100 journalists and curious people stood behind lines of yellow police tape at each end of ...Read more

The future of the National Science Foundation is in question after a slew of scientists who serve on the National Science Board, an independent body that promotes the progress of American science and provides advice to the U.S. president and Congress, were abruptly dismissed from their positions Friday by the White House.

All 22 current members...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump jumped on Saturday night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to add a security rationale to his case for building a massive White House ballroom that he has wanted for years.

“The one good thing is now everybody knows how badly needed it is,” Trump said Sunday on Fox News.

Trump,...Read more

The armed suspect who tried to enter a Washington ballroom where President Donald Trump was speaking was likely targeting administration officials, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

Blanche said Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that the man is believed to have acted alone after traveling by train from California and had been staying ...Read more

The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun from a Torrance, California, firearms dealer eight months before the attack and a semi-automatic pistol two years earlier, according to a law enforcement intelligence profile reviewed by Bloomberg.

Cole Tomas ...Read more

President Donald Trump jumped on Saturday night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to add a security rationale to his case for building a massive White House ballroom that he has wanted for years.

“The one good thing is now everybody knows how badly needed it is,” Trump said Sunday on Fox News.

Trump, who has been ...Read more

Political leaders in California expressed relief that no one was hurt Saturday at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attended by President Donald Trump as a gunman fired shots while trying to enter the ballroom.

Both Democrats and Republicans said they were grateful no one was seriously injured.

A man identified as Cole Tomas Allen of ...Read more

Cole Tomas Allen, the suspected gunman who rattled the nation’s top leaders by exchanging gunfire with federal authorities after racing through the secure perimeter of a press gala in Washington late Saturday, had made a long journey from Southern California and written a “manifesto” threatening Trump administration officials before the ...Read more

The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun from a Torrance, California, firearms dealer eight months before the attack and a semi-automatic pistol two years earlier, according to a law enforcement intelligence profile reviewed by Bloomberg.

Cole Tomas ...Read more

While some Americans wish Barron Trump would enlist in the military to help fight President Trump’s war in the Middle East, the 20-year-old college student appears more interested in following his father’s lead in another way — by becoming a business mogul.

However, Barron Trump’s follow-up to making millions investing in cryptocurrency...Read more

President Donald Trump jumped on Saturday night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to add a security rationale to his case for building a massive White House ballroom that he has wanted for years.

“The one good thing is now everybody knows how badly needed it is,” Trump said Sunday on Fox News.

Trump, who has been ...Read more

Political leaders in California expressed relief that no one was hurt Saturday at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attended by President Donald Trump as a gunman fired shots while trying to enter the ballroom.

Both Democrats and Republicans said they were grateful no one was seriously injured.

A man identified as Cole Tomas Allen of ...Read more

Bayer AG is counting on the U.S. Supreme Court to pare down lawsuits over its top-selling Roundup weedkiller and help corral the decade-long litigation that has cost the company more than $10 billion and cast a pall over its stock price.

Bayer’s attorneys during arguments Monday will urge the high court to overturn a $1.25 million Missouri ...Read more

The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun from a Torrance, California, firearms dealer eight months before the attack and a semi-automatic pistol two years earlier, according to a law enforcement intelligence profile reviewed by Bloomberg.

Cole Tomas ...Read more

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, two former prime ministers of Israel, announced the merging of their parties, creating a new political entity that could outpoll that of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud in the upcoming election.

The party, named Together, will be led by Bennett, a hawk and one-time settler advocate who has edged closer to the ...Read more

Central Florida could be in store for pair of double sonic booms Monday morning with the planned returned landing of both of the side boosters for the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch since 2024.

The company is targeting an 85-minute launch window that opens at 10:21 a.m. for the heavy-lift rocket flying on the ViaSat-3 F3 mission from Kennedy ...Read more

Efforts to resume peace talks over the Iran war stalled after U.S. President Donald Trump canceled a planned trip by his top envoys and the Islamic Republic said it won’t negotiate so long as it’s being threatened.

Trump on Saturday told Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to skip the trip to Pakistan, which is mediating talks, and later told ...Read more

The armed suspect who tried to enter a Washington ballroom where President Donald Trump was speaking was likely targeting administration officials, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

Blanche said Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that the man is believed to have acted alone after traveling by train from California and had been staying ...Read more