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  • Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting

    WASHINGTON (AP) – A man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner while armed with guns and knives pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he attempted to kill President Donald Trump and fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer who tried to stop the attack. Bernie Bennett reports.

    POSSIBLE OUT CUE: Pirro and Blanche were in attendance at the dinner, when Allen ran past a check point and shot the secret service agent.

    VERBATIM: Cole Tomas Allen was handcuffed and shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit when he appeared in federal court for his arraignment Monday.

    Allen didn’t speak during the brief hearing. One of his attorneys entered the plea on his behalf.

    Allen’s lawyers are asking U .S. District Judge Trevor McFadden to disqualify Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from direct involvement in prosecuting him because they could be considered victims or witnesses in the case, creating a potential conflict of interest.

    Bernie Bennett in Washington.


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  • Iran-US

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran and the United States have reached an impasse again over how to end their war.

    Bernie Bennett reports.

    VERBATIM:

    Their ceasefire is growing increasingly shaky, with the two sides exchanging fire in recent days, ships and Gulf states being targeted, and fighting flaring between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The volatility could tip the Middle East back into open warfare and prolong the worldwide energy crisis sparked by the conflict.

    President Donald Trump is expected to use a trip this week to China to urge Chinese President Xi Jinping to pressure Iran into making concessions and end the current limbo. The President rejected Iran’s most recent proposal via Pakistan over the weekend.

    Bernie Bennett in Washington.


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  • Virginia-Redistricting

    The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that had won voter approval. Bernie Bennett has this report.

    VERBATIM:

    The court’s 4-3 decision Friday marked a major setback for Democrats in a nationwide redistricting battle with Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

    The plan approved April 21 by voters could have helped Democrats win up to four additional U.S. House seats. But the court said state lawmakers violated procedural requirements when referring the plan to the ballot.

    A recent U.S, Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act has been used by Republicans in several Southern states to try to eliminate congressional districts held by Black Democratic lawmakers.

    Bernie Bennett in Washington.


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  • Jobs Report

    America’s employers a delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month despite an economic shock from the Iran war.

    OUT CUE: Correspondent Bernie Bennett reporting.

    VERBATIM: Hiring was better than the 65,000 that economists had expected, though it decelerated from the 185,000 jobs created in March.

    The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.3%. The war has caused the biggest disruption of global oil supplies in history and sent average U.S. gasoline prices surging past $4.50 a gallon this week.

    But the conflict hasn’t done much damage to the American job market so far.


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  • Jobless Claims

    WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. jobless claim applications rose last week but remain at historically low levels despite elevated inflation and other economic headwinds. More from Bernie Bennett.

    VERBATIM:

    The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits in the week ending May 2 rose by 10,000 to 200,000. That’s fewer than the 205,000 new applications analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet were expecting.

    The previous week’s new claims figure, which was the fewest since 1969, was revised up by 1,000 to 190,000.

    Weekly filings for unemployment benefits are considered a proxy for U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.


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