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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. A man armed with several guns and knives ran into the Washington Hilton Hotel where President Trump was attending the White House Correspondent's Dinner Saturday night. He fired several shots outside the ballroom where the was taking place before he was subdued and taken into custody by Secret Service agents. One agent was shot in his vest and was not seriously injured. Trump and others in the ballroom were unharmed. Afterward, Trump said all Americans need to come together, but in light of this
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evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our difference peacefully. We have to, we have to resolve our differences. I will say you had Republicans, Democrats, Independents, conservatives, liberals and progressives. Those words are interchangeable, perhaps, but maybe they're not. But you had everybody in that room, big crowd, record setting crowd. There was a record setting group of people.
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Several NPR reporters were attending the dinner where the shooting began. Franco Ordona says the scene inside the ballroom was chaotic to just moments after the shots were heard outside the hallway.
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The agents are going, you start to see the cabinet members being pulled off. Secretary Rubio, the Secretary of State, Defense Secretary Pete Hes, you know, obviously Scott Bessant, Treasury Secretary there are reports that that RFK Jr that he was limping. So a lot of confusion. There was just so much confusion in the room at that moment. It was, I mean, it was, it was very chaotic. It was very concerning. It was an eerie silence and people stayed on the ground for minutes, just waiting and waiting until finally people started to creep up. But the confusion lasted for a long time.
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That's NPR's Franco Ordonez with that report. President Trump has canceled sending a delegation to Pakistan for further peace talks with Iran. That decision came after Iran's Foreign minister left Pakistan earlier in the day without meeting with US officials. NPR's Kat Lansdorf reports from Beirut.
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US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son in law Jared Kushner were supposed to travel to Islamabad. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchee left Pakistan after Iranian officials made it clear they only planned to meet with Pakistani officials, not with the U.S. iran has dismissed Trump's unilateral extension of the U. S. Iran ceasefire as, quote, meaningless, saying the continued U. S Blockade on Iranian ports is in violation of that agreement. The U. S is intercepting ships coming to or from Iran. As Iran is maintaining military control of the Strait of Hormuz. Most ships in and around the strait are not moving, and neither side appears to be budging. Cat Lansdorf, NPR News, Beirut.