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Hannah Jewell
Investigations are underway into the White House correspondents dinner shooting. That's where we're starting the Seven from the Washington Post, I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Monday, April 27th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. On Saturday evening, a man stormed the security perimeter at the annual gathering of journalists and government officials in Washington, D.C. law enforcement said he aimed to target top officials who were attending the dinner, including possibly President Donald Trump. The suspect has been identified as 31 year old Cole Thomas Allen of California, a part time teacher, former engineering student and game designer. Minutes before the shooting, Allen sent a message to his family apologizing for what he said he was about to do and railing against Trump administration policies. He called himself a friendly federal assassin. Post journalist Maura Judkus was at the dinner. She described what happened after she heard a sharp popping sound and realized it was probably gunfire.
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Maura Judkus
So I told everyone else at our table, I said, hit the ground. Get under the table. No shots fired in there. Shots fired. The room got very, very quiet. People were whispering from under their tables. We could hear commotion as secret surprises Service and other federal agents rushed the room, presumably evacuating some of the cabinet members and also trying to secure the space. They started throwing chairs around. A woman underneath my table got hit in the back with a chair really badly as someone shoved it.
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Hannah Jewell
Trump spoke at a press conference later that night and took the opportunity to promote his White House ballroom project.
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Donald Trump
I didn't want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House. It's actually a larger room and it's a much more secure, it's got, it's drone proof, it's bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That's why Secret Service, that's why the military are demanding it.
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Hannah Jewell
According to officials familiar with the plan, the Trump administration provided a lower level of security for the dinner than it has for other gatherings of high ranking officials. Britain's King Charles III is scheduled to begin a rare state visit to the US today. That's our second story. The long planned royal visit had been intended to showcase Anglo American relations 250 years after the declaration of independence. But the timing has turned out to be a little awkward. That's because the visit comes in the middle of one of the sharpest fights between Washington and London in generations. President Trump is furious at the British government for its reluctance to support his ongoing war in Iran. British officials hope their monarch can smooth out the tensions. Christian Turner is the UK's ambassador to the US. He sounded optimistic about the visit in an interview with the Post last week.
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Christian Turner
This visit really for us allows us to tell the story of two peoples, of their relationship that goes back, of course, in this year of all years, the 250, the birthday celebration. The visit will for us really be about that arc of history looking back, but also how we renew and keep a vibrant relationship for the future.
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Hannah Jewell
Some British leaders, though, are anxious about what the president might say while standing next to the king. Number three President Trump scrapped a US delegation's trip to Pakistan for peace negotiations with Iran. On Friday, the White House announced that a US delegation would travel to Islamabad to talk in person with Iranian officials. The group would include special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son in law Jared Kushner. But Trump abruptly canceled the trip at the last minute. He expressed frustration with a lack of progress in the talks. A first round of U s Iran negotiations this month failed to secure a deal. The two sides have remained in contact, but it's unclear whether they have made progress bridging gaps on key issues. That includes the fate of Iran's nuclear program and the still closed straight before moves. Number four Trump officials are hiring deportation judges with less training and experience. The Trump administration began firing immigration judges on the first day of the president's second term. More than 100 were fired, and some believe it was simply because they had been hired by former President Joe Biden. But now a massive backlog in immigration cases is slowing down Trump's goal of deporting a million immigrants each year. So the administration has been on a hiring spree. More than 140 new judges have been hired. Two thirds of them have no stated experience in immigration law. Among them are a divorce lawyer who has vowed to fight exclusively for the rights of men, a defense attorney for January 6th rioters, and a judge who once denied a gay man humanitarian protection because he didn't look overtly gay. Some judges who were fired fear that Trump is stacking the courts with loyalists under pressure to carry out a single deporting immigrants. Six Sprawling data center campuses are planned in a small town of of 7,000 people. That's our fifth story. In Archbold, Pennsylvania, residents are fighting back against data center projects that are said to take up about 14% of the town's land. That's roughly the size of 51 Walmart Supercenters. For years, developer plans to make Archbold a hub for data storage went mostly unnoticed. Their supporters claim the centers are necessary for economic development. But when news about zoning changes to make way for the centers spread, people began organizing on social media. A Facebook group opposing the centers now has nearly 10,000 members, more than the local population. And so far, four council members who supported zoning amendments to make way for the centers have resigned. This local showdown could have national implications. It's a test of whether local activists can can stop massive projects of this kind. 6 Some Western states are hoping that cloud seeding drones can help solve their water problems Drought is hitting farmers and cities in the Mountain west hard, so Utah and Idaho are paying millions of dollars a year to the startup Rainmaker to try and help alleviate it. Rainmaker says it has proved its cloud seeding drones have produced 142 million gallons of water in the form of snow. Here's how it the drones release silver iodide, a salt that causes liquid in the clouds to turn into ice and then fall to the ground as snow. But there are doubts about how much the method can actually help, given the scale of the problem. One Utah meteorologist told the Post that even in a good year, cloud seeding can likely only boost precipitation by 15%. And at number seven, a technique known as habit stacking can help you reach your goals. Habit stacking has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. It's a method of linking a new habit you're trying to form to an existing habit, like adding meditating or drinking water to your routine just after you get out of the shower each morning. Proponents say it works because it builds in reminders to perform a new task. It also encourages consistency and focuses on small, achievable changes. You are a lot more likely to achieve a tangible goal of doing 20 push ups or a quick jog around the block than a vague big goal like simply getting in shape. If you want to try habit stacking, the key is to choose a habit that is realistic and then figure out which existing habit to tie it to. For more tips on how to make it happen, follow the link at the end of today's newsletter find that where it always is in our show. Notes Foreign. You're all caught up. I have a suggestion for a new habit which is very easy and worthwhile to achieve. Become a subscriber to the Washington Post right now. That will only cost you $40 for the first year for a core subscription, then $140 after that. You can cancel anytime. Sign up@washingtonpost.com subscribe I'm Hannah Jewell. I'll meet you back here tomorrow.
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