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Video shows moment Secret Service officer fired at correspondents’ dinner suspect

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:54:13 +0000

Surveillance footage reviewed by The Post provides the clearest picture yet of the seconds after the alleged gunman bolted through a checkpoint inside the hotel.

By:Jonathan O'Connell, Sarah Blaskey, Joyce Lee, Samuel Oakford, Alex Horton

Historically Black colleges team up to pursue top research status

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:23 +0000

Fifteen historically Black colleges and universities are working together to pursue R1 status with support from top schools such as Harvard.

By:Susan Svrluga

Texas legislators say they’re shocked camp owners want to reopen after deaths

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:37:17 +0000

Texas lawmakers do not think owners have fixed problems at Camp Mystic, but they might not be able to prevent the camp from reopening in May.

By:Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Federal officers raid 22 businesses, many Somali-linked, in Minneapolis

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:52:06 +0000

Allegations that more than a dozen Minnesota safety net programs, including child care and housing services, misused federal funds have roiled the city in recent months.

By:Sheila Regan, Annie Gowen, Jeremy Roebuck

Alleged gunman at correspondents’ dinner led Christian group in college

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:25:10 +0000

Ex-classmates who knew Cole Tomas Allen, 31, at the California Institute of Technology say they were shocked by a message in which he appeared to use biblical teachings to justify violence.

By:Danielle Paquette, Hannah Natanson

Molly Sinclair McCartney, globe-trotting traveler and Post reporter, dies at 84

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:00:18 +0000

Raised in a Texas refinery town, she blazed her own trail through journalism as a woman in the 1960s. She celebrated her 80th birthday by trekking through Utah.

By:Harrison Smith

New DHS chief’s call for quieter immigration enforcement alarms MAGA base

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Groups like the Mass Deportation Coalition see Markwayne Mullin’s push to restore confidence in DHS after fatal shootings as a potential betrayal of the president’s promise.

By:David Nakamura