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President Trump and a number of members of his administration were evacuated from the

White House correspondent and dinner tonight after a man began firing a weapon outside the

Washington-Hilton ballroom where the event was being held.

Afterward, President Trump praised the Secret Service agents who quickly tackled the suspects.

The fact that they just unified, I saw a room that was just totally unified.

It was in one way, a very beautiful thing to see a man charge a security checkpoint

armed with multiple weapons and he was taken down by some very brave members of Secret

Service and they acted very quickly.

One Secret Service agent was shot at close range, but he was wearing a vest.

Trump said he spoke with him later and he's fine.

There have been no other reported injuries from the shooting.

The annual dinner was canceled after the incident, but Trump says he wants to have it

rescheduled soon.

And Pierce Francoordonia's listened to Trump as he spoke tonight.

I mean, I was taken by his, you know, kind of the conciliatory nature.

You know, he was talking about how, you know, he really spoke well of the press.

He was very thankful.

I was touched that he called on Wija, who is the president of the White House Correspondents

Association.

She was up there with the president at that moment in these video replays.

You can see her kind of rushing over to kind of try to help.

So I was, I was very touched that the president kind of, you know, pointed her out and, you

know, spoke, spoke, and he also spoke well of, of the press.

And you know, I'm, you know, I will be, I'm encouraged by his thoughts that he does want

to do it again.

Even if it is, you know, an a hard event to do.

Since NPR's Francoordonia's with their report, he was at the correspondent's dinner when

the firing began, authorities have not identified the shooter yet, but they say they are confident

that he was acting alone.

President Trump says he's canceled the U.S. delegation's trip to Islamabad for cease

fire talks with Iran.

And Pierce deeper, a deeper shiverum has more on that story.

Trump says there was too much time wasted on traveling for in-person talks on the way

back to Washington.

Trump told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida that Iranians could continue negotiations over

the phone.

Have people traveling for 16, 17 hours?

We're not doing it that way.

We'll do it when they want they can call me.

He also claimed that there's infighting among Iranian leadership and confusion over who's

in charge.

Trump extended the cease fire with Iran earlier this week, though it's not clear when

it will lift.

The White House has just said that's up to the president.

Trump says that after he canceled the travel to Pakistan, Iran came back with a better

deal.

He said Iran offered a lot, but not enough.

Deepa Shiverum and PR News.

And you're listening to NPR News.

The King of Pop is back on top.

The Michael Jackson biopic, Michael appears set it for a record-breaking opening.

And Pierce Bob Mandelo has our details.

A week ago, industry observers were saying Antoine Fuqua's long delayed portrait of

pop superstar Michael Jackson was likely to sell about $50 million with the tickets in

the U.S. this weekend.

Then critics weighed in, talking about a troubled production history and mostly crashing

the film as a sanitized PR pitch by the Jackson estate and audiences apparently decided they

didn't care.

With about $40 million in the till for Michael on its first day, weekend estimates have

risen to as much as $100 million in North America and another 100 million plus overseas

easily a record for a pop music biopic, Bob Mandelo, NPR News.

Palestinian Saturday buried a pregnant woman and her two children.

They were killed Friday in Israeli strikes in Gaza.

At least 13 people died in those attacks, including eight people in Con Yunus, who died when

Israeli forces targeted a police vehicle.

Israel's military says militants threatened troops which prompted those air strikes.

Officials in Mexico say the two U.S. federal agents killed there recently in a car crash

were not authorized to participate in operations in Mexico.

The two were returning from a destroying a clandestine drug lab in the northern state of

Chihuahua when the accident occurred.

Their role in the country remains unclear.

Officials said Saturday that one of the men entered the country as a visitor, while the

other had a diplomatic passport.

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