>> Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
There were a few tense moments at the annual White House Correspondence dinner this evening.
When gunshots were heard outside the ballroom were present in Trump and other administration officials were sitting with journalists and Pierre's tamer Keith was there. >> We were inside the ballroom and the basement of the Washington Hilton, the dinner, the White House Correspondence Association dinner was just beginning with the president and the vice president up on stage.
Then we heard a burst of what sounded like gunfire, it did not sound like it was in the room. Then security personnel including many heavily armed security personnel rushed in, tactical team getting the president out, the vice president and many members of the cabinet as well as the speaker of the House who was also in the line of presidential succession.
>> President Trump is speaking from the White House right now.
“He said one secret service agent was shot in the attack but he was wearing a vest and was not”
seriously injured so far there are no other reported injuries. President Trump's Saturday once again canceled plans to send a ghost shaders to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran that news quickly reached Israel and Pierre's Eleanor Beardsley has more from Tel Aviv. >> The announcement came as his rallies demonstrated against Benjamin Netanyahu in Central Tel Aviv. One of the protesters 55-year-old Danny Cohen says it's a real dilemma.
Because on the one end, it's clear that Iran and Israel are willing their powers to and declaring the intention to eliminate Israel. >> He says the lesson of the October 7 Hamas attack was not to let your enemies get too strong. >> But for the same time, personally, I don't trust the government that there are generally doing it for the best interests of the country rather than their own personal political needs.
>> Cohen says he doesn't know what will happen but he trusts the U.S. government more than his own
“Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News Tel Aviv. >> Israel, meanwhile, says it will strike Lebanon”
with force targeting Hezbollah despite the U.S. brokered ceasefire. Time is running out for registering to vote in this year's primary elections in some states, and Pierre's Hanse low-wong reports, those states are preparing to hold their primary next month. >> Today is a last chance for eligible voters in Louisiana to register online in time to cast balance in the states May 16th primary and Monday is Nebraska's deadline for registering
online or by mail, though in-person voter registration doesn't end until May 1st. In Oregon, you can still register online by mail or in-person through Tuesday, and there's still about a week left in Alabama and Pennsylvania to sign up to vote in those primaries. Elzbo voters in Montana also have until May 4th to register by mail, and they can sign up in person through June 2nd. If you're planning to use the U.S. Postal Service to mail your application,
U.S. P.S. recommends sending it at least a week before your state's deadline,
“and to make sure it gets a postmark date, U.S. P.S. says stop by a post office and ask for a free”
manual postmark at the counter on Zila Wong and Pierre News. >> And your listening to NPR News. 13 people were killed Saturday when an explosive device detonated on a bus in southwestern Columbia, at least 38 others were injured including five children. The commander of Columbia's armed forces called the Explosion a terrorist act. The incident occurred while the bus was traveling on the Pan-American Highway, the region is facing increasing violence linked to drug
trafficking. The politically connected founder of the now-defunct Georgia-based first lady, a liberty building in Lone was arranged this week in Atlanta, Brand Frost, the fourth,
allegedly orchestrated a $140 million Ponzi scheme. Melissa Fato, from member station WAB reports.
>> Prosecutors say Frost defrauded hundreds of investors by allegedly using their money to pay other clients, creating the illusion of profits. Frost is also accused of pocketing more than $5 million, including over 500,000 for political contributions to the Republican party to which the family has closed ties. U.S. attorney theater, Hertzberg says Frost could face up to 20 years in prison for one count of wire fraud. >> I expect that we are going to be recommending
a sentence closer to the high end of that range than to the lower end of that range. This would be a sentence that has two digits. >> Hertzberg says the investigation is ongoing, and did it rule out future charges against others. For NPR News, I'm Melissa Fato in Atlanta. >> No, the court has a five-stroke lead going into Sunday's final round of the LPGA Championship in Houston this weekend. She led during Saturday's round by as much as eight strokes before missing
three four-foot puts over the last 11 holes. She finished the day with a 70, inside the tournament record for 54 holes. I'm Dale Willman and PR News. >> This week on the NPR politics podcast, for decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked and even infiltrated hate groups. But the Justice Department now alleges the way they funded that work amounted to bank fraud. Is it an honest pursuit of justice or just the latest example of the Trump DOJ
targeting the president's political opponents? Listen this week to the NPR politics podcast.
