‘Let’s try this again’: rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is under way – US politics live

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The White House Correspondents' Association dinner has resumed at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC. The event, initially disrupted by gunfire in April, is being attended by Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union is hosting its own awards ceremony at another venue, honoring Bruce Springsteen, Colin Kaepernick, and civil rights lawyers Vanita Gupta, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Elizabeth Foster. The rescheduled dinner comes after a cringeworthy AI video was presented by the White House Correspondents' Association earlier this week. The dinner is being hosted by outgoing president Weija Jiang and her successor Jacqui Heinrich, a Fox News correspondent.

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