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Fetterman says America must turn down the temperature after White House Correspondents Dinner shooting
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said America needs to cool heated political rhetoric after Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
“We really have to just… turn that temperature down,” he told “Hannity” Monday. “The president was shot in the head in my own state just back in Butler too. People seem to, they forgot that, too.”
“We really got lucky because it could have been far more even catastrophic, and I’m so grateful no one was hurt.”
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The suspected shooter at the WHCA Dinner, Cole Allen, a computer scientist from Torrance, California, allegedly wrote in a manifesto note that his targets were Trump administration officials with the exception of FBI Director Kash Patel. According to Federal Election Commission records, Allen donated $25 to Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle. He faces three counts, including attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, transporting a firearm across state lines, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
Fetterman’s comments about political rhetoric come as comedian Jimmy Kimmel faces backlash after he jokingly called first lady Melania Trump an “expectant widow” days before the WHCA Dinner shooting.
“Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said Thursday.
Melania Trump condemned his poorly timed joke in a statement on X Monday morning.
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“His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she said.
President Donald Trump also fired back, saying ABC should “immediately” fire Kimmel over the “despicable call to violence.”
Fetterman criticized heated political rhetoric that the White House says incites violent attacks like Saturday’s shooting.
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“I’ve always refused to use that kind of language, and I strongly and in the strongest terms, I reject the extreme rhetoric for anyone at this point,” the Pennsylvania Democrat said.
Since the shooting, Trump has reignited calls to build a ballroom at the White House to create a space for safe and secure official events.
Fetterman said the event, held at the Washington Hilton, was improperly secure, especially since the line of presidential succession was in attendance.
He told “Hannity” he is in full support of building a White House ballroom and called on his Democratic colleagues to “drop the TDS” and help the building.
“We need to have a secure facility for events just like this,” Fetterman said. “We can’t ever allow to be exposed in that way to an attack. That hotel was never designed to do that in a safe way.”
“Our country deserves that. And that’s gonna create a venue for more secure and inclusive and really more accessible for people,” he added.
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Anti-Israel agitators clash with NYPD officers near synagogue
Anti-Israel agitators clashed with law enforcement outside a Manhattan synagogue on Tuesday night as pro-Israel demonstrators waved Israeli and American flags nearby.
Footage from the protest shows New York City police officers shoving the anti-Israel group back to create a street-wide separation between the two groups. The group waving Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs numbered roughly 100 and could be heard repeatedly shouting, “Israel should not exist.”
The anti-Israel group, gathered less than a block from the Park East Synagogue, chanted, “Palestine will never die,” and, “Stop the sale of stolen land.”
The organizer of the protest was the anti-Israel group Pal-Awda NY/NJ, which previously organized a similar demonstration outside the same synagogue in November, according to the New York Post.
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It was in response to that protest that the New York City Council passed legislation allowing the NYPD to place barriers around synagogues to protect congregants from protesters. Police at Tuesday night’s clash were seen enforcing that barrier.
The council passed the legislation with a veto-proof 44-5 majority, but NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani refused to sign the legislation, instead dragging it out until an April 25 deadline when it automatically became law, the Post reported.
The Anti-Defamation League released an annual report on Wednesday morning that found 2025 “marked one of the most violent periods for American Jews.”
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Assaults against Jews rose to 203 from 196 compared to the year before, and assaults with deadly weapons rose from 23 to 32.
The group did find that non-violent antisemitic incidents, including incidents of harassment and vandalism, were down 39% and 21% since 2024 respectively.
“Our 2025 Audit, which shows it was one of the most violent years for American Jews on record is a reminder of how dramatically the threat landscape has shifted. Numbers that would have shocked us five years ago are now our floor,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
The ADL audit includes both criminal and non-criminal acts of harassment, vandalism and assault against individuals and groups as reported to ADL by victims, law enforcement, the media and partner organizations, and evaluated by ADL’s experts, the group says.
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Lakers player suffers gruesome pinkie injury in Game 1 loss to Thunder
Los Angeles Lakers forward Jarred Vanderbilt suffered a gruesome finger injury during the team’s Game 1 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night.
Vanderbilt went up to block Thunder star Chet Holmgren’s dunk, but missed. Instead, his pinkie got caught on the backboard as he came down. Vanderbilt was in a ton of pain, and even the Thunder bench winced at Vanderbilt’s hand.
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“I mean, it just — it looked pretty gruesome in my opinion,” Thunder guard Jared McCain said after Oklahoma City finished off the 108-90 victory. “I don’t even know, to be honest, what I was looking at. It looked pretty bad, though. So prayers for him. Sending him love.”
Vanderbilt, who averaged 4.4 points per game during the regular season, only played six minutes in Game 1. He had two points and a rebound.
Lakers coach JJ Redick spoke about Vanderbilt’s mishap after the game, calling it a “freak injury.”
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“I went to go check on him because it just looked bad,” Redick said. “He was audibly screaming. Knew he had done something. We’re obviously disappointed. But, that happened, and it’s just a freak injury.”
Los Angeles has been hit with the injury bug over the last month. The team lost Austin Reaves and Luka Doncic for the last few games of the regular season. Reaves returned to the floor for Game 5 against the Houston Rockets.
Against the Thunder, he only scored eight points in 36 minutes.
Doncic is still nursing a hamstring injury, which cost him the final five regular-season games and now Game 1 against Oklahoma City.
Game 2 is set for Thursday night.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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WWE legend Ric Flair blasts Lakers’ Luka Doncic, calls on team to trade him
Pro wrestling legend Ric Flair didn’t mince words when it came to Luka Doncic’s absence from the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.
The Lakers fell to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game of their second-round series, 108-90. Doncic missed the first round of the playoffs with a hamstring injury. Los Angeles has seen Austin Reaves return to the lineup in the last series. He played 36 minutes against the Thunder, but only scored eight points.
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Flair wrote on X that Doncic needed to get back in the game and that he hoped the Lakers decide to trade him.
“Luka, Please Get In The Game! Take A Shot Of Cortisone And Deal With The Pain! They Are Paying You 50 Million A Year, And You’re Not There! WTF! I Hope @JeanieBuss Trades You Next Year. Nobody Wants A Lame Duck On Their Team!” Flair wrote in his rant.
Flair made clear in an interview with Fox News Digital in 2023 that he keeps an eye on all sports – not just what’s going on in pro wrestling.
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Particularly, he found players resting due to “load management” loathsome.
“These basketball players that whine and b—h, it’s taken a lot of the sport away from me,” he said at the time.
Flair contrasted wrestling through his own injuries to NBA players sitting out through injuries he felt they should be able to play through.
“They go to work hurt,” Flair said about pro wrestlers at the time. “That’s what p—-s me off today about these basketball players that stub their toe. No s—. How do you think I feel about that knowing I wrestled six months after I broke my back in a f—ing airplane crash? ‘I got a torn thumbnail. Whoa, whoa, whoa.’”
In any event, Doncic’s hamstring injury cost him the last five games of the regular season and each of the Lakers’ playoff games.
Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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