
After a two year hiatus, DC seizes on a chance to reconnect at the flashy White House Correspondents' Dinner
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In DC it is simply known as "the dinner:" The White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, taking place this Saturday for the first time since 2019, due to the world's pandemic pause.
In DC it is simply known as "the dinner:" The White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, taking place this Saturday for the first time since 2019, due to the world's pandemic pause. It is an excuse for five days of awards and parties and celebrity selfies and, for media reporters like yours truly, source meetings.
Fellow media reporter Oliver Darcy attended the Bytes and Bylines event Thursday, hosted by Irish Ambassador Daniel Mulhall, where hundreds of journalists and politicos mingled over drinks and hors d'oeuvres, and here's what he noticed: "The most common topic of conversation seemed to be how attendees hadn't seen each other in years."

The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval Office showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an overwhelming win underscoring Trump’s “America First” leadership, dispatching top officials and allies on the airwaves to amplify Trump’s handling of the situation even as European leaders are putting on a key show of force of unity for Ukraine and its leader.