Suspected Gunman Charged With Attempting to Assassinate President Trump

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

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P.M. Edition for April 27. Prosecutors have charged 31-year-old Cole Allen, the suspect in the shooting outside the White House Correspondents’ dinner, with attempting to assassinate President Trump. Plus, an update from the middle of earnings season: first-quarter profits are expected to climb higher for big U.S. companies. Journal special writer Theo Francis helps explain how they’re navigating gloomy consumers. And would you pay $50 for a movie ticket? Entertainment reporter Ben Fritz joins to discuss why a certain kind of movie fan is doing it. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	The suspect in the White House Correspondence dinner shooting is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump.
0:39.8	Plus, consumers may be gloomy, but big American companies are raking it in.
0:44.1	Wall Street seems to think that this profit boom is not about to end.
0:48.8	The energy shock this time didn't seem to push us into any kind of really bad place.
0:53.2	Wall Street is pretty optimistic.
0:54.9	And welcome to the era of the $50 movie ticket.
0:58.4	It's Monday, April 27th.
1:00.4	I'm Alex O'Soula for the Wall Street Journal.
1:02.9	This is the PM edition of What's News,
1:05.4	the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
1:16.4	Thank you. business stories that move the world today. China has banned META's acquisition of AI startup Manus on national security grounds and
1:21.5	ordered the deal to be unwound.
1:23.5	Manus has its origins in China but is based in Singapore.
1:26.9	Meta paid $2.5 billion in December to acquire Manus, hoping the company would make it more competitive in the buzzy AI agents sector.
1:34.7	Agents are AI tools that can carry out complex tasks with minimal human input.
1:39.4	Meta says that the transaction was legal and that the company looked forward to the inquiry being resolved.
1:44.3	Our tech reporter Megan Broowski says China's ban could influence deals in the future.
1:48.8	Yeah, so this is a really unprecedented situation.
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