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Student gun control activist David Hogg attended Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and campaigned against the NRA as he mingled with members of Congress. The Daily Mail reports that Hogg came to the dinner as a guest of the The Daily Beast. He attended with Zion Kelly, an 18-year-old whose twin brother was shot dead last year. Hogg used part of his time at the dinner pushing the newly created “No Rifle Association initiative” (#NoRA), of which he is a part. He was able to get six members of Congress to sign a #NoRA pledge that they will take no funding from the NRA: Great meeting up with @zionkelly18 again in DC working the #WHCD got 6 congressman to sign the @noNRAmoney pledge today. Change is coming pic.twitter.com/JBNxfg575l — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) April 29, 2018 On April 20, Breitbart News reported the launch of #NoRA, noting that it included student activists like Hogg and Cameron Kasky, together with celebrities like Alec Baldwin, Ashley Ju...

WASHINGTON (AP) — If President Donald Trump isn’t comfortable being the target of jokes, comedian Michelle Wolf gave him and others plenty of reasons to squirm Saturday night. “It’s 2018 and I’m a woman, so you cannot shut me up,” Wolf cracked, “unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $130,000.” No, Trump’s personal attorney wasn’t there. And, for the second year, Trump himself skipped the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association, preferring to criticize journalists and others during a campaign-style rally near Detroit. Wolf, the after-dinner entertainment for the White House press corps and their guests, was surprisingly racy for the venue and seemed more at home on HBO than C-SPAN. After one crass joke drew groans in the Washington Hilton ballroom, she laughed and said, “Yeah, shoulda done more research before you got me to do this.” As he did last year, Trump flew to a Republican-friendly district to rally supporters on the same night as the dinner. In Washingt...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a lower court on Friday to allow a Texas voter ID law to remain in place in a case that could be a major breakthrough for conservative anti-voter fraud efforts. Judge Edith Jones’s 17-page opinion for the court reverses a district court injunction that blocked the law, known as SB 5, from gong into effect. The law at issue, SB 5, was written last year specifically to address Voting Rights Act concerns with its 2011 predecessor, SB 14. It will now go into effect as planned. “That Plaintiffs’ factual critique boils down to speculation demonstrates the prematurity of the court’s decision to invalidate SB 5 in 2017, well before the law took effect in 2018,” the Reagan-appointed Jones writes. “Nothing we conclude today disposes of any potential challenges to SB 5 in the future.” The case is also notable in that, with the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as attorney general, the Departme...

On Saturday, comedian Michelle Wolf headlined the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. She used her time at the microphone to roast President Donald Trump and his administration and taking the brunt of the jokes was press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. After a series of jabs at various administration officials, Wolf turned her attention to Sanders and joked that she’s “starstruck” because she loved the press secretary as Aunt Lydia in the show, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” She turned to the press secretary’s day job as leader of the White House press briefings. “Every time Sarah steps up to the podium I get excited because I’m not really sure what we’re gonna get,” she said. “You know, a press briefing, a bunch of lies, or divided into softball teams.” Wolf lowered her voice and in a nod to Sanders’ almost daily altercations with CNN’s Jim Acosta, said, “It’s shirts and skins and this time don’t be such a little b***h, Jim Acosta.” Watch the video below: The comedian added that San...

Facebook apologized Saturday evening to the administrators of an event page for a protest in San Diego against the migrant caravan, and restored the page — hours after the protest was scheduled to have begun. San Diegans for Secure Borders (SDSB) founder Jeff Schwilk told Breitbart News Tonight on the Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125 on Friday evening that Facebook had removed the Saturday morning event, “STOP the Caravan of 1500 Illegal Aliens from Mexico,” and had put him in “Facebook jail” for 30 days, locking him out of his account. “Our event page had been up for about four weeks and had about 950 people signed up to either attend or ‘interested’ in attending,” Schwilk told Senior Editor at Large Rebecca Mansour. “There was nothing on it that ‘attacked’ illegal aliens, just the facts about their ongoing scam to claim fake asylum to waltz right into the U.S. Now it is gone,” he said. ” Zapped for hosting a 100% peaceful and lawful event to oppose the unlawful invasion of our countr...

The governments of Japan and China, typically on the opposite sides of most regional political issues, both praised Friday’s summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un. China is North Korea’s largest trading partner and closest ally. Japan, a U.S. ally, is one of North Korea’s most reliable targets of vitriol, abductions of civilians, and the occasional missile test, making Tokyo one of the loudest voices calling for denuclearization of the Kim regime. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued an optimistic statement about the in-person meeting between the leaders of both Koreas. “I welcome (the outcome) as the earnest discussion on denuclearization and other issues was a move toward the comprehensive resolution of various challenges surrounding North Korea,” he told reporters, according to Japan’s Kyodo News Agency. He reportedly added that Japan would continue to cooperate with the United States and South Korea as the situation develops...

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) praised New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman for not condoning comedian Michelle Wolf’s jokes aimed at his daughter, press secretary Sarah Sanders. Huckabee took to Twitter on Sunday morning to defend his daughter and tweeted his “sincere and heartfelt” gratitude to Haberman. He thanked the White House correspondent for having the “guts to publicly denounce the vicious, vile attack” on his daughter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Sincere and heartfelt THANKS to @maggieNYT for having guts to publicly denounce the vicious vile attack on @PressSec at WHCD. @PressSec handled it professionally but I pray her kids never see that. I pray more they never bully another person like that. https://t.co/UeJEaXTt8T — Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) April 29, 2018 Huckabee praised Sanders for handling it professionally but added, “I pray her kids never see that. I pray more they never bully another person like that.” ...