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UPDATED, with CNN comment: The White House Correspondents’ Association is urging CNN to allow at least one print pool reporter inside the studio for the duration of tonight’s presidential debate, after the network rejected previous requests. When President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump…

As this year’s president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, NBC News senior White House Kelly O’Donnell will preside over one of the biggest evenings in D.C. — a mix of politicos, media types and celebrities airing live across C-SPAN and other networks. But the issues that a WHCA…

EXCLUSIVE and UPDATED: Brittney Griner will attend tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which draws a list of sports and entertainment celebrities, media figures and politicos. The WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist, whose arrest and detention in Russia last year led to a high…

NBC News chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander said that Joe Biden called him on his cell phone to answer questions about China, following a chaotic scene in which the president cut short a post-speech Q&A as reporters shouted over each other. In the interview with Alexander, Biden said, “I…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has tested positive for Covid and is experiencing “only mild symptoms,” the State Department announced. Blinken is the latest figure who attended last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to test positive. The State Department said that Blinken has not seen Joe…

ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl has tested positive for Covid, just days after attending the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, a source confirmed. With photographers focused on their every move, Karl sat next to Kim Kardashian at the event, as she and Pete Davidson were guests of…

UPDATED, Thursday, April 28: President Joe Biden still plans to attend this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner even after Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for Covid and health officials are warning that the most recent variant is especially contagious. It’s a sign of the eagerness…

The White House briefing room contains just 49 seats in very tight quarters, a fact that makes for quite a bit of vying for the choicest spots. On Friday, the White House Correspondents Association unveiled its new seating chart for the space, with such outlets as The Grio, The Washington Blade, local station groups…

President Donald Trump will be in Wisconsin tonight hosting a rally, but a few miles to the east, the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner is being held, starting at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PT. It’s the third year in a row Trump has skipped the festivities, which traditionally used to mark an uneasy truce in…