By Garsha Vazirian

Political violence claims spotlight at White House Correspondents’ dinner

Familiar venue of past U.S. presidential shootings becomes a scene of fresh chaos and public disillusionment

TEHRAN — The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, marketed as a carefully stage-managed tribute to the bond between power and the press, collapsed into raw panic on the night of April 25 at the Washington Hilton’s cavernous International Ballroom.