'I'm really excited to be here tonight with the only group of Americans with a lower approval rating than I have,' Biden said to the Hilton ballroom filled with members of the media.
Twitter announced that Elon Musk has bought the social media giant. News of the deal came with shock, concern and cheers.
The dinner had other serious moments, with tributes to pioneer journalists of color, aspiring student reporters as well as a dedication to the journalists detained, injured or killed during the coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. was experiencing a COVID-19 case spike from a highly contagious subvariant of omicron, with confirmed infections rising to about 44,000 per day, up from 26,000 a month ago. Still, virus deaths and hospitalizations were near, or at, pandemic lows, with the BA.2 variant proving less severe than earlier virus strains.
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