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Gen Z isn't one generation: Research suggests it's two, split by the pandemic, and the younger half won't sit still. After lurching right, the youngest voters are souring on the administration, per a recent Yale poll.

Why it matters: The generation raised on lightning-fast cultural and tech shifts has become a sought-after — and perhaps, predictable — swing group. Politicians and institutions treating them as a monolith risk misreading the country's young people.

President Trump was hastily evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night after a suspected gunman tried to breach security and was shot by Secret Service, federal law enforcement officials tell Axios.

Driving the news: A suspect fired at Secret Service personnel at the event at the Washington Hilton hotel and is now in custody, a law enforcement source tells Axios.

Members of Congress and other political figures who were present at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night were left deeply unsettled by a shooting that took place outside the event.

The big picture: "It's a horrible, horrible moment for our country to see somebody want to attack or disrupt the event," Rep. Brian Jack (R-Ga.) told Axios while exiting the dinner, which was postponed due to the incident.

Shots rang out at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night, sending Secret Service agents to evacuate President Trump from the Washington Hilton ballroom — and adding to a list of close calls no modern president has faced.

The big picture: Saturday's threat is the latest in a documented pattern dating back to Trump's first presidential campaign. The record spans lone gunmen at his rallies, Iranian state-backed murder-for-hire plots and repeated security breaches.

President Trump condemned the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night, but he said that demonstrates the need to renovate security facilities underneath his planned White House ballroom.

The big picture: Trump was rushed from the dinner after a suspect armed with a shotgun attempted to breach security and was taken into custody after firing several shots.

President Trump has called for the White House Correspondents' Dinner to be rescheduled for a date within the next month after a security incident during Saturday's dinner, WHCA chair Weijia Jiang said.

The big picture: Trump intended to return to the dinner after being evacuated, two sources told Axios, but Jiang said law enforcement had insisted everyone leave the premises.

President Trump canceled the trip by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad due to the Iranian position in peace negotiations, he told Axios.

Why it matters: The envoys had been expected to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in a trip designed to break a diplomatic stalemate and build momentum for a deal.

The Trump administration moved faster than anyone expected to build a system to repay businesses billions of dollars in tariffs. Now, the president is warning companies not to use it.

Why it matters: Businesses face an especially tricky quandary: On the one hand, consumers and some lawmakers are calling on them to pass down refunds to their customers. On the other, there's now political pressure not to seek refunds at all.

President Trump is governing like a man who will never face voters again, mortgaging his party's future on promises he won't be around to keep.

Why it matters: Trump's approval has plunged to a second-term low. His signature bets — tariffs, the war in Iran, redistricting — are curdling into long-term liabilities the GOP could carry long past November.

America is becoming more multiracial, but its data systems are still thinking in black and white.

Why it matters: Outdated measurement systems are shaping how elections are analyzed, health risks are tracked and civil rights laws are enforced.