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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN

(CNN) — Prosecutors filed new evidence Thursday including video showing the moments before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that President Donald Trump and administration officials attended at the Washington Hilton hotel in DC on Saturday night.

The video shows the alleged attacker, Cole Tomas Allen, walk through a doorway in the hall leading to the security check point.

One second later, an officer and his dog approach the door, which leads to a separate hallways with elevators.

The officer stands at the doorway looking down the hallway with elevators for approximately 12 seconds, while his dog moves in and out of the doorway. During this period the camera angle does not show Allen.

The officer and his dog eventually turn to walk away, and one second later the suspect can be seen rushing back out of the doorway with a shotgun, running toward the security checkpoint. Prosecutors say the video shows Allen and a Secret Service officer exchange fire. It is not immediately clear in the video when Allen allegedly shot his gun.

DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whose office is prosecuting the case, said the video shows Allen shoot that same officer.

“There is no evidence the shooting was the result of friendly fire,” Pirro said in posting the video online.

Prior to the shooting, the video shows Allen wandering through the halls and areas of the hotel Saturday night, which Pirro says shows that Allen was casing the hotel.

Despite Allen’s attorneys telling a federal judge Thursday they would not fight a motion to keep Allen behind bars as the case continues, prosecutors still wanted to present evidence as to why they consider Allen a threat.

The judge said it would be a waste of time since Allen was not fighting the detention motion.

Despite this, Pirro’s prosecutors filed the video along with other images allegedly of Allen, his hotel room, a used shotgun casing, and the other weapons and gear Allen allegedly had, including a pistol, knives and tape.

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(Reuters) — Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be moved to house arrest, state media reported on Thursday, more than five years after the military ousted the civilian government she led and jailed the Nobel laureate.

Suu Kyi, 80, has been detained by the junta since and her whereabouts have been unclear amid a deadly civil war that was triggered by the February 2021 coup that has engulfed much of the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.

State-run MRTV reported that “the remaining portion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentence has been commuted to be served at a designated residence,” using an honorific for the veteran politician.

State media also broadcast a photograph of Suu Kyi, seated on a wooden bench and flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of her in years.

At the United Nations in New York, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric welcomed the news.

“We’ve just seen the reports,” he said. “I can tell you that we appreciate the commutation of Aung San Suu Kyi to a so-called house arrest in a designated residence. It is a meaningful step towards conditions conducive to credible political process.”

Dujarric added that the only viable political solution in Myanmar “must be based on immediate cessation of violence and a genuine commitment to inclusive dialogue.”

However, in a statement, her son Kim Aris said Thursday’s announcement by Myanmar authorities did little to dispel fears about her condition or even confirm that she was still alive.

“I still do not know where my mother is. I do not know how she is. I remain deeply concerned about whether she is still alive,” he said. “If she is alive, I ask for proof of life.”

In December, Aris told Reuters he has not heard from his mother in years, only receiving sporadic, secondhand details about her heart, bone and gum problems since her detention.

“It is good to hear that the house arrest has been confirmed but we haven’t received any direct notification,” a member of her legal team told Reuters. “We only found out about it from the news announcement.”

Thirty-three-year sentence

After a marathon run of trials, Suu Kyi was sentenced to 33 years after convictions on charges ranging from corruption and inciting election fraud to violating state secrecy rules, which her allies maintain were politically motivated and aimed at sidelining her.

That sentence was later commuted to 27 years, and then by a sixth in a Myanmar New Year amnesty on April 17 that freed her ally and co-defendant Win Myint, the former president.

Earlier on Thursday, her sentence was reduced by a further one-sixth as part of a wider amnesty of all prisoners in Myanmar’s jails.

Suu Kyi, the daughter of the former Burma’s independence hero General Aung San, was held under house arrest for a total of 15 years under a previous junta at her family residence on Yangon’s Inya Lake, where she famously gave impassioned speeches to crowds of supporters over the metal gates of the property.

Myanmar’s junta chief turned president Min Aung Hlaing, who overthrew Suu Kyi in the coup, has faced persistent international pressure to release political detainees since a recent election, including from the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN, which he is seeking to reengage with after being barred from its summits.

Min Aung Hlaing last week told Thailand’s foreign minister th

By Simone McCarthy, Martha Zhou, CNN

Beijing (CNN) — The world’s largest electric vehicle maker is locked out of its biggest potential overseas market.

But BYD – the Chinese EV behemoth – says barriers restricting it and other Chinese carmakers from American consumers won’t stop it from maintaining that top spot in an industry transforming how people drive.

“Without the US market, BYD still will be the leading position,” Stella Li, the company’s executive vice president, told CNN during an interview on the sidelines of the Beijing auto show earlier this week.

Washington has effectively barred Chinese carmakers from importing to the US market, citing concerns around national security and the need to protect American carmakers from rivals that have benefited from the Chinese government’s long-term support for its EV sector.

Those US restrictions are expected to be in the spotlight next month when Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosts President Donald Trump in Beijing.

BYD’s Li said she hopes the highly anticipated summit could lead to change. “You start a dialogue, then you see the business opportunity, then you should open up, because this is win-win,” she said.

Even still, Li added that the vehicle maker has “no future plan” as yet for its cars to enter the US market.

For now, the company is expanding seemingly everywhere else. It’s understood to have set its sights on selling at least 1.5 million vehicles overseas this year, about half a million more than last year.

That scale-up is imperative for the automaker, which – despite taking the superlative No.1-EV-maker title from Tesla last year – is seeing its profits shrink amid a knock-down, drag-out fight with rivals for market share within China.

How the company drives forward its overseas growth could have outsize international impact. Automakers around the globe and their employees fear being overwhelmed by BYD’s prolific industrial capacity and competitive pricing. Consumer access to more affordable EVs could help accelerate the worldwide transition from fossil fuels – and offer welcome alternatives amid a global oil shock due to the Iran war.

Already, Li sees a boon for BYD in the current oil crisis that’s driven up prices at the gas pump.

“It’s like a wake-up call for the people who never touch EV,” she said, adding BYD has already seen a surge of demand in markets such as Australia and Indonesia.

Keeping the crown

That interest comes at a critical time for BYD.

A battery manufacturer turned carmaker in the early 2000s, the company established an early lead over domestic rivals by cracking the code on making EV batteries cheaply.

BYD has consolidated its advantage by automating production and controlling its supply chain, including software and hardware, with meticulous detail.

The publicly traded company boasts a commanding lead of nearly 20% of China’s EV and hybrid market, industry data shows. And its global rise has launched it to a level of world renown never before achieved by a Chinese automaker.

But rougher times are here.

In 2025, the company recorded its first annual profit drop in four years down by 19%, and its net profit more than halved year on year in the first quarter of 2026.

Demand for EVs in China is slowing after the government trimmed consumer subsidies and perks, and there’s no end in sight to a brutal price war as a crowded field of EV rivals jostle to outperform and undercut one another.

“There’s still no clear-cut winner. BYD, right? They were flying up until 2024 – and then 2025, so far this year, they’ve had a lot of pressure,” said industry analyst Lei Xing, pointing to the intense one-upmanship in the market when it comes to rolling out products and features.

BYD stumbled from its spot as China’s largest automaker overall at