U.S. President Trump was shot at during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The attacker was quickly subdued by Secret Service personnel, and one agent was lightly injured. Afterwards, Trump held a press conference saying the dinner would be rescheduled.
The U.S. Navy's first carrier-based drone to enter combat service, the MQ-25A Stingray, successfully completed its first flight on April 25. The aircraft is designed to perform unmanned aerial refueling for carrier-based aircraft to enhance operational range and endurance.
Justin Yifu Lin, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, said in Hefei that China is only 135 dollars short of the high-income country threshold and could cross it by next year at the latest.
In Mingliu Village, Bobai County, Yulin, Guangxi, government personnel, police and construction workers tried to go up the mountain to forcibly install wind turbines, but local villagers collectively blocked the only road leading there and successfully stopped them.
State Grid's Yantai–Weihai UHV line project entered Jiaoxi Town, Jiaozhou City, Shandong for construction without paying any compensation, and a female villager climbed a high-voltage tower in protest.
Villagers of Houyang Village in Hui'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian formed a human wall, holding land certificates, and successfully blocked the forced land acquisition team from entering the village.
A large-scale non-violent non-cooperation movement took place across 34 counties and districts in Heilongjiang province, where merchants collectively shut down their businesses for over two months to protest unbearable exorbitant fines.
According to statistics from the civil society project "Zuotian" (Yesterday), over the 67 days from April 25 to June 30, 2026, merchants in 34 counties (cities, districts) of Heilongjiang successively closed their shops en masse, with the cumulative number of participating merchants too numerous to count, the trigger being merchants' fear of surprise inspections and hefty fines.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that 34-year-old Chinese national Xu Zewei has been extradited from Italy to the United States, where he faces nine charges including wire fraud, and is accused of carrying out cyberattacks under the direction of the Shanghai State Security Bureau.
On April 25, 2026, a 13-year-old boy in Dingbian County, Shaanxi was kicked by public officials. When he called the police, an accompanying police officer slapped him, causing mild traumatic brain injury. The two people involved were subsequently given 10 days of administrative detention and fined.