WASHINGTON — In a 21-minute White House Correspondents’ Association dinner routine on Saturday night — about equal parts of serious and shtick — President Joe Biden made jokes about his age, called for the release of detained journalists and paid tribute to pioneering journalism in Chicago that led to the modern civil rights era.
Takeaways from the annual dinner, a glitzy night with the president, Vice President Kamala Harris and some 2,600 filling the high-demand seats in the Washington Hilton ballroom:
