Who Are The Wide Awakes? What We Know About Group Tied to Cole Allen

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Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect arrested in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner, has been linked to a political group called The Wide Awakes, the New York Post first reported and is believed to have attended a No Kings protest in California, where he attended college and worked as a teacher. Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, faces charges of two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of assault on an officer using a dangerous weapon after breaching security at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night and shooting a law enforcement agent who was not seriously injured...