Only in America: Amid the roast, Trump toasts free speech

Donald Trump at White House correspondent's dinner (Image/AP)TOI correspondent from Washington: It was as though a bull had been invited to hand out prizes at a china convention. The White House Correspondents' Association's rescheduled annual dinner on Friday night produced one of those deliciously improbable scenes that remind the world why American democracy is equal parts constitutional republic and absurdist theatre. There sat President Donald Trump, who has spent years suing, skewering, ridiculing and generally treating journalists the way a cobra views a mongoose, applauding Wall Street Journal reporters as they collected an award for investigating... Donald Trump.The Journal team received the WHCA's Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability for reporting on Trump's rela