Just after 6 p.m. Saturday, a gunman opened fire on Secret Service agents at a checkpoint at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, just outside the White House. Up to 30 shots rang out over a few seconds. Agents returned fire, fatally wounding the suspect; a bystander was hit in the exchange. President Trump was inside the Oval Office, unharmed. Hours earlier, Trump had announced that a Memorandum of Understanding to end the U.S.-Israel war with Iran had been “largely negotiated” — including reopening the Strait of Hormuz — pending final sign-off from Tehran and several mediating countries.
🚨 WHITE HOUSE SHOOTOUT
SECRET SERVICE KILLS SUSPECT, REPORTERS FLEE INTO BRIEFING ROOM
A gunman opened fire on a Secret Service checkpoint Saturday at 6 p.m., at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just outside the White House grounds. Agents returned fire; the suspect — who never breached the perimeter — was killed. A bystander was hit in serious condition. Up to 30 shots were heard in seconds. White House reporters on the North Lawn were rushed into the James Brady Press Briefing Room. President Trump, inside the Oval Office negotiating the Iran deal, was unharmed. This is the second major security incident in a month: a gunman had also stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, prompting Trump’s emergency evacuation.
🤝 IRAN — “MOU” ANNOUNCED
DEAL WOULD REOPEN HORMUZ — BUT URANIUM ISSUE PUNTED
Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday that a “Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE” with Iran had been “largely negotiated.” Final sign-off needed from Iran and from the mediator countries: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Bahrain. Key provision: reopening of the Strait of Hormuz (the shipping chokepoint that carried 20% of global oil before the war). What’s NOT in the deal: any mention of Iran’s nuclear program or its highly enriched uranium stockpile — Tehran has insisted on saving that for later talks. The war began with US-Israeli strikes on February 28; this is the latest of several near-deals that have collapsed.
🎯 IVANKA — IRGC PLOT
“KILL IVANKA TO BURN DOWN THE HOUSE OF TRUMP”
According to a New York Post report Friday, an Iraqi national trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — Iran’s most powerful military and ideological force — plotted to assassinate Ivanka Trump, 44, the president’s eldest daughter and senior White House advisor in his first term. The man, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, was arrested May 15 in Turkey and extradited to the US. Motive: revenge for the 2020 US drone strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad, ordered by Trump. Al-Saadi allegedly held a blueprint of Ivanka’s Florida home and is also tied to plots against US synagogues in New York, LA and Arizona.
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🌋 HAWAII — MAG 6.0
BIG ISLAND ROCKED, FELT AS FAR AS KAUAI
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Hawaii’s Big Island at 9:46 p.m. local time Friday, centered 8 miles south of Honaunau-Napoopoo on the western flank of Mauna Loa, at a depth of 14 miles. 7,000 people experienced violent shaking; tremors were felt as far as Kauai, 400+ miles away. Rockslides closed parts of Highway 11. No tsunami was generated. According to the USGS, the quake came from “bending of the oceanic plate from the weight of the Hawaiian island chain” — not from volcanic activity. No casualties reported, but light to moderate property damage on the Kona coast.
⚗️ CALIFORNIA — TANK MAY BLOW
NEWSOM DECLARES EMERGENCY — 40,000 EVACUATED IN ORANGE COUNTY
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Orange County, south of Los Angeles, Saturday as a 34,000-gallon tank of methyl methacrylate (a flammable liquid used to make Plexiglas and aerospace resins) at a GKN Aerospace plant in Garden Grove continues to leak — and to heat up. The internal temperature has climbed to 90 °F (32 °C), raising fears of a rupture or explosion. 40,000 residents in Garden Grove, Cypress, Stanton, Anaheim, Buena Park and Westminster were evacuated. Firefighters spent overnight inside the hot zone trying to cool an adjacent tank. The Orange County DA has opened an investigation into the cause of the failure. No injuries reported yet.
🇨🇳 TAIWAN — 100+ VESSELS
CHINA DEPLOYS 100+ SHIPS AFTER TRUMP-XI SUMMIT
Taiwan’s National Security Council Secretary General Joseph Wu said Saturday that China has deployed over 100 navy and coast guard vessels in regional waters from the Yellow Sea to the South China Sea and Western Pacific, following the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. The US Congress approved a $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan in January, but Trump has yet to sign off — and US arms shipments are temporarily paused due to the Iran war, per acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao. Taiwanese officials say they were not consulted on the pause.
✈️ JAPAN — HYPERSONIC JET
JAXA TESTS MACH 5 ENGINE — TOKYO-NYC IN 1H45
Japan’s space agency JAXA conducted its first Mach 5 combustion test at the Kakuda Space Center in Miyagi this week — meaning 5 times the speed of sound, roughly 3,800 mph. That’s 2.5 times faster than the Concorde (Mach 2, retired in 2003 after the deadly 2000 Paris crash). At Mach 5, a Tokyo-to-New York flight would theoretically take just 1 hour 45 minutes instead of 14 hours. Reality check: at Mach 5, the plane’s outer surface reaches close to 1,000 °C — comparable to spacecraft reentry. Researchers estimate commercial flights are still at least 20 years away.
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🏁 KYLE BUSCH — CAUSE OF DEATH
FAMILY: SEVERE PNEUMONIA TURNED INTO SEPSIS
The Busch family confirmed Saturday that Kyle Busch died from severe pneumonia that progressed into sepsis — a runaway whole-body immune reaction to infection that can kill within hours. He had been treating what he thought was a sinus cold for weeks. Wednesday, a 911 call obtained by NBC News describes him “coughing up blood” on a bathroom floor at a General Motors training facility before paramedics arrived. He died Thursday at 41. Richard Childress Racing announced Friday they will retire the No. 8 car for the rest of the 2026 season in his honor. His record of 234 NASCAR wins across the three top series remains unmatched.
📺 TRUMP TARGETS COLBERT
TRUMP POSTS AI VIDEO DUMPING COLBERT IN A TRASH CAN
Less than 24 hours after Stephen Colbert’s emotional Late Show finale, Trump posted on Truth Social an AI-generated video showing him sneak up behind Colbert during his farewell monologue, grab him by the shoulders and throw him into a green dumpster. Trump then closes the lid and dances to “YMCA” by the Village People (his rally song). The official White House X account shared the clip with the caption “Bye-bye.” Colbert, who hosted the Late Show for 11 years on CBS, had repeatedly criticized Trump and Paramount’s $16M settlement with him. Trump’s earlier morning post: “Colbert is finally finished at CBS.”
📻 CBS NEWS RADIO — OFF AIR
EDWARD R. MURROW’S NETWORK SIGNS OFF AFTER 98 YEARS
CBS News Radio went silent at 11 p.m. ET Friday after nearly a century on the air. Launched in September 1927, it had served around 700 affiliated stations across the US at the time of its closure. It was home to legends like Edward R. Murrow (whose live broadcasts from rooftops during the London Blitz in 1940 invented modern war reporting), Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather. Parent company Paramount Skydance pulled the plug citing “challenging economic realities”. The closure comes the same week as the Late Show finale — both on Paramount’s watch as it tries to acquire CNN’s parent Warner Bros. Discovery.
🎬 CANNES — DOUBLE PALME
“FJORD” WINS PALME D’OR — MUNGIU’S SECOND
Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, 58, won his second Palme d’Or Saturday night for “Fjord”, a drama starring Sebastian Stan (Marvel’s Winter Soldier) and Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve about a Romanian-Norwegian couple suspected of mistreating their children in a remote Norwegian village. Mungiu’s first Palme came in 2007 for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” about clandestine abortion in Ceaușescu’s Romania. He joins a small club of double-Palme directors including the Dardenne brothers (Belgium), Ken Loach (UK) and Michael Haneke (Austria). Belgian-French actress Virginie Efira won Best Actress for “Soudain” by Japanese director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi.
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