The 21-year-old who pulled a revolver out of a bag and opened fire at Secret Service agents outside the White House died after being shot, according to CNN.
CNN gave an update based on a statement from the Secret Service. Two people had been shot and wounded during an "encounter" with Secret Service, CNN reported earlier, but law enforcement later confirmed that one of the people shot was a bystander, who was hit by crossfire.
The shooter died while in the hospital, according to CNN reporters, adding that the bystander is in "critical condition."
Reporters broke the news earlier in the day as dozens of gunshots could be heard ringing out in the background. More information about the shooter has not been released by law enforcement.
Some of Donald Trump's most vocal supporters are publicly turning on the president over his emerging Iran peace framework, posting attacks that range from disappointment to outright fury.
Conservative commentator David Hookstead chimed in with a sharp assessment of the reported terms.
"If the reported details of the Iran deal are accurate, then it represents a total strategic failure," Hookstead wrote. "Absolutely stunning how poorly this has been managed."
@MindysMom2009, an account that tagged Trump officials directly and frequently posts Trump's quotes, responded to that statement, warning that the framework as reported would be a death blow for the movement.
"MAGA is done," the account wrote, citing the possibility that Iran would retain nuclear capabilities in exchange for lifting sanctions and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
@UltraMaga73, with an explicit MAGA bio, went further.
"yeah I'm sorry but there is no such f------ thing as a PEACE deal with Iran," the user wrote. "How stupid are we?? Bomb the f--- out of them for good."
Ron Strong, who posts as @strong54034 and often criticizes Barack Obama, urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ignore Trump entirely.
"Bibi, DONT ACCEPT A BAD IRAN DEAL! Stop listening to trump, hes a coward! Finish the iranian scum regime yourself!" Strong wrote.
Similar language arose on Trump's post announcing a tentative deal on Truth Social, with self-identified MAGA followers lashing out against it.
One of those accounts, @TBoyZ, has recently voiced support for Trump and his allies. TBoyZ responded to Trump with, "Sir, we are being played by all involved! Finish it!!"
Two people were shot and wounded in an "encounter with Secret Service" outside the White House, according to breaking reports from CNN.
John Miller, the chief law enforcement analyst for CNN, said while speaking live on TV that law enforcement reported one person was "taken down" in the firefight.
Dozens of gunshots rang out just outside the White House on Saturday, with President Trump in residence at the White House, Miller said.
Journalists heard the gunshots while outside the White House and were evacuated into the press briefing room. A lockdown on the White House was lifted a few minutes later. However, the reason for the shots was still unknown.
A video by ABC reporter Selina Wang reveals the moment dozens of gunshots started ringing out just outside the White House.
"I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots," Wang wrote in a post on X describing the scene. "It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now."
In the video, several gunshots can be heard while Wang is still talking. Only after they continue popping in the background does Wang appear shocked before she dives for cover and crawls away.
According to reporting by CNN, Secret Service officials were "investigating reports of shots fired at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, which is just outside the White House complex."
"One reporter said the sounds appeared to come from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building side of the White House complex," according to CNN. "Secret Service agents carrying rifles could be seen moving through the North Lawn area following the incident and blocking the White House press briefing room."
Journalists on the North Lawn had to rush into the White House briefing room, CNN reported. "Inside the White House, reporters were told to shelter in place as Secret Service agents shouted 'get down' and warned of 'shots fired.'"
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday publicly attacked the Iran agreement that President Donald Trump is reportedly close to finalizing, comparing it unfavorably to the Obama-era nuclear deal and demanding more aggressive action against Tehran.
In a post on X, the former Trump official from term one took direct aim at the framework that Trump announced from the Oval Office earlier in the day, which would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bring in a coalition of Arab and Muslim nations.
"The deal being floated with Iran seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook: Pay the IRGC to build a WMD program and terrorize the world," Pompeo wrote, naming three Obama administration officials closely associated with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
"Not remotely America First," Pompeo added.
The former secretary of state, who hasn't been a part of the administration for the president's second term, called for a far more aggressive posture toward Tehran.
"It's straightforward: Open the damned strait. Deny Iran access to money. Take out enough Iranian capability so it cannot threaten our allies in the region," Pompeo wrote.
"Overdue. Let's go," he concluded.
Trump himself confirmed earlier Saturday that a peace framework involving Iran had been "largely negotiated."
The deal being floated with Iran seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook: Pay the IRGC to build a WMD program and terrorize the world.
Not remotely America First. It’s straightforward: Open the damned strait. Deny Iran access to money. Take out… — Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) May 23, 2026
Gunshots were heard ringing out just outside the White House, multiple journalists are reporting on Saturday.
"Many gunshots were heard when we were at the White House," wrote ABC senior White House correspondent Selina Wang. "We were told to run into the press briefing room."
Accounts on X, citing NBC and ABC, reported that as many as 20 to 30 gunshots were heard, though the cause was not immediately explained.
"She may have actually effectively ruled against the Trumps without saying so," Wolff said in a podcast episode on Saturday, referring to the federal judge who dismissed his suit against Melania. "Kicking the case out of federal court by default puts it back into state court, which is what we wanted in the first place."
Wolff sued the first lady last year after her lawyers threatened him with a defamation lawsuit because he connected her to Jeffrey Epstein.
On Friday, New York-based U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, accused Wolff in a scathing opinion of trying to go around the standard legal process by pre-emptively suing Melania instead of defending himself against her lawsuit.
"I mean, we knew from the beginning, when we drew a Trump judge in federal court in the Southern District in New York, that that was problematic," Wolff said. "She was in this incredibly awkward position of having to decide a case directly involving the president's family."
According to Wolff, he filed his lawsuit in a New York state court, but Melania's lawyers moved it to federal court. Vyskocil then determined that Melania is a Florida resident.
"One of the ways you get to be a federal case is if the parties are from two different states," the New York-based Wolff explained. "This is an important point because if the judge found that she doesn't live in Florida, then it would not have been a federal case."
Wolff said he would have preferred to see the case play out in a New York state court because of "what are called anti-SLAPP laws, which is to say that you can't use threats of libel to intimidate people."
From what he can tell, Melania "lives in New York" and "never effectively moved out of Trump Tower."
He added, "This is and has always been, from our side, a free speech case. It's not about money."
Former Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, who was famously crushed in a doorway while defending the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, responded with disgust this week to a Republican congressman's claim that the deadly riot was "staged."
Hodges appeared on MS NOW to discuss the Trump-created $1.8 billion slush fund that could compensate January 6 defendants. Asked about a Republican congressman's recent on-camera dismissal of the entire riot as a manufactured event, Hodges did not hold back.
"Yeah, that is disgusting," Hodges said. "People died, you know, police officers died. They died in the aftermath, died from suicide, rioters, insurrectionists died."
The congressman's comments, played for Hodges during the interview, included the claim that "January 6th is an issue that was made up in the first place" and that "it was a self-made riot. By members who hate Trump." When the reporter pointed out that Republican members of Congress ran for their lives during the attack, the congressman responded only with vague references to police officers "letting people in the building."
Hodges rejected that framing.
"The fear that congressmen, congresswomen and their staff were feeling were real," he said. "The fear that officers were feeling were real. None of that was staged. I don't know why he would say that."
He added that he is not aware of any legitimate evidence supporting the "staged" claim.
"I've heard plenty of conspiracy theories about how people believe it was staged, but nothing that has ever, as any legitimate meaning," Hodges said.
Hodges also weighed in on the politics of the moment. He said the Trump-backed payment fund for January 6 defendants strikes him as a transactional move designed to encourage future political violence.
"Trump has been talking for years now about trying to give these people money because, I mean, he wants them on retainer for the next time," Hodges said. "He wants to influence the course of history with mass violence."
He said he is not interested in any payment for himself.
"I got paid for my work that day. All my colleagues got paid for that work that day," he said. "I'm more worried about any future violence that these kind of payouts might encourage from people who've already demonstrated that they are willing to commit political violence in the name of Donald Trump."
He closed by describing what the entire episode has felt like to live through.
"It's outrageous and it's disgusting and it's never ending," Hodges said.
A frequent target of Donald Trump took the same cognitive test that the president keeps bragging about, and came away from it with a major warning for the entire country.
Jim Acosta, the former CNN reporter Trump repeatedly attacked from the White House podium, walked through the Montreal Cognitive Assessment on his show this week. He passed it. He also said no president should ever need to take it.
The test, known as the MoCA, was administered by Dr. Rob Davidson of the Committee to Protect Healthcare. Acosta drew the cube, copied the clock, identified the lion, rhino, and camel, named the date, and worked through the serial seven subtraction. He needed a category cue to recall one word, but otherwise sailed through the screening.
Then he turned to the camera and made his point.
"This is something that the president of the United States should not be administered," Acosta said. "The president of the United States should not be taking a cognitive test ever, because we should be electing people to the office of the president of the United States where this is not an issue."
Acosta's larger point was about Trump's pattern. The president has bragged for years about acing the same test, with his repeated comments about identifying "the squirrel" becoming a running joke during his second term. According to Acosta, the fact that Trump keeps taking the test at all is the actual headline.
"If he is actually taking multiple cognitive tests, hello everybody, that is a story," Acosta said. "That is a major, major story."
Acosta also took aim at Trump's habit of bragging about the results. The MoCA is designed to detect mild cognitive impairment, not measure intelligence, and Acosta compared the appropriate response to a passing score with the way Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders used to handle touchdowns.
"Act like you've been there before," Acosta said. "If you take a cognitive test, you get a good score, and you just kind of go back to your day."
The full episode is available on Acosta's YouTube channel.
FBI Director Kash Patel's latest training gimmick will be a competition to find the fittest male and female agents, according to new reports.
The Daily Mail and Washington Examiner confirmed with bureau officials that the internal contest will look for the 'fittest' agents.
The FBI will host a two-day event in early July at its Quantico Training Academy in Virginia, according to reporting by the Daily Mail.
Each of the FBI's 56 field offices is expected to nominate one male and one female agent to represent them at the event, according to an FBI spokesperson who spoke with the Daily Mail.
"All 56 field offices across the nation are being actively encouraged to put forward their absolute best," the Daily Mail reported, citing an FBI spokesperson. "The bureau is framing the intense, multi-day competition as a unique way to foster camaraderie while keeping elite agents in peak physical condition."
According to reporting by The Washington Examiner, which also spoke to an FBI spokesperson, the contest is voluntary and only open to "line-level, nonsupervisory special agents."
Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.
Levin took to X to announce that he had introduced an amendment to block members of Congress, the president, and the vice president from collecting any money from the controversial fund unless a court specifically orders it. Every Republican on the committee voted against his amendment, according to his video.
"Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up," Levin wrote in the caption.
The California Democrat said the vote allows MAGA Republicans in Congress, along with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, to position themselves as victims of "government weaponization" and collect settlement funds out of the pool Trump created.
"That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of," Levin wrote.
The reaction was immediate. Former GOP insider Tara Setmayer reposted Levin's thread with a single line.
"Republicans in Congress did WHAT???" Setmayer wrote.
Media producer Roy Bellamy offered a different take.
"I hope this ends up like a class action suit and everyone gets 35 cents," Bellamy wrote.
Disability rights advocate James Tate kept it simple.
"Republicans love stealing tax dollars," Tate wrote on X.
President Donald Trump confirmed Friday afternoon what set off hours of online speculation, posting to Truth Social with an Oval Office statement about a major foreign policy development.
In the post, Trump said he had spoken with a long list of Arab and Muslim world leaders about a possible peace agreement involving Iran.
"I am in the Oval Office at the White House where we just had a very good call with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia," Trump wrote, going on to name the leaders of the UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain. The call concerned "the Islamic Republic of Iran, and all things related to a Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE."
The president said the framework is close to done.
"An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed," Trump wrote.
He added that he had spoken separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that "final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly."
Trump closed with one specific detail.
"In addition to many other elements of the Agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened," he wrote.
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt weighed in on what he sees as a major threat to the U.S.
Schmidt said on the latest episode of his program that, "47 percent of the country doesn't have $400 available for an emergency, and that is a foremost threat to the stability of the Republic."
He was commenting on Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and billionaire. Schmidt rebuffed Bezos' statements from a Friday interview arguing that working Americans pay too much in taxes. Schmidt called it performative coming from a billionaire "with a rocket in the background."
Schmidt compared Bezos' wife, Lauren Sanchez, to a "Marie Antoinette in the digital age" and said she's "200 percent happier than the normal person" right now.
"You can just see him sitting on the back of his $500 million boat with Lauren Sanchez discussing the plight of the nurse in Queens," Schmidt said. "What Bezos is okay with when he talks about the bottom half of the country by income distribution paying 3 percent of the taxes is basically a nation of serfs."
For Schmidt, the idea goes against the "economics that are part of our politics aspirationally" and the effort "to figure out how to rebuild the middle class of the country that used to include nurses," he said.
Americans' financial situations are hampering their ability to stand up to "the obscenity of what's going on in the country by way of corruption, by way of capitulation," but there's still "a deep anger in the public," Schmidt said.
"There's a lot of people, including some in the resistance movement, including on their podcasts, who have lamented why there's not 40 million people in the street, which I think is a very stupid lament," Schmidt said. "The answer to the question is because people are struggling to get by, and life is hard. And it's not 1967 anymore."
