May 24, 2026 7:58 am
(AP) – Authorities are bracing for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank at a facility in Southern California could leak or explode. An evacuation order has continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 40,000 residents of Garden Grove and several surrounding communities with no timeline on when they can return. No injuries were reported after the pressurized tank began overheating Thursday. Firefighters hope to find a way to cool off the chemical inside the tank so it won’t leak or explode. Experts say a leak would be much better than an explosion. Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Orange County. Several shelters remain open, including at three schools. (Photo: AP)
May 24, 2026 7:51 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service says a man who opened fire near a White House security checkpoint is dead. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Donald Trump in the past month. The agency says in a statement Saturday that a preliminary investigation found the man was near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue when he pulled a weapon from his bag and began firing. Its officers returned fire. The suspect died later at a hospital. A bystander also was shot. Trump was at the White House at the time. Secret Service said he was not “impacted.”
May 24, 2026 7:52 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — President Donald Trump says a deal with Iran, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated.” He announced this on social media after talks with Israel and other allies. The deal, described as a “Memorandum of Understanding,” still needs finalization. It aims to end the war and includes two-month negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. would end its blockade of Iran’s ports. Iran has signaled “narrowing differences” in the talks. Both sides emphasize their key positions and warn of risks if attacks resume. Iran describes the draft as a “framework agreement” for more talks.
May 24, 2026 7:31 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot. The department says the information about the prosecutions is “partisan propaganda.” The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of the Capitol assault. On that day more than five years ago, hundreds of supporters of Republican President Donald Trump stormed the building in an effort to halt the congressional certification of his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
May 24, 2026 7:00 am
DONORA, Pa. — Washington County 911 says one person was arrested after police and SWAT were called to a home on McCrae Avenue just before one o’clock Saturday afternoon. According to reports, a man barricaded himself inside the building. The situation impacted public transit. Officials with Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority said the Local 4 could not serve Castner Ave from 1st and McCrea or any of Modisette Avenue. There has been no information released on what prompted the SWAT call or the identity of the person taken into custody.
May 24, 2026 7:00 am
The pedestrian who was killed early Saturday morning has been identified by police as 21-year-old Phillip Frye of Meadowlands. Authorities say Frye was struck by a vehicle heading south on Pike Street in Chartiers Township just after two o’clock. Washington County 911 says the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene. Washington County officials were assisted by Canonsburg Ambulance, the Chartiers Township Fire Department and the Pennsylvania State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit.
May 24, 2026 8:04 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — It looked like progressive Chris Rabb had a mountain to climb to win the Democratic nomination for a congressional district in Philadelphia. The mayor and the city’s Democratic Party had endorsed another candidate in this week’s primary. So had members of Pennsylvania’s delegation in the U.S. House. One Rabb rival was backed by millions of dollars. A second benefited from a get-out-the-vote operation run by the influential local building trades unions. But Rabb finished 15 percentage points ahead of his closest competitor in Tuesday’s election, and the state representative is likely on his way to Washington because no Republican sought the GOP nomination. Rabb was propelled by a constellation of progressive groups, charting a path to victory partly by assailing his own party as listening more to donors than voters. He credited a grassroots movement inspired by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, alarmed by Republican President Donald Trump and hungry for a government responsive to their needs.
May 23, 2026 7:21 am
GARDEN GROVE, CALIFORNIA (AP) — About 40,000 people are under evacuation orders and schools have shut down in Southern California due to a hazardous chemical leak. Officials say a storage tank began leaking methyl methacrylate, a chemical used in making plastic parts. The tank overheated Thursday at an aerospace plastics facility in Garden Grove, where evacuations were initially ordered. Officials expanded evacuation orders Friday to include parts of Cypress, Stanton, Anaheim, Buena Park and Westminster after failing to stop the leak overnight. The tank was holding between 6,000 and 7,000 gallons of the chemical at the GKN Aerospace facility, which makes parts for commercial and military aircraft.
May 23, 2026 9:12 am
RUSSIA (AP) — A Ukrainian drone attack has caused a fire at a Russian oil terminal, according to officials in Russia’s Krasnodar region. The incident occurred overnight in Novorossiysk, where falling drone debris sparked the fire, injuring two people. Russia’s Astra news outlet reported that Ukrainian drones struck the Sheskharis oil terminal, a key site for Russian state-controlled pipelines. Ukraine has not commented on the attack. Meanwhile, the death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike on a college dormitory in Starobilsk has risen to 12. Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the attack and called for military retaliation.
May 23, 2026 4:00 am
DUNBAR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A man was electrocuted in Fayette County on Friday. The Fayette County Coroner’s Office says it was called to Laurel Hill Road in Dunbar Township for a deceased person. Aaron Cottrell, 32, was pronounced dead due to an accidental electrocution. The coroner’s office says Cottrell was not on the property “in an employment capacity by the church or any commercial business.” According to Pennsylvania State Police, Cottrell was found with a pole saw and a backpack. He’d apparently been trying to take wire from electrical lines when he was electrocuted.
