The White House was briefly locked down Saturday evening after 20 to 30 gunshots were heard nearby. The Secret Service and FBI responded, and the lockdown was lifted within an hour.
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Authorities ordered more than 40,000 people to evacuate parts of Orange County, California, after a tank holding toxic methyl methacrylate at an aerospace facility became unstable and risked explosion. Officials say the tank is likely to fail, though no injuries have been reported.
A federal judge dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling the prosecution was vindictive following his successful challenge to wrongful deportation.
Charles Randell Berry was arrested in Connecticut for the 1986 rape and murder of Roberta Walls in Virginia Beach, following new forensic genealogy evidence. Berry faces charges of rape and capital murder and awaits extradition to Virginia.
A Virginia judge dismissed all criminal charges against Ebony Parker, the former assistant principal accused of neglect in a 6-year-old student's shooting of a teacher. The ruling follows a $10 million civil verdict against Parker in the case.
Tennessee halted the execution of Tony Carruthers after officials failed to find a vein for lethal injection drugs. Carruthers, convicted of a 1994 triple murder, has maintained his innocence and his attorneys raised concerns about the execution process and evidence.
Gabriela Gonzalez and two others face charges in a murder-for-hire plot targeting Jack Avery, the father of her child, amid a custody dispute. The scheme involved payments to an undercover FBI agent posing as a hitman.
Colorado Democrats censured Gov. Jared Polis after he commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, convicted for election tampering. The party condemned the decision as harmful to election integrity and barred Polis from party events.