A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists’ dinner attended by President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed him and took him into custody. The president was uninjured and was hustled away. Guests went diving under […]

The Stagecoach music festival held at the Empire Polo Club in the Coachella Valley was evacuated Saturday night due to strong winds, the LA Times reports. An “Emergency Evacuation” notice was posted to the event jumbotron Saturday night, photos and video from attendees at the event show. “The festival has been postponed until further notice,” […]

President Donald Trump and the first lady were rushed from the stage after gunfire erupted at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night—unleashing a chaotic scene at the annual gathering of journalists at the Washington Hilton in DC. Wolf Blitzer, the CNN anchor, was outside the main ballroom when he said he heard powerful […]

President Donald Trump was reported uninjured and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after an unspecified threat. There did not immediately appear to be any injuries, and one law-enforcement official said a shooter opened fire. The Secret Service and other authorities […]

Firefighters are responding to a vegetation fire that has burned about 40 acres in unincorporated Brea on Saturday afternoon, prompting evacuation warnings for nearby communities, Orange County authorities said. The fire, dubbed the “Carbon Fire,” was reported around 1:37 p.m. near Carbon Canyon and Olinda Place, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. Crews are […]

A passenger riding in the backseat of a self-driving taxi operated by Waymo is going viral after sharing video of a surreal moment: getting pulled over by police while no human was behind the wheel. The incident happened in Miami, where Waymo has been testing and expanding its autonomous ride-hailing service. In the video, the […]

The US Department of Justice announced Friday that it plans to revive the firing squad as a method of killing in federal capital cases. In a 52-page memo, the department expanded the ways it can apply the death penalty to include using a group of executioners to simultaneously shoot at a condemned person. Taking action […]

Until yesterday, it looked like Maine would enshrine the country’s first state-level hyperscale data center moratorium into law. But late on Friday, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced she would veto the bill. Though a statement she issued claimed that she agreed a “moratorium is appropriate” in theory, Mills wrote that she would not sign the […]

A person who was standing in freeway lanes was killed in an overnight chain reaction crash caught on video. The Los Angeles Fire Department stated that the crash was reported around 1:56 a.m. Saturday on the westbound span of the 101 Freeway near White Oak Avenue in Encino.  LAFD was not able to provide further details other […]