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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House complex is back to normal after a shooting incident outside the gates. The Secret Service says one of its uniformed officers shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint this afternoon and refused to drop his weapon. The suspect is hospitalized with a gunshot wound. The White House was briefly placed on a security alert. President Barack Obama was away playing golf at the time.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Donald Trump is describing Hillary Clinton as "heartless" for backing restrictions on gun ownership. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee says it would leave Americans in high-crime areas unable to protect themselves. Trump claims Clinton would seek to "abolish" the Second Amendment if elected president. He made the remarks at the National Rifle Association convention in Kentucky. The NRA endorsed Trump today.
CAIRO (AP) — The world wants to know what caused EgyptAir Flight 804 to plunge into the Mediterranean Sea. Some experts fear the possibility of terrorism. Search crews from a number of nations are combing the crash area for wreckage. They hope to eventually find the flight recorders which will give investigators the vital clues they need to determine why the Airbus A320, with 66 people aboard, went down early Thursday on a flight from Paris to Cairo.
MIAMI (AP) — An Afghan who once faced war crimes charges at Guantanamo is now cleared for release. A U.S. review board says it's no longer necessary to continue holding the man known by the single name of Obaidullah. The charges against him were dismissed in 2011. U.S. forces captured him during a raid in Afghanistan in July 2002 when he was about 19. They had found about 20 unactivated land mines buried in a field near his home.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is trying to turn up the heat on Congress to pass legislation to fight the Zika virus. He says Congress has "got to get moving." Both the House and Senate have already advanced bills to fight the mosquito-borne virus, which can cause birth defects. But Obama has threatened to veto the House legislation which contains less money than the Senate bill and only pays for programs through September 30.
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