The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement late Saturday that, according to a preliminary investigation, the person approached a checkpoint shortly after 6 p.m. ET “removed a weapon from his bag and began firing at posted officers.”

Officers returned fire and hit the suspect, who was transported to an area hospital, where he later died, according to the Secret Service.

A bystander was struck, but a law enforcement official said it wasn’t clear whether that person was struck by the suspect’s initial bullets or those fired subsequently by officers.

Secret Service said none of its officers were injured, and that President Donald Trump — who was at the White House at the time — was not “impacted.”

Journalists working at the White House on Saturday reported hearing a series of gunshots and were told to seek shelter inside the press briefing room.

On X, the Secret Service said it was “aware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW” — one block from the White House — and was “working to corroborate the information with personnel on the ground.” It said it will have an update shortly.

In a social media post, FBI Director Kash Patel said officers were responding to shots fired and said he would “update the public as we’re able.”

President Donald Trump was inside the White House at the time.

Evidence of the shooting was visible on a sidewalk just outside the White House complex, where yellow crime scene tape snaked across the pavement and officers with the U.S. Secret Service placed dozens of orange evidence markers on the ground. Medical material, including what appeared to be purple surgical gloves and kits typically used by emergency medical personnel, were also seen.

In a post shared on X, ABC News senior White House correspondent Selina Wang shared dramatic video of the moment she said she heard what “sounded like dozens of gunshots” and ducked for cover. Writing that she had been performing a routine task that White House reporters do daily — filming themselves on a cellphone for a social media post — Wang’s video shows her speaking for a few seconds about Trump’s statements earlier Saturday about a potential Iran deal.

As the sounds of gunfire are heard in the background, Wang’s eyes grow wider, and she ducks down in the media tent, which is among those situated in a line along the White House driveway where broadcasters film their reports. On X, Wang’s video had been shared thousands of times as of Saturday evening, and viewed at least 3 million times.

The Metropolitan Police Department said on its X Account that the Secret Service was working the scene and cautioned people to avoid the area. The scene is near where a gunman ambushed two members of the West Virginia National Guard last November.

U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died from her wounds. Andrew Wolfe, then 24, was critically wounded. Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been charged in that incident.

The gunfire Saturday comes nearly a month after what law enforcement authorities said was an attempted assassination of the president on April 25 as he attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at a Washington hotel. Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California, recently pleaded not guilty to charges that he attempted to kill Trump and remains in federal custody.

Following that scare, Secret Service officers shot a suspect they said had fired at officers near the Washington Monument, also near the White House. Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas, was charged in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in connection with the May 4 shooting. A teenage bystander was wounded in that incident.

Polymarket removed a forum related to the rescue mission of U.S. military servicemembers amid political pressure, the latest sign of mounting scrutiny around prediction markets.

U.S. and Iranian military forces are searching for a missing American airman after its F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran on Friday. One crew member has been rescued, but another is not accounted for.

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., decried the Polymarket page that allowed users to bet on which day the U.S. would confirm the rescue of the two airmen after an American F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran. The lawmaker called the page “DISGUSTING” in an X post.

“They could be your neighbor, a friend, a family member,” Moulton wrote on Friday. “And people are betting on whether or not they’ll be saved.”

In a response on X, Polymarket said: “We took this market down immediately as it does not meet our integrity standards.”

“It should not have been posted, and we are investigating how this slipped through our internal safeguards,” Polymarket wrote.

In a separate X post, Polymarket said it doesn’t “make money or charge any fees on any geopolitical markets.”

In an email to CNBC, Moulton said, “Polymarket didn’t take that market down because it violated their standards. They took it down because we called them out.”

Moulton also said that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has the authority to regulate prediction market platforms, but it is doing nothing.

“That needs to change, too,” he said. “Yesterday, there were 219 active bets in Polymarket’s ‘war’ category. Today, there are 223. This is spreading, and Congress needs to act.”

Moulton last month banned his staff from using prediction market platforms like Polymarket or Kalshi, a policy that his office believes is the first of its kind in Congress.

“Constituents that we serve should trust us to make decisions based on the right thing for do for our nation, not based on how bets might turn out,” Moulton said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

Moulton also said on X that Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, “is an investor in this dystopian death market and may have access to intelligence that isn’t public yet.”

Requests for comment from Trump Jr. weren’t immediately returned to CNBC.

The Massachusetts lawmaker is part of a growing chorus of voices in Washington calling for stronger oversight of these betting platforms as interest swells.

A group of congressional Democrats introduced legislation late last month that would bar prediction markets from allowing wagers on elections, war and government actions, in addition to sports.

In February, six Democratic senators urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to clarify that it will prohibit any contracts related to an individual’s death. These contracts “present dangerous national security risks,” the lawmakers wrote.

The CFTC on Thursday announced lawsuits against three states over what it saw as efforts to circumvent the organization’s sole regulatory authority over prediction markets.

The NFL has also asked prediction market operators to keep specific event contracts that the league deems “objectionable bets” off their platforms. The league outlined examples of event contracts that could be easily manipulated, inherently objectionable, related to officiating, and knowable in advance — and asked that operators refrain from offering such trades.

— CNBC’s Dan Mangan, Azhar Sukri and Luke Fountain contributed to this report.

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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that Sri Lanka’s entire transport system must undergo a rapid transformation to create a more efficient, safe and technologically advanced transport system, thereby providing the public with a dignified and reliable service.

The President made these remarks during a meeting held this morning (12) at the Presidential Secretariat with officials from the Ministry of Transport, Highways and Urban Development, according to the President’s Media Division (PMD).

During the meeting, the President was briefed on a strategic plan prepared by the Ministry under five key pillars: economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, digital transformation, social equity and accessibility, and safety and security, aimed at revitalising the transport sector.

As a solution to the severe traffic congestion in Colombo, it was noted that the government plans to introduce the Lanka Metro Transit bus service, PMD said in the statement. 

The required infrastructure is currently being developed, and the buses are expected to be brought to the country by August this year under this project.

The project is planned to be implemented as a pilot initiative along six main roads surrounding Colombo, with the programme initially starting from the Western Province and later extending to the Galle and Kandy districts. Over the next three years, the service is expected to extend to eight major cities.

The pilot project aims to reduce the number of private vehicles entering Colombo daily and encourage the public to shift towards public transport. 

The President stressed that identifying dedicated bus priority lanes and maintaining their efficiency will be essential for the project’s success.

President Dissanayake also highlighted the need to replace the fragmented existing bus services with a system of transport companies operating under a cluster model to provide the public with quality services. 

The President emphasised that “What individuals seek is the availability of quality transportation services; the manner in which these services are delivered is of minimal interest to them,” the statement said.

Noting that Sri Lanka’s cities developed over time rather than through systematic planning, the President said transport management within the existing urban framework must be handled carefully, and observed that implementing the bus cluster system represents the most effective solution to this challenge.

Under this system, a company would be established to deploy buses and the President indicated that, should any issues regarding profitability arise, the government would have the capacity to provide support to the company. 

The President further stressed the importance of formal agreements between bus owners, companies and the government to ensure uninterrupted services, stating that this approach would be more practical than incurring high costs in purchasing new buses.

The President also underscored the importance of developing Multi-modal Transport Hubs (MTH) around the railway network to integrate various modes of transport. 

Discussions were held on modernising the Kelani Valley Railway line and introducing an electronic system for the expressway network.

Special emphasis was also placed on the welfare of employees in the transport sector. The President noted that service conditions should be structured to ensure that employees receive due respect and that their future security is safeguarded.

In particular, he highlighted the importance of providing formal appointment letters and ensuring systematic welfare services, especially for workers in the private sector, the statement noted.

Attention was drawn to the existing situation regarding the on-site fine system and the demerit point mechanism. Although driving licenses have been issued with embedded chips for the past decade, no technological software system had been developed to implement a proper demerit point mechanism, rendering the system largely ineffective.  

It was noted that the introduction of Gov.pay now provides the capability to rectify this system and a fully operational mechanism could be established within six to seven months.

A regulatory framework has been developed for three-wheeled vehicles, taxis and school vans, which is expected to be presented after consultations with all relevant stakeholders.

Attention was also drawn to issues arising with the ‘Sisu Sariya’ bus service. It was noted that the government allocated LKR 2,200 million for the programme in 2025, of which LKR 500 million remained unutilised. Discussions focused on ways to enhance the efficiency of the ‘Sisu Sariya’ programme and to expand it in a manner that delivers direct benefits to students.

The establishment of a National Centre for Transport Research and Development, bringing together all transport sector institutions under a single platform, was also discussed.

The meeting was attended by Minister of Transport, Highways and Urban Development, Bimal Rathnayake, Deputy Minister of Transport and Highways, Prasanna Gunasena, Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, Highways and Urban Development Senior Professor Kapila Perera, senior officials of the Ministry and heads and senior officers from institutions under the Ministry, including the Sri Lanka Railways Department, the Department of Motor Traffic, the National Transport Commission and the Sri Lanka Transport Board.

–PMD–

The first Technology Service and Support Centre of the Ministry of Science and Technology was officially inaugurated today (23) at the University of Vavuniya.

The centre was formally inaugurated by the Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Krishantha Abeysena, and the Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development, Sunil Handunneththi.

The centre aims to support entrepreneurship, innovation, research commercialization, and startup development in the Northern Province.

In the initial phase, 24 such Technology Service and Support Centres are planned to be established across the country, starting with state universities and later extending to district-level coverage nationwide.