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Reported gunfire near White House under investigation

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating reports of gunfire near the White House early Sunday. It said police responded to the area around Lafayette Park shortly after midnight. A search of the park and nearby blocks did not locate a suspect and no injuries were reported, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in an online post.

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He said the Secret Service is working with D.C. police and U.S. Park Police for a possible vehicle and a person of interest. Guglielmi said security has been tightened around the White House, but operations remain normal. Earlier road closures “in effect for H Street, NW (15th–17th), I Street, NW (15th–17th), and 16th Street, NW (K Street south to H Street)” ended before 8:30 a.m. According to his schedule, President Donald Trump was at the White House overnight.

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Civil rights groups make urgent plea for voting rights in DC, ahead of midterm elections

By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting rights, the work of the Civil Rights Movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall Friday, with protesters gathering ahead of midterm elections and following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that some have condemned as detrimental to Black Americans. Hundreds of people rallied on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the 2026 “Defend the Vote” March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, echoing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 march. The event follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark April decision in Louisiana v. Callais that reinterpreted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, allowing Southern states to redraw their congressional maps in a way that erodes equal representation in Black communities. “We’ve been doing these marches for years, but this is probably the most important because this is the first year we are marching that the voting rights bill has been nullified by the Supreme Court,” Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Civil rights leaders and major Democratic political figures rallied attendees before rallygoers marched past national monuments, including the late King's memorial.
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