Man killed by Secret Service was under an order to stay away from White House

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/25 9:18A Patrick Terpstra

The man who died after exchanging gunfire with the U.S. Secret Service near the White House on Saturday had been arrested at the complex twice before in 2025 and was ordered to stay away. The U.S. Secret Service said 21-year-old Nasire Best...

Spanish citizen evacuated from MV Hondius cruise ship tests positive for hantavirus

News 5 Cleveland (World News) 5/25 8:45A Pau Mosquera, CNN

Spains Ministry of Health said Monday that a Spanish national, who was evacuated from MV Hondius and is isolating at a hospital in Madrid, has tested positive of hantavirus. The patient is one of the 14 Spaniards who were aboard the MV Hondius....

Airbnb cracking down on Memorial Day house parties

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/25 4:46A Scripps News Group

Visitors and residents in San Diego, California, call Pacific Beach a "party scene. And on holiday weekends like Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, it feels like it. But while many go there to celebrate, some neighbors and short-term rental...

The origins of Memorial Day and how it has evolved

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/25 4:19A AP via Scripps News Group

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that is officially about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it has come to signal the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of travel and discounts on anything from mattresses to lawn mowers....

Georgia sixth grader has high hopes in return to Scripps National Spelling Bee

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/25 3:19A Stephanie Liebergen

The 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee kicks off Tuesday, and hundreds of kids from around the globe will compete for the championship trophy. 12-year-old Sarv Dharavane from Georgia is one of a handful of returning finalists, and he says hes...

Save on grilling, despite record high beef prices

News 5 Cleveland (Money) 5/25 2:07A John Matarese

This summer grilling season, ribeye steak might cost you $21.99 a pound. Ground chuck for burgers is $6.49 a pound or higher if you want leaner ground beef. It's impacting everyone hoping to grill up a nice dinner. "The food is expensive right...

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/24 11:31P By NICOLE WINFIELD, KAITLYN HUAM

VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts...

How Congo is battling an Ebola outbreak complicated by aid cuts, armed rebels and anger

News 5 Cleveland (World News) 5/24 9:30A AP via Scripps News Group

Arson attacks on Ebola treatment centers in eastern Congo underscore the serious challenges authorities face including a backlash in local communities as they try to stem an outbreak of the infectious disease that has been declared a global...

50K residents in California told to leave their homes as threat of chemical explosion looms

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/24 2:10A Nina Giraldo, Taylor Romine, Emm

As officials in Southern California race to cool down a massive tank filled with a toxic chemical at risk of explosion, tens of thousands of nearby residents have been forced to leave their homes due to health concerns and the risk of...

Russia uses hypersonic Oreshnik missile in mass attack on Kyiv

News 5 Cleveland (World News) 5/24 1:30A AP via Scripps News Group

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday Russia used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv on Sunday that killed at least two people, marking the third time the weapon has...

Officials race to prevent explosion at aerospace plastics plant in Southern California

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/23 8:57A AP via Scripps News Group

Authorities in Southern California on Friday were racing to figure out how to prevent the explosion of a storage tank that has been leaking a hazardous chemical used to make plastic parts, as some 40,000 people were under evacuation orders in the...

Tenn. man says he tried to return a $20,000 IRS error — then got charged interest

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/23 8:13A Hannah McDonald

A Coopertown, Tennessee, man says the IRS sent him a $20,000 tax refund by mistake and that trying to return it cost him years of frustration, interest charges, and eventually his entire tax refund. Wilson Perry Kirby, 76, a retired Montgomery...

Why nearly every Scripps Bee finalist has a coach — and why one stands above the rest

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/23 7:24A AP via Scripps News Group

When Dev Shah won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2023 and Faizan Zaki took the title last year, they posed for remarkably similar photos on the confetti-strewn stage. Standing next to them, beaming, was a bespectacled man in an aloha shirt,...

Family says pneumonia, sepsis led to death of NASCAR’s Kyle Busch

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/23 6:02A AP via Scripps News Group

Kyle Busch died after severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications, according to a statement released by his family. Dakota Hunter, vice president of Kyle Busch Companies, said in a news...

Stephen Colbert returns to Michigan public station after final 'Late Night' show

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/23 5:54A Scripps News Group

Before Stephen Colbert made his debut on "Late Night" in 2015, he stopped by Monroe, Michigan, where he interviewed Eminem on the Monroe public TV show "Only in Monroe." During his final show on CBS on Thursday, Colbert alluded to that when he...