Today's five.

A 21-year-old from Dundalk, Maryland walked up to the Secret Service checkpoint at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, pulled a handgun from a bag, and opened fire. Officers returned fire. The suspect, identified as Nasire Best, was taken to a hospital and died. A bystander was also hit — non-life-threatening injuries. President Trump was inside at the time. NBC had the ID by Sunday morning; The Hill led with the exchange-of-gunfire framing; Bloomberg kept it clean and procedural. The checkpoint did exactly what a checkpoint is supposed to do.

Pneumonia is supposed to be the thing you recover from — and for Kyle Busch, it wasn't. The two-time NASCAR champion died Thursday after severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, with his family describing the complications as "rapid and overwhelming." He was 41. NPR noted he had passed out in a Chevrolet simulator the day before he died. His family released the cause of death Saturday through the vice president of Kyle Busch Companies. Sepsis kills around 270,000 Americans a year, mostly quietly, mostly without headlines. It doesn't usually take someone who races cars for a living.

Memorial Day is the one holiday where the point is explicitly not to have fun, and somehow that still needs to be said out loud every year. Ceremonies ran across the country — South Florida held solemn services, Freedom 250 hosted a candlelight tribute highlighting individual fallen veterans by name, including Captain Humber "Rocky" Versace. National Review made the quieter point: for military families, the weight doesn't show up in headlines or parades. It's the cumulative, ordinary difficulty of a life shaped by service and loss. The ceremonies end. The calendar moves on. The families don't get that option.

Eleven people on Earth remember Pearl Harbor from the inside, and one of them is 106 years old and still talking about it. Freeman Johnson, the oldest living survivor of the December 7, 1941 attack, is spending the 85th anniversary doing what he's apparently done for decades — making sure people understand what that morning actually felt like. There were once thousands of survivors. Now there are eleven. The math is doing its own work here. Johnson isn't a monument. He's a person who watched history happen and outlived almost everyone else who did.

A 38-day military campaign, a fragile ceasefire, a mutual blockade at the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump is describing his own decision as a coin flip. He told Axios he'd either make a "good" deal or "blow them to kingdom come" — and would know by Sunday. He did not know by Sunday. NBC reported the deal won't be signed yet but that progress exists. Iran's state-affiliated press called Trump's "largely negotiated" claim inconsistent with reality. Axios led with Trump's candor; Time led with Tehran pushing back. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.