CBS Evening News, 05/25/26
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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President Trump has said a deal with Iran is "largely negotiated" and that he will either sign "a great and meaningful" pact with Tehran, "or there will be no deal." Fifty thousand Southern California residents remain under evacuation orders Monday after emergency crews raced to prevent a tank holding a volatile industrial chemical from exploding at an aerospace facility in Garden Grove. Saturday's shooting near the White House has raised security concerns ahead of summer celebrations to mark America's 250th birthday. The shooter, who was killed after opening fire on a Secret Service checkpoint, had previously blocked a White House entry lane last June, court records show.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, everyone. I'm Jerika Duncan in for Tony DeCopal. Here's what's ahead on this |
| 0:04.9 | Memorial Day. Deal or no deal. After a weekend of intense diplomacy, President Trump insists |
| 0:12.2 | he's in no rush to reach a peace agreement with Iran. What's being discussed and why some |
| 0:17.4 | prominent Republicans are skeptical. Also tonight, more than 50,000 people still out of their homes in Southern California |
| 0:25.6 | what officials are saying about the risk of an explosion from that cracked chemical tank. |
| 0:30.6 | New details about the gunmen who opened fire near the White House on Saturday, |
| 0:36.6 | and the renewed calls for that |
| 0:38.4 | billion-dollar White House ballroom. Millions of Americans heading home from the holiday weekend, |
| 0:45.6 | paying sky-high gas prices, plus the storm threat for many returning to work tomorrow. |
| 0:52.2 | Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. |
| 0:56.0 | Pope Leo's new warning about artificial intelligence |
| 0:59.0 | and concerns about killer robots and other AI-powered weapons on the battlefield. |
| 1:05.0 | Soccer superstar Leonel Messi clutching his leg in pain just weeks before the World Cup tournament, |
| 1:12.0 | will he be able to play? |
| 1:17.7 | And honoring the fallen on this Memorial Day, those who sacrificed their lives for America's freedoms. |
| 1:29.3 | From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News with Tony DeCopold. |
| 1:37.3 | Good evening everyone and thank you for joining us on this Memorial Day. |
| 1:41.3 | Marathon peace talks between the United States and Iran appear to have no clear finish line. |
| 1:47.0 | Over the weekend, President Trump signaled an agreement could be close. |
| 1:51.0 | Well, tonight that appears even less certain. |
| 1:54.0 | The president announced today a new diplomatic demand calling on Saudi Arabia |
| 1:58.0 | and five other Muslim-majority countries to join the Abraham Accords, |
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