Global cyber flaw sparks website shutdowns as Toledo evacuates and courts block prison health rules

The FBI and NSA alerted that a flaw in the PHP programming language could let attackers seize control of millions of websites, causing many government sites to go offline for emergency patches. Meanwhile, an overnight blast at MC Tank Transport in Toledo released a fog-like plume of chemicals used in plastics and paints, leading the mayor to order the evacuation of about 1,000 residents and cancel local schools while firefighters continued to monitor the site for further risk.

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's attempt to impose new limits on gender-affirming medical care for incarcerated transgender individuals, keeping existing hormone-therapy provisions in place. Justice Elena Kagan used a Washington event to denounce a series of recent decisions she believes erode democratic function. Additional developments included the State Department pulling nonessential staff from Saudi Arabia amid rising Houthi-Saudi hostilities and partial reopening of Riyadh's airport for domestic flights.