h/t HotAir:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama is making a late-night statement but is not announcing the topic that he will discuss.

Officials say the statement could come as early as 10:30 p.m. EDT.

It is highly unusual that the president would make a late-night statement with not even a hint about what he would discuss.

Details are still coming out…stay tuned.

***UPDATE 10:58 PM ET***

Via ABC News:

Osama bin Laden, hunted as the mastermind behind the worst-ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil, has been killed, sources told ABC News.

His death brings to an end a tumultuous life that saw bin Laden go from being the carefree son of a Saudi billionaire, to terrorist leader and the most wanted man in the world.

Bin Laden created and funded the al Qaeda terror network, which was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The Saudi exile had been a man on the run since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan overthrew the ruling Taliban regime, which harbored bin Laden.

In a video filmed two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, bin Laden gloated about the attack, saying it had exceeded even his “optimistic” calculations.

“Our terrorism is against America. Our terrorism is a blessed terrorism to prevent the unjust person from committing injustice and to stop American support for Israel, which kills our sons,” he said in the video.

Further updates coming, for sure.

***UPDATE 11:10 PM ET***

CNN is reporting that UBL was killed in a mansion in Islamabad, Pakistan. DNA samples obtained from blood relatives allegedly confirm the identity of the person killed in that strike on the mansion in Islamabad.

***UPDATE 11:13 PM ET***

Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin reports to Geraldo that it is confirmed that Osama bin Laden is dead. The intelligence agency has had the DNA samples for decades from relatives, and that is what was used to confirm the identity of the body. Reports say that it happened a week ago, and that the DNA match is the reason for the delay of the identification of the body. Conflicting accounts also say it was a US-led bomb strike in Pakistan, but others are reporting that it was a bullet that killed bin Laden.

Stay tuned for further updates…

***UPDATE 11:47 PM ET****

New info about UBL’s killing – by American hands:

President Barack Obama says Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States.

A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden’s remains, the president said Sunday in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House.

I LOVE OUR AMERICAN MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS! THEY ARE the heroes of today!

***UPDATE 11:55 PM ET***

Info courtesy of HotAir about the firefight between UBL & US Teams:

Update (AP): The city where they got him is named Abbottabad. It’s not in the tribal areas; it’s in the northeastern part of the country, just 40 miles from the seat of government in Islamabad. A telling aside from O’s speech: He said that he called Pakistan’s president after the incident to let him know — which, presumably, means there wasn’t Pakistani cooperation after all. As I said earlier, relations between us will never be the same.

Good news continues to pile in… stay tuned!