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By Kiely Westhoff and Theresa Waldrop, CNN All 18 students and a driver have “varying degrees of injuries” after their bus crashed in eastern Kentucky early Monday, a school official said. No fatalities have been reported, Magoffin County School District Superintendent Chris Meadows said in a statement. The students range from elementary to high school,

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The TSA is ramping up security measures at airports nationwide after admitting to multiple protocol failures that allowed a man to get through a checkpoint with two box cutters. The move comes as passengers are expected to flood airports ahead of Thanksgiving in 10 days. Here’s what else you need to

By Tina Burnside and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Human remains found in a remote California location are those of a mother reported missing Thursday after a “significant amount of blood” was seen in her home, authorities say. In a news release, the Simi Valley Police Department said the remains of Rachel Castillo, 25, were discovered in

By Chris Boyette and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Four University of Idaho students who were found dead Sunday night in a house near campus have been identified, the city of Moscow’s police department said Monday. The slain students were 20-year-old Ethan Chapin of Conway, Washington; 21-year-old Madison Mogen of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; 20-year-old Xana Kernodle of

By Amir Vera, Dakin Andone, Michelle Watson and Carolyn Sung, CNN Police have in custody a University of Virginia student and ex-UVA football player suspected of fatally shooting three current players and wounding two other people late Sunday at the school’s main campus in Charlottesville as a bus returned from a class field trip, school

By Hannah Sarisohn, Emma Tucker and Pete Muntean, CNN The Transportation Security Administration is admitting multiple failures and is instituting alerts to security officers at airports nationwide after a man got through a checkpoint with two box cutters. The move comes as passengers are expected to flood airports ahead of Thanksgiving. TSA security checkpoint agents

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Hundreds of Native American veterans gathered in Washington D.C. on Friday for the dedication ceremony of the National Museum of the American Indian’s National Native Americans Veterans Memorial. The dedication ceremony was part of a three-day event honoring Native American veterans, according to a news release from the Smithsonian. The ceremony

By Zenebou Sylla and Emma Tucker, CNN A memorial honoring the 20 first graders and six educators killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting opened to the public on Sunday, nearly a month before the 10-year commemoration. The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial, designed by Dan Affleck and Ben Waldo, was unveiled publicly in Newtown,

By Michelle Watson and Chris Boyette, CNN Police are looking for the suspect who left one person dead and 7 others injured during an early Sunday morning shooting in Omaha, Nebraska. Officers responded to the shooting around 4 a.m. and “located two victims with apparent gunshot wounds,” the Omaha Police department said in a news

By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN At least 16 junior varsity hockey players from Illinois were injured Saturday night in Warsaw, Indiana after an allegedly intoxicated semi-truck driver swerved into the team’s bus, knocking it onto its side. Three of the injured high school students, who attend St. Ignatius College Prep, underwent surgery and

By Christina Maxouris, CNN. Photographs by Erica Lee, CNN Miguel Romero proudly calls himself a “Florida boy.” He loves the Sunshine State’s warm weather. He’s lived in the same neighborhood in Lee County, along Florida’s southwestern coast, for most of his life. It’s where he got his first job, at a Wendy’s, when he was

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Throughout its history, the US has adopted policies that threatened to wipe out Native American tribes and their cultures — or as one Army officer put it, “kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” A lawsuit now before the Supreme Court, tribal nations argue, has the potential to do

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Today is World Kindness Day. Do with that information what you will. Sure, it’s just another made-up day, but unlike candy corn or cilantro, kindness is a far less divisive subject. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. The weekend that was • Democrats will keep