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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look back at the events of 2026. Notable US Events January 3 – President Donald Trump announces that the US carried out a “large scale strike against Venezuela” and that President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, have been captured and removed from the

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Rhoam Summer, the 5-year-old who was among the four victims fatally shot at an Oregon elementary school, is the youngest person ever killed in a deliberate mass attack at a US school, according to his family’s attorney and experts who track school shootings. The littlest victim, his two classmates

By Eduardo Cuevas, Alaa Elassar, John Miller, Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Students in this Oregon community won’t be returning to classes on Monday as they continue to mourn three classmates and a teacher killed in the United States’ latest school shooting, the motive of which is still unknown. Officials in Bend, Oregon, are investigating

By Julianna Bragg, Celina Tebor, Sarah Dewberry, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — A former Long Beach city employee was injured during an incident involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday, officials said, with an unmarked SUV driving the wrong way down a one-way street before the scene escalated, according to surveillance footage and witnesses. Ricardo

By Rob Picheta, CNN | Photographs by Heather Ainsworth Ithaca, New York (CNN) — Worlds are colliding at Cornell. On the football field, the men’s varsity team is practicing for its homecoming game, the flagship event of their season. Players are fine-tuning routes and dapping each other up after a well-executed play. The school mascot

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The three children and a teacher shot to death at Silver Rail Elementary School in central Oregon were in a classroom dedicated to students with special needs – an environment that’s supposed to be nurturing, safe and supportive. As is the case with mass shootings, the dead and wounded

By Eduardo Cuevas, CNN (CNN) — It began with tingling and numbness in the graduate student’s fingertips and weakness in his legs. As summer ended, it got worse, as the numbness spread across his left arm and all his fingertips. But after weeks and visits to the University of Wyoming student health clinic, he told

By Brittany Shammas, CNN (CNN) — Inside a nondescript brick house overlooking West Virginia University’s picturesque campus, Nolan Burch stood with his fellow pledges, laughing and joking around as he held a necktie to his eyes. The time had come for the Gamma Phi chapter of Kappa Sigma’s “Big/Little ceremony” – the final rite in

By Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — It looked like a typical October evening at Six Flags Over Georgia. The sinking sun cast a golden light over families standing in line for haunted houses and rides. Children shouted, amped up on sugar and adrenaline, while orange leaves crunched under their feet. Yet behind the amusement park’s

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — On a sunny Oregon fall morning, parents dressed their children up and sent them to Silver Rail Elementary School for picture day. It’s the kind of picture parents return to years later, marveling at how small their children once were and how their smiles looked before their faces changed.

By Nicki Brown, Dianne Gallagher, Devon M. Sayers, CNN Lexington, South Carolina (CNN) — The judge overseeing Alex Murdaugh’s highly anticipated retrial for the murders of his wife and son insisted the case would proceed to trial in six months and chastised the parties for squabbling over evidence during a two-hour hearing Friday. “I’m gonna

By Taylor Galgano, Bill Kirkos, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Mia Lara’s first fraternity party ended with her chasing the man, who she believes sexually assaulted her friend, through the streets of Chicago. The alleged sexual assault was reported last weekend at a fraternity house and is under investigation by the University of Chicago and the

CNN By Emma Tucker, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — Three children and one adult were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to preliminary information from a law enforcement source. The shooter was a 16-year-old male, according to multiple law enforcement sources. The shooter had already been shot