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By Michelle Krupa, Andi Babineau, CNN Provo, Utah (CNN) — A ruling on the trial date for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk will come next month, a Utah judge declared Friday. Judge Tony Graf said he had intended to issue his ruling Friday but wanted additional time to analyze new “data

By Ryan Young, Caroll Alvarado, Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi police officer and interim police chief have resigned, officials said Friday — just days after the state said the officer’s actions were justified in a June shooting that resulted in the death of a 1-year-old boy and led to widespread outrage. The incident

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The good Samaritan who killed a gunman after three students and a teacher were fatally shot at an elementary school recalled his final, desperate choice to Oregon Public Broadcasting: “I’m sorry, I have to go in. People are going to die.” “I just was in full panic, like, ‘No,

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — After spending decades in prison for a gruesome murder, Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years. But something went wrong. The 50-year-old survived two ostensibly lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital, spent more than a week in the hospital and returned

By Rachel Clarke, Shimon Prokupecz, Meridith Edwards, Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Omaha, Nebraska (CNN) — California has banned them. Army experts trying them experienced so much pain they were “apprehensive” about further tests and were swapped for new personnel. In Nebraska, mothers are fighting to get the same electric shock gloves out of schools. The devices

By Diego Mendoza Diaz, Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The Battle of Iwo Jima monument in Quantico, Virginia, has suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage after a man beheaded one of the statues Wednesday evening, police said. Officers responding to a report of destruction of property at Marine Corps Base Quantico around 10:31

By Taylor Galgano, CNN (CNN) — “Mom, there’s a shooter,” Michelle’s fifth grader said through the phone. Something about her son’s serious tone was familiar. “If you’ve ever gotten a call that a loved one passed away … that kind of tone,” Michelle explained. She knew that tone. The 40-year-old mother would later compare it

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — At a town hall event in Caro, Michigan, over the weekend, a man in the audience asked Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, “Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?” It was “a simple question,” the man insisted. El-Sayed immediately recognized it as something more. “Sure. Yeah, absolutely,” he replied, then

CNN By Rebekah Riess, Aidan Johnstone, Lauren Mascarenhas, Aidan Johnstone (CNN) – The chemical release in Toledo was due to an “error that occurred when the material was being transferred,” according to Bryant Somerville, a spokesperson for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA confirmed the released chemical, which came from a 5,500-gallon tank, is

By Rebekah Riess, Aidan Johnstone, Lauren Mascarenhas, Aidan Johnstone (CNN) – The chemical release in Toledo was due to an “error that occurred when the material was being transferred,” according to Bryant Somerville, a spokesperson for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA confirmed the released chemical, which came from a 5,500-gallon tank, is glycidyl

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 Karina Tsui, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Two women have alleged this month they were sexually assaulted at different fraternity homes near the University of Chicago campus, adding to a string of allegations roiling the nation’s universities as they face a reckoning over sexual assault in their communities. A woman recently reported she was

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 Danya Gainor, Rebekah Reiss, CNN (CNN) — Memphis leaders rejected a contentious 18-month pause on new data center development in the city Tuesday, just two weeks after a meeting on the issue led to protests, calls to police and a fist fight at City Hall. The directive would have placed a temporary pause on

By Jeff Winter, Kara Scannell, Jason Carroll, CNN (CNN) — A woman who sued Cornell University last month over an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house in 2024 said she felt “unsupported and disbelieved” by Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff shortly after she reported her alleged sexual assault, according to a letter she wrote to

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 Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — It’s illegal in Oregon for anyone under 18 to possess a firearm, with a few exceptions. So how exactly did the 16-year-old who carried out a school shooting in Bend, Oregon, last week get access to a gun and ammunition? That question has yet to be answered and is

By Emma Tucker, Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — What began as a soccer game on a sunny Saturday in Wichita, Kansas, for children whose loved ones watched on the sidelines ended in tragedy when a pickup truck sped onto the field, killing a 6-year-old boy and a man and injuring 10 others. The truck had

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 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