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Month: February 2026

A police vehicle is parked in front of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School where a mass shooting took place on Tuesday.

Guns and mental health struggles: What the apparent online footprint of the Canada school shooter tells us

By Lex Harvey, Sandi Sidhu, Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge mass shooting posted about guns and hunting on her YouTube channel and appeared to have written about her struggles with mental health online, according to social media posts. Canadian police named 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as the shooter who

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A Canadian flag is lowered to half-staff at the Guy-Favreau Complex in Montreal

Suspected shooter named as community gathers to grieve after Canada’s worst school shooting in decades. Here’s what we know

By Lex Harvey, Max Saltman, Caitlin Danaher, Hira Humayun, Billy Stockwell, Christian Edwards, Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The tiny Canadian mountain town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, suffered one of the country’s worst school shootings in recent history on Tuesday, when an 18-year-old woman killed at least eight people and wounded dozens. Police say

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before he and first lady Melania Trump leave the White House on Friday.

Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump hadn’t let go. He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had condemned the video depicting the Obamas as apes, questioning the lawmakers’ loyalty and vowing consequences, sources familiar

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a cabinet meeting at the White House on January 29

Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military and sponsoring “troublesome partnerships with foreign adversaries.”

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