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Celebs including Zoƫ Kravitz (center) and Kylie Jenner (in the pink wig) sit front-row at a Vera Wang runway show in 2016.

Why people in 2026 are hung up on 2016

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Measles was eradicated in the Americas, BeyoncĆ© made ā€œLemonadeā€ and liberal hopes were high for the first woman president. Voters were encouraged to PokĆ©mon Go to the polls. Remember 2016? A decade on, celebrities and laypeople are sharing fond memories from 2016, the era of face ā€œbakingā€ and #ImWithHer,

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Beth Israel Congregation President Zach Shemper stands for a portrait in front of the synagogue's closed entrance on Tuesday

They saw Mississippi’s largest synagogue bombed by the KKK in 1967. Seeing it now destroyed by arson feels like ā€˜deja vu’

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Clay Crystal was sitting on his front porch in Jackson, Mississippi, as a child in 1967 when he heard the thunderous sound of an explosion echo through his neighborhood. ā€œI had no idea what it was,ā€ said Crystal, who was 13 at the time. He’d later learn from

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A painting depicting Renee Nicole Good at a makeshift memorial in Minneapolis

911 transcripts, incident reports and videos show how an ICE agent shot a mother of 3 at ā€˜point blank range’

By Zoe Sottile, Alisha Ebrahimji, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Emergency call logs and reports detailing last week’s fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer reveal a greater sense of the organizational chaos and heightened emotion surrounding her final moments. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ā€œjust shot a lady,ā€ one 911 caller

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Tyler Robinson speaks with his attorneys before a hearing in Provo

Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson appears in court as defense pushes to disqualify prosecutors from the case

CNN By Andi Babineau, Nick Watt, CNN Provo, Utah (CNN) — Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, appeared in a Utah court Friday afternoon as his attorneys pushed for prosecutors to be pulled from the case over what they allege is a conflict of interest. Robinson’s defense attorneys are arguing the

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A makeshift memorial honors Renee Good

911 transcripts and an incident report reveal where Renee Good was shot and how her community faced her killing in real time

By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — After Renee Good was shot last week by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, the mother of three was ā€œunresponsive, not breathing, with inconsistent, irregular, thready pulse activity,ā€ an incident report from the city’s fire department says. ā€œI saw … an ICE officer fire two shots through her windshield

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Federal immigration officers confront protesters outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Thursday.

Judge puts limits on federal agents in Minnesota, as protests cool with the weather

Amanda Musa, Holly Yan, Taylor Romine, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — As temperatures plummet in Minnesota, the struggle between the Trump administration and opponents of Operation Metro surge are playing out indoors: A judge has ruled federal agents can’t retaliate against peaceful protesters or stop people in their cars if they aren’t obstructing operations. And

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Tyler Robinson speaks with his attorneys before a hearing in Provo

Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson appears in court as defense pushes to disqualify prosecutors from the case

By Andi Babineau, Nick Watt, CNN Provo, Utah (CNN) — Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, appeared in a Utah court Friday afternoon as his attorneys pushed for prosecutors to be pulled from the case over what they allege is a conflict of interest. Robinson’s defense attorneys are arguing the entire

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A protesting community member attempts to protect themselves as federal agents fire munitions and pepper balls

Federal agent shoots a man officials say assaulted an officer, sparking new protests in Minneapolis

CNN By Danya Gainor, Karina Tsui, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — For the second time in a week, a shooting involving an immigration agent sparked heated clashes in Minnesota – prompting the president to threaten to use the Insurrection Act. According to the Department of Homeland Security, federal agents were conducting a ā€œtargeted traffic stopā€

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A protesting community member attempts to protect themselves as federal agents fire munitions and pepper balls

Federal agent shoots a man officials say assaulted an officer, sparking new protests in Minneapolis

By Danya Gainor, Karina Tsui, Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — For the second time in a week, a shooting involving an immigration agent sparked heated clashes in Minnesota – prompting the president to threaten to use the Insurrection Act. According to the Department of Homeland Security, federal agents were conducting a ā€œtargeted traffic stopā€ when

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ā€œAgitator" didn’t always have a negative connotation.

Word of the Week: Who gets called an ā€˜agitator’?

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — As Americans across the country demonstrate their opposition to Donald Trump’s immigration offensive, the president and his administration aren’t classifying them as protesters. Instead, they’re calling them ā€œagitators.ā€ In the words of the Trump administration, Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent while protesting enforcement actions in

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An observer is detained after ICE agents made arrests on January 13

Minnesota and Illinois invoke the 10th Amendment in lawsuits to block federal agents in their cities. Here’s why that matters

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Minnesota and Illinois filed lawsuits within hours of each other Monday seeking to curb the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown in their states. Although the lawsuits are separate and nuanced, both states cited the 10th Amendment to back their claim that the surge of Immigration and Customs

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