Teen suspect dead after Oregon school shooting and debunking an election conspiracy theory: Morning Rundown - BERITAJA

Teen suspect dead after Oregon school shooting and debunking an election conspiracy theory: Morning Rundown - BERITAJA

Three children and a coach are dormant aft a schoolhouse shooting successful Oregon. Election officials are debunking a years-old conspiracy theory. And could different liking complaint hike beryllium coming?

Here’s what to cognize today.

Three children and 1 coach killed successful Oregon schoolhouse shooting

Three children and a coach were killed yesterday day successful a shooting astatine an simple schoolhouse successful Bend, Oregon. The children were ages 5, 8 and 11.

The deceased suspect, whom officials identified arsenic a 16-year-old Bend resident, forced introduction into Silver Rail Elementary School by firing done the locked doors, constabulary said.

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Deschutes County dispatch received a telephone astatine 12:59 p.m. section clip from a personification successful a conveyance saying they were being “shot astatine aggregate times by a personification pinch a agelong gun,” constabulary said. Then, “dozens” of calls reported a shooter astatine the K-5 school.

Officers arrived wrong 3 minutes and learned the fishy had been fatally changeable by a organization personnel who pursued him into the school, authorities said.

Police did not opportunity whether the fishy had connections to the school, aliases really he sewage entree to the weapon. In Oregon, minors could legally person definite firearms if they person parental consent.

Here’s what other we know.

Election officials debunk a persistent mendacious declare about canvass workers and ballots

Early Voting In California Ahead Of Midterm Election
A canvass worker assists a elector during early voting up of the midterm predetermination wrong City Hall successful San Francisco connected Oct. 8, 2026.David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty

Election officials nationwide are debunking a years-old conspiracy mentation that canvass workers will constitute connected your ballot successful bid to disqualify it. The declare is baseless, but has circulated online.

“Election workers constitute connected ballots for different reasons arsenic required by law. This successful nary measurement affects whether your ballot will beryllium counted,” the State Board of Elections successful North Carolina said.

In immoderate states, officials will people ballots pinch initials signifying an predetermination judge reviewed the ballot aliases a counting tally. In others, they don’t touch them astatine all. Regardless, voters are the ones filling retired the ballots.

Tim Bobanic, a supervisor of elections successful Florida, said it’s not clear why this peculiar conspiracy has specified lasting power.

“I’m not wholly convinced that this isn’t extracurricular groups, overseas entities” trying to “sow distrust,” he said.

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Early voting is underway, pinch much than 6 cardinal mail-in and early in-person votes already formed nationally. Follow the latest numbers, including information breakdowns by statement and tallies successful states pinch competitory Senate battlegrounds.

Plus, way the battle for Congress and Trump’s support rating.

More predetermination news:

  • Maine Senate candidates Troy Jackson and Susan Collins had their fourth and last debate, pinch Trump looming ample complete the race.
  • Federal rule enforcement is investigating aft suspicious substances were sent to much than a twelve predetermination offices crossed the country.

Kevin Warsh says Fed is focused connected taming prices, but gives nary hint about adjacent complaint hike

Kevin Warsh
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh speaks astatine Federal Reserve Headquarters connected Sept. 16, 2026.Andrew Harnik / Getty file

Will the Federal Reserve raise liking rates again? Chairman Kevin Warsh offered fewer clues.

In a reside astatine the yearly gathering of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Warsh said the U.S. system has “broadly” moved successful the guidance that the Fed expected during its past gathering successful September, erstwhile it raised rates for the first clip since 2023.

“We made very clear we’d present value stability,” Warsh said, a awesome of his attraction connected ostentation and that different liking complaint hike could beryllium connected the horizon. But, he stuck to a acquainted reside and refused to springiness immoderate clear hint about really soon that mightiness come.

Warsh besides projected optimism about AI, predicting that “it will make economies and countries that put it to bully usage much productive.”

More connected his comments.

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  • A teenage fishy accused of planning a wide shooting astatine a Hindu temple successful Chicago told co-workers he “couldn’t hold to termination Indians,” prosecutors say.
  • Actor Danny Trejo responded to criticism for being successful what immoderate person called a pro-ICE movie backed by governmental commentator Ben Shapiro’s blimpish media company.
  • Beritaja obtained audio of a heated meeting betwixt Cornell module and the university’s president complete the handling of the alleged intersexual battle case.

Staff Pick: Hollywood is giving lit nerds a logic to revisit the classics

Justine Goode/Beritaja; Netflix/Warner Bros

Book-to-screen adaptations are not a caller conception successful Hollywood. But this year, what stood retired to maine was that the classics were becoming talking points connected my societal media feeds. From Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” released successful February, to Zoe Kazan’s “East of Eden” series, which dropped connected Netflix this month, group are engaging pinch book-to-screen projects successful a measurement that’s helping elevate them to taste notoriety.

Social media users are documenting their journeys done the classics, from first-time sounds inspired by surface adaptations to annotated rereads up of their premieres. Others are posting heavy dives comparing the books pinch their on-screen counterparts, fueling chat complete what Hollywood gets correct — and wrong. Some moreover connection recommendations to group who want to publication arsenic they watch.

It’s a refreshing trend, fixed that earlier this twelvemonth The Atlantic, which counts literate icon Ralph Waldo Emerson arsenic a co-founder, declared “The End of Reading Is Here” and influencers specified arsenic Alix Earle precocious boasted about “never” reference a book. I talked to Kazan, character Florence Pugh, who plays Cathy successful “East of Eden,” and Kiska Higgs, the president of accumulation and acquisitions astatine Focus Features about why they deliberation audiences proceed to resonate pinch Hollywood projects that are pulled from bookshelves.

— Saba Hamedy, civilization and trends editor

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