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October 16, 2026 
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Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
- Father intervened in Ore. school shooting
- White House press secretary is ousted
- Plus, remembering Bruiser the elk
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| Outside of Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., today. Jordan Gale for The New York Times |
Bystander who killed school shooter is a father of 2 students
The man who cut short a deadly rampage at an Oregon elementary school by fatally shooting the 16-year-old attacker was a father of two girls inside the school, his family confirmed today. The father, Kaylub Giamanco, happened to be on his lunch break near the school when the shooting started.
Giamanco entered the school and killed the assailant, who was armed with a shotgun registered to his mother, officials said. Before Giamanco’s intervention, the teenage suspect had blasted through locked doors and killed a teacher and three children, ages 5, 8 and 11. A 7-year-old and another teacher were also critically injured. The gunman still had 44 more rounds of ammunition on him when he was shot dead, police said.
The authorities also commended a teacher who they said tackled the shooter and “helped prevent more bloodshed.” The 5-year-old victim was identified as Rhoam Summer. His grandfather described him as “very bright and very mischievous and very fun-loving.”
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| Katie Zacharia during her first briefing at the White House on Tuesday. Kenny Holston/The New York Times |
The White House press secretary is out after five days
Katie Zacharia, who took over as President Trump’s press secretary less than a week ago, was fired today. The president told reporters that he had urged her to “reconsider” the job, but that she might continue to work for him “in maybe a more pleasant form.”
Zacharia had gotten off to a bumpy start with her first (and ultimately final) press briefing earlier this week. She took just three questions and largely read off a script, a performance some White House officials considered a disaster. Then, she faced an onslaught of headlines about whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer — the president called her “an attorney” — despite failing her bar exam.
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| The New York Times |
The U.S. deficit nears $2 trillion
The Treasury Department released new budget data today, showing that the gap between what the government spends and what it collects widened significantly during the first full fiscal year of Trump’s second term. The U.S. budget deficit is now nearly $2 trillion, its highest level since the pandemic.
The shortfall stems from increased military spending, interest payments on the debt, Social Security benefits and falling corporate tax receipts as a result of last year’s tax cut package. The costs have dwarfed the cuts Trump has made to federal spending.
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| The New York Times |
The leap second is canceled
Every few years since 1972, global timekeepers — the systems that make sure your iPhone clock never needs adjusting — have had to reset their clocks by a single second. Leap seconds, as they are called, are like leap years, only much shorter and much less predictable. They were designed to account for irregularities in how fast Earth rotates, and they’re a hassle.
Now, after a vote today by the international authority on timekeeping, they are being eliminated. Instead, we will wait until an entire hour is needed to bring us back into synchronization with the planet’s spin. It’s unclear how long that will take; we might not need a leap hour for hundreds or even thousands of years.
More top news
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| Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan on Thursday. Zbigniew Bzdak for The New York Times |
Politics
Other Big Stories
- Middle East: Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians in the West Bank, injuring a Washington Post journalist and others.
- Ukraine: Russia is trying to force Kyiv to capitulate by making the capital unlivable. Reporting, charts and photos show what life is like there now.
- Japan: In a nod to the share of household tasks that fall to Japanese women, the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, described her hours of chores to parliament.
- Travel: A lawsuit accused Expedia of breaking federal antitrust laws and forcing millions of customers to overspend on hotel stays by as much as 30 percent.
- Celebrity: Sean Combs, who was sentenced last year to more than four years for prostitution-related offenses, was transferred to a federal prison in central Pennsylvania.
- A.I.: Terence Tao, one of the world’s great mathematicians, is on a “war footing” over artificial intelligence. In an interview, he explained why.
- Archaeology: Researchers claimed to have found the world’s oldest shipwreck.
- Your pick: The most clicked link in yesterday’s edition of The Evening was a story about the oldest restaurant in London.
- Robots: More American workers are strapping cameras to their bodies to help train robots. Click the video below to see how it works.
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| Alessandro Lucioni; Caitlin Ochs/Reuters; Filippo Fior; Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times |
The runway looks that inspired us this season
Few people can afford the clothes that stream down the runways each season. But there are other reasons to pay attention. The best looks surprise us, impress us with their craftsmanship, capture the cultural moment, or perhaps inspire us to try something new with our own wardrobe.
From the latest season of runway shows, our fashion writers and editors picked the outfits that stood out most.
For more: The fashion world is cozying up to Big Tech.
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| The Apartment Gallery opened in Ridgewood, Queens. Elias Williams for The New York Times |
When gallery space is too expensive …
To explore some of New York City’s most intimate art exhibits, you need to step inside third-floor walk-ups, two-bedrooom lofts and subterranean studios. Many of the artists live in the apartments as well, making it a much more affordable way to show off their work.
Such spaces are part of an eclectic history that stretches back to the birth of modern art in New York. During the postwar era, art dealers organized exhibitions of now-classic modernists inside Upper East Side townhouses where the dealers and their families lived. Take a look inside.
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| Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times |
Dinner table topics
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| Linda Xiao for The New York Times |
Try out this exciting take on a fried egg that the internet loves.
Watch a brilliant baritone
