By Max Saltman, Caitlin Danaher, Hira Humayun, Billy Stockwell, Lex Harvey, Christian Edwards, Catherine Nicholls, CNN

(CNN) — The tiny mountain town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, witnessed one of the worst school shootings in recent Canadian history on Tuesday. Authorities say that an 18-year-old female killed at least eight people, including two family members, and injured at least 25 others in two separate incidents at a residence and a secondary school.

Flags across Canada were lowered to half-staff on Wednesday, and Prime Minister Mark Carney and other national political figures paid their respects to the victims in Parliament with speeches and a moment of silence. British Columbia’s Legislature has postponed a key speech to lawmakers and declared Thursday a day of mourning.

Here’s what we know about the shooting, the victims, the alleged shooter and the ongoing investigation.

How did the shooting unfold?

On Wednesday, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said that they believe the shooter initially killed her mother and step-brother in a residence in Tumbler Ridge before moving to the school and continuing the spree.

Police received a report at 1:20 p.m. local time (4:20 p.m. ET) Tuesday of an active school shooter at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Within minutes, officers were on the scene.

At around 1:30 p.m., alarms began to sound in the school, announcing a lockdown and ordering that classroom doors be closed. A student said he and his classmates used tables to barricade themselves in.

Meanwhile, a young female relative at the Tumbler Ridge home of the suspected shooter alerted neighbors to the attack, who then raised the alarm, McDonald told a news conference Wednesday.

Police did not receive a call from the neighbor to attend the home until 1:47 p.m. Pacific time, around 17 minutes after RCMP first received reports of an active shooter at the school.

The RCMP soon issued a “shelter in place” warning, telling Tumbler Ridge residents to lock their doors and stay inside until further instruction. The RCMP said the alleged shooter was found dead in the school. McDonald told reporters Wednesday that when police entered the school, they found one dead victim in a stairwell, and others in the library.

At 5:45 p.m., police called off the emergency alert, saying they did not believe there were any outstanding suspects “or ongoing threat to the public.” Police said the alleged shooter was found “deceased with what appears to be a self-inflicted injury.” Around 25 others were wounded, they said.

Who are the victims?

The deceased victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting include a teacher, several students, and two relatives of the suspected shooter, police said Wednesday.

“The deceased victims from the school include an adult female educator, three female students and two male students,” said McDonald.

Later in the press conference, Sergeant Vanessa Munn said the victims included “three 12-year-old female students, two male students, ages 12 and 13” – correcting earlier ages quoted by McDonald.

“Two additional victims, an adult female and a male youth were located deceased in the local residence,” McDonald said, adding that those two additional victims were the suspect’s

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - We are clearing out from the quick moving storm that dropped over an inch of rain in some areas locally including the Santa Ynez Valley and Ventura County.

Clouds will continue to exit our area Thursday with brief offshore winds as we warm up into the high 60s and low 70s Friday with mostly sunny skies.

Saturday will be a dry but cloudy Valentine's Day in the mid 60s.

Sunday a large storm arrives producing rain through Tuesday or Wednesday. 2-4 inches along the coast and 3-6 inland remains the forecast for this storm. Cold temperatures, strong winds, flooding concerns, thunderstorms and mountain snow will be factors of this large system.

Snowfall will be possible as low as 3 or 4 thousand feet next week. Multiple feet of snow is possible for elevations above 6000ft California.

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By Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN

(CNN) — If you watched the Super Bowl, you probably saw commercials featuring NFL players telling America to “relax your tight end.”

The campaign from drugmaker Novartis — called “Relax, It’s a Blood Test” — featured tight ends Rob Gronkowski and George Kittle and Super Bowl-winning coach Bruce Arians, who’s a prostate cancer survivor.

Amid the other ads, it did something we struggle to do in medicine: Get men to pay attention to prostate cancer screening.

The real message was targeting men’s fear. A lot of men avoid prostate cancer screening because they assume it automatically means a rectal exam. Relax, all these tough football players said — for many men, screening starts with a simple blood test and a conversation.

What does ‘relax your tight end’ actually mean?

It means stop letting fear of the exam keep you from getting checked out for a treatable cancer.

The first step for many men is a PSA test, a blood test that measures prostate-specific antigen. A digital rectal exam, or DRE (when a doctor checks the prostate through the rectum), can sometimes add information, especially if someone has symptoms, a concerning PSA pattern, or other risk factors. But that’s usually not how screening starts.

What is the PSA test?

The commercial told you that screening starts with a simple blood test. That’s true — but here’s what that blood test actually measures and why one number doesn’t tell the whole story.

PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen, a protein your prostate makes. A lab result above 4 is typically flagged as abnormal, but it’s not a magic cutoff. A PSA below 4 can still be concerning if it’s rising quickly over time, and a result above 4 does not always mean cancer. That’s why doctors don’t just look at a snapshot — they look at trends over time and the context around it.

Benign conditions like an enlarged prostate, prostatitis (inflammation), recent ejaculation, vigorous exercise or even a long bike ride can temporarily push your PSA up. So before you panic at a number, know this: PSA is a starting point but not a diagnosis.

Here’s the flip side that gets less attention: Not all prostate cancers cause elevated PSA levels. Some aggressive cancers can show up with a number that looks “normal.” That’s why screening is never just about one lab value. It’s about the full clinical picture.

What to know before a blood test

Since so many things can temporarily skew your PSA, here’s the practical part people usually don’t hear: Try to avoid ejaculation for about 24 to 48 hours before the test. Don’t schedule your PSA the morning after a long bike ride or intense workout or sex. And if you have urinary burning, fever or pelvic discomfort or if you think you might have a urinary tract infection or prostatitis, talk to your doctor first. Testing in the middle of inflammation can lead to a number that creates stress without adding clarity.

What’s the confusion around PSA screening?

Part of why that commercial’s message lands is because men (and doctors) have gotten mixed signals for years.

The PSA test isn’t controversial because it’s a bad blood test; it’s controversial because of what can happen after the result. Over the past decade, screening guidelines have swung from recommending routine screening to advising against it to landing somewhere in between, and major organizations still don’t all say it the same way.

Even after more than a decade in practice, I still find the guidelines hard to keep straight. That’s why I focus less on which organization said what and more on the patient in front of me: their risk factors, their history and what they’d actually do with the information.

Did the commercial get you pl

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Los aficionados puertorriqueños que esperaban con ansias ver a Lionel Messi y a su Inter Miami tendrán que esperar un poco más. El delantero argentino confirmó en sus redes sociales que, a raíz de un golpe sufrido en el último amistoso de las Garzas en Ecuador (donde debió ser reemplazado), “la gente de la organización y el club decidió suspenderlo”, según sus propias palabras.

El Inter Miami tenía pautado jugar su último amistoso de pretemporada este viernes en la isla, enfrentando a Independiente del Valle de Ecuador en el estadio Juan Ramón Loubriel de Bayamón. Sin embargo, la molestia física de Messi alteró los planes.

Se trataba del cierre de una larga gira (llamada “Champions Tour”) que llevó a los flamantes campeones de la MLS a visitar Lima, Perú; Medellín, Colombia; y Guayaquil, Ecuador. Precisamente en este último partido, ante el Barcelona SC de ese país, fue que el astro rosarino sufrió una “distensión muscular en el isquiotibial izquierdo”, según reza el parte médico que publicó el Inter Miami este miércoles, cuando confirmó que Messi no formaría parte de la práctica con sus compañeros.

El club de Florida evitó mencionar plazos de recuperación, pero, sin este amistoso, el Jugador Más Valioso (MVP, por sus siglas en inglés) de las últimas dos temporadas del fútbol estadounidense tendrá exactamente 10 días para evolucionar favorablemente y estar disponible cuando su equipo debute en el torneo de la MLS 2026 el 21 de febrero.

Messi publicó un video en sus redes sociales dirigido “a la gente de Puerto Rico, tanto a quienes iban a ir al entrenamiento como al partido”, donde aclaraba los motivos de la suspensión y manifestaba su deseo de ir pronto a jugar a la isla.

La buena noticia es que esto se confirmó casi de inmediato. El Inter Miami anunció que logró reprogramar la fecha del amistoso para el 26 de febrero, frente al mismo rival y en el mismo estadio.

“Somos conscientes de la expectativa y las ganas que tienen de ver un partido de Inter Miami, y va a ser muy lindo poder hacerlo pronto”, dijo en otro mensaje el capitán de la selección argentina.

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The glitz and glam of Hollywood captures the attention of Americans starting from an early age. Beyond celebrities’ Instagram Stories and red carpet poses, there are actors out there paying their dues and honing their craft in pursuit of a sustainable career or a fulfilling sideline. Submitting to casting calls is a big part of that journey.

Whether you’re a working actor or an aspiring one, you might be curious to know which movies and TV shows are casting roles near you. Backstage compiled a list of projects casting right now across the U.S., and which roles they’re looking to fill.

‘The Gilded Age,’ Season 4

– Project type: scripted show
– Roles:
— People to Portray Footmen (Non SAG AFTRA Covered) (background / extra, male, 18-25)
– Roles pay up to: $187
– Casting locations: New York City, NY
– Learn more about the scripted show here

‘The Ones We Leave Behind’

– Project type: feature film
– Roles:
— Sam (lead, male, 10-15)
– Roles pay up to: $20,000
– Casting locations: Worldwide
– Learn more about the feature film here