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In one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, a gunman opened fire Friday in a Connecticut elementary school, killing 26 people, 20 of them children, police said.

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The principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of the shooting, had recently issued guidelines concerning school safely. We take a broad look school safety and how this most recent tragedy might changes the way we secure our schools.

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For survivors of past mass killings, the shooting Friday stirred difficult memories.

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They'd done drills before. But Janet Vollmer's kindergarten class knew something was up -- and she knew she couldn't show any panic herself, even with a gunman on the loose inside her Connecticut elementary school.

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INTERNATIONAL

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The United States gave the go-ahead Friday to deploy Patriot anti-ballistic missiles to Turkey along with enough troops to operate them as the heavily embattled government in neighboring Syria again vehemently denied firing ballistic missiles at rebels.

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U.S. troops will be in direct position for the first time to take action against the government of Syrian President Bashr al-Assad with the deployment of 400 American forces and two Patriot missile batteries in Turkey, possibly as soon as mid-January.

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Maurice Herzog, a celebrated French mountaineer who was the first person to reach the top of an 8,000-meter peak, died early Friday in France, the French presidential palace announced. He was 93.

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Bayern Munich's hopes of taking a record lead into the Bundesliga's winter break were dented by a 1-1 draw at home to Borussia Monchengladbach on Friday.

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Big-spending English club Manchester City moved a step closer to meeting European football's financial fairplay requirements on Friday despite posting a loss of almost $160 million for last season.

U.S.A.

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Dressed in black fatigues and a military vest, a heavily armed man walked into a Connecticut elementary school Friday and opened fire, shattering the quiet of this southern New England town and leaving the nation reeling at the number of young lives lost.

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This morning, a group of people gathered around a table in a meeting room at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The topic was a struggling second-grader. Attendees included the mother of the child, the principal, the vice principal and the school psychologist. It was about 9:30. "Pop. Pop. Pop." That's what the mother of the second-grader said it sounded like. The sound was coming from the hall.

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The sound of gunfire, confusion, a lockdown and then an evacuation. Witnesses, students and parents told frightening stories Friday about a school shooting that police say left six adults and 20 children dead.

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Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung just entered a Ph.D. program. She led a school district's strategic planning panel. She won a national school grant. She could be "a tough lady in the right sort of sense," a friend said. Among it all, she found time to smile and exuded memorable enthusiasm. The longtime educator's career seemed to be peaking when she became principal two years ago of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which has 525 pupils from kindergarten to fourth grade. On Friday, Hochsprung, 47, was fatally shot inside her school in a massacre that killed five other adults and 20 students.

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Principal Dawn Hochsprung, killed in Friday's shooting at her Connecticut elementary school, recently installed a new security system to ensure student safety.

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At home and at work, there was no doubting Mary Sherlach's success. Professionally, she'd worked in three Connecticut school systems before settling in as school psychologist at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, writing on her website that "I truly enjoy working with the SHS staff, parents and children." Personally, she'd been married to her husband for more than three decades and, together, they were "proud parents" of two daughters in their late 20s. It all ended in an instant Friday morning, when, authorities say, 20-year-old Adam Lanza went into Sherlach's school and killed her and 25 others, including 20 young students.

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School shootings such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, may have long-lasting consequences, but with proper support, many children are able to move on, experts say. Children need to be with their families as quickly as possible after exposure to such horrific events, said Steven Marans, director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence/Childhood Violent Trauma Center at Yale University's Child Study Center.

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Here is a list of some violent incidents at U.S. schools over the last 20 years:

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Mass shootings in a mall, a movie theater and now in an elementary school full of young kids. Is there any place in America that is safe anymore?

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Wiping away tears and choking up, President Barack Obama mourned the "beautiful little kids" slain Friday in a shooting massacre at a Connecticut school and called for preventing similar tragedies "regardless of the politics." It was a rare emotional display by Obama, known more for stoicism in such situations, and he referred to other recent U.S. mass shootings in calling for a national response.

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In the wake of Friday's school shooting in Connecticut that killed nearly 30 people, most of them children, the White House said President Barack Obama will consider a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban in his second term. "It does remain a commitment of his," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters about the Clinton-era ban that expired in 2004.

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From the first moments after Friday's massacre, religious leaders were among the first people to whom worried and grieving families turned for help.

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Record prize money and an extra rest day for finalists -- U.S. Open tennis chiefs have taken note of player complaints and made significant changes for 2013. The tournament's women's final will now be held on a Sunday and the men's title match on a Monday, while the total prize purse will increase by $4 million.

POLITICS

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In what now seems like a fairy tale scenario, Friday was supposed to conclude the 112th Congress, with members heading home for holiday cheer with their loved ones.

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With just over two weeks for the White House and congressional Republicans to reach common ground on the nation's budget before the U.S. economy risks tipping over the so-called fiscal cliff, a group aimed at putting the U.S. on a better economic course released its first television ad highlighting a unified call to tame the nation's growing debt.

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Now that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration for secretary of state, her supporters are criticizing those who brought her down as well as President Barack Obama, a long-time friend, who they say left her twisting in the wind.

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Get ready Massachusetts: Another special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat may be coming your way. And jockeying is already underway among potential candidates, even before it's official there will actually be vacant seat and an election.

MONEY

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U.S. stocks ended lower Friday as concerns about the fiscal cliff continue to eclipse signs of improvement in the global economy.

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If you were looking forward to buying one of those C-X75 hybrid supercars Jaguar had planned to produce, we have bad news for you. The British luxury car maker, has changed its mind and says it will not build it after all.

FEATURES AND COMMENTARY

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When people complain about the nearly three-hour length of the first installment of "The Hobbit" film trilogy because the source book is a slim 300 pages, they're forgetting that much of the story isn't from "The Hobbit" itself -- but expanded from the appendices to "The Lord of the Rings."

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In case Tom Cruise has been too busy to notice what he's been missing, Fitness magazine has gladly brought it to attention. The healthy lifestyle publication has called the physique of Cruise's ex-wife Katie Holmes one of the best celebrity bodies of the year.

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Along with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have one of the most enduring - and adorable - bromances in Hollywood. But Damon's "Promised Land" screenwriting partner, John Krasinski, seems to be creeping in on that action. When CNN spoke with "The Office" actor about working with Damon on the upcoming drama's script, Krasinski filled us in on the long hours spent at the Damon home, which was bustling thanks to Damon's four daughters.

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There's a lack of trust between Internet users and the websites that collect their private data. These sites aren't going to stop gathering personal information anytime soon, but one company hopes to make the exchange less mysterious when people sign on to a site using a social-media profile.

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Analysis: Why gun controls are off the agenda in America

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Some say talk about gun control is insensitive. No. We must mourn and act.

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Now is the time to talk guns, mental illness