News reports indicte that A 911 call was placed from Congressman LaMalfa's residence at approximately 6:50 p.m. on Monday, January 5, 2026, reporting a medical emergency. Emergency personnel responded immediately and transported LaMalfa to Enloe Health in Chico, where he was taken into emergency surgery. He sadly died during the surgical procedure at 3:20 a.m. on January 6, 2026

In a dramatic escalation of U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, American special forces conducted a large-scale military operation in Venezuela early this morning, resulting in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The raid, which involved airstrikes on key military and infrastructure sites

The suspect was identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente (also referred to as Neves-Valente), a 48-year-old Portuguese national and U.S. permanent resident since September 2017, with a last known address in Miami, Florida. Valente was a former Brown student, enrolled in the physics Ph.D. program from fall 2000 to spring 2001. - He had known links to murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro.