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Law enforcement officials delivered an update on the manhunt underway for a gunman who killed conservative political activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday. Kirk was assassinated during an appearance before several thousand attendees at Utah Valley University in Orem. The press briefing at the university comes after officials released two people of interest several who had been detained shortly after the shooting. “There are no current ties to the shooting with either of these individuals,” the Utah Department of Public Safety said in an update late Wednesday. “There is an ongoing investigation and manhunt for the shooter,” the agency said. The...

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day. In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable...

"WTF… A Private Jet left Provo Airport, which is a 12-minute drive from Utah Valley University, an hour after Charlie Kirk was shot. 30 minutes into the Flight, the Plane ILLEGALLY dropped off its ADS-B (which shows its Location, Altitude and Speed to Air Traffic Control), and reappeared 45 minutes later, heading back to Provo. Is this Plane connected to the Shooter??"

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Whoopi Goldberg used her platform on The View to plead for a stop to the 'politicization' of the murder of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte last month. 'Look, a young woman is dead. Let's take that into consideration,' Goldberg, 69, said of the brutal August 22 stabbing of Zarutska, 23, by career criminal Decarlos Brown Jr., 34. 'And yes, a man who should have been behind bars was loose and out. His mother begged them to take him and put him away.

They say they have video of the perp.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk in Utah had the hallmarks of a professional assassination, according to several security experts. The prominent conservative activist, who was 31, was struck in the neck by a single gunshot as he delivered a speech to a large crowd on campus at Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday. He collapsed and was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Analysts point to the firing of a single shot and a preestablished escape route as evidence that the shooting had been carefully planned. Kirk was the founder of the right-leaning youth organization...

Minutes before we went on air, Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was shot on stage in Utah. A quarter-hour after the show ended, President Trump announced on Truth Social that Charlie was dead. As I write, a second suspect has been taken into custody.UPDATE: Like the first suspect, he has been released. So, as of now, the killer remains at large.There are disturbing Internet posts from the hours before his death.......The left's bloodlust is everywhere. Ari Fleischer appears to be an agreeable cove - I don't know him - but this is insufficient to the moment:Laura Ingraham...

luesky has issued a warning to users after some accounts celebrated the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. "Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we're committed to fostering healthy, open conversations," the social media platform wrote in a post. Kirk, 31, was the founder of the right-leaning youth organization Turning Point USA and a longtime ally of President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, as Kirk delivered a speech under a tent to a large crowd at Utah...

Europe faces four self-inflicted crises—radical green mandates, collapsing families, unchecked immigration, and rising tribalism—that now threaten Western civilization itself. Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted—and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides. These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage. Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth. The global warming hysterics could not just entertain gradual transformations away from dependencies on traditional fuels and power generation. Instead, elites have demanded catastrophic and near-instant “net zero” mandates. That radicalism entailed...

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐄 Remember how the Left freaked out when Elon Musk bought Twitter? They swore it would become a “haven for hate” if free speech wasn’t tightly censored. So they ran off to Blue Sky — their “safe space” of purity and virtue. And what do we see there after Charlie Kirk’s death? Post after post cheering for the next conservative to be targeted. 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵. 𝘋𝘰 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵. 𝘉𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵. 𝘑.𝘒. 𝘙𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵. 𝘌𝘭𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘬 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘕𝘨𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵. These are not fringe accounts — this is the culture of that platform....

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I met Charlie at the start of his career and came away impressed. He mattered. And now he is dead, as the leftist fever swamps celebrate. As you all know, Charlie Kirk was killed today, leaving behind a wife, two young children, and a movement. I had the pleasure of meeting Charlie nine years ago, at the start of his amazing rise as a voice of young conservatism, and I came away deeply impressed, a perception that never left me. But to understand both Charlie and his death, you need to understand the madness of the left. (And no, we...

Charlie Kirk: May He Rest in PeaceCharlie Kirk had a gift for embracing his critics, for refuting their arguments, for harnessing their hatred. He loved debate and he loved ideas. He believed in discussion and openness, and urged this country to open it up so that everyone had a place, not just those who agreed with codified claims of mainstream media. Kirk ran a nationwide debating society, building it from its founding to a huge national presence. His talent for debate, more than any other force in the country, was responsible for President Trump winning the Gen Z vote in...

They Killed Charlie Kirk Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. We are all Charlie Kirk now. They would rather kill us than debate us. You may have murdered a messenger who had a beautiful family, but you did not kill this freedom movement sweeping the young people around the world. You Democrats may have killed another Christian who loved the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior, you did not kill every Christian in the world who loves Jesus. You just...

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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(9/11/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleJudges 7:24-2524 Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. 25 They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the...

Charlie Kirk, Martyr“For they killed him in his kindness.”This is who they chose to kill: the affable man whose main act was having good-faith political debates with college students. The man who, since fatherhood, was turning more toward Christianity as both a purpose and a theme. He was a partisan to be sure, but he was nowhere near the outer limits of the American tradition, especially given his relentless fixation on Lincolnian persuasion as a stabilizing force in a slowly disintegrating polity. The ones who kept losing debates with him didn’t feel that way, of course, but they were only...

“He said, ‘I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of the Lord,” as Isaiah the prophet said’” (John 1:23). John the Baptist gained great notoriety quickly in Israel with his baptism and his message of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. With so many people flocking to him, the Jewish authorities sent a delegation of priests and Levites to investigate him. First they asked John, “Who are you?” His behavior was certainly not what they would have expected from the son of a priest. John’s response, “I am not the Christ,” only added...

EXCLUSIVE: This morning my team received an e-mail from officer at ATF. The email included a screen shot from what appears to be an internal message describing a weapon and cartridges located by ATF and other law enforcement near the scene of the Charlie Kirk shooting at Utah Valley State University. “On September 10, 2025, at approximately 12:24PM, Conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at the Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. Mr. Kirk was speaking at the University as part of the American Comeback Tour. Multiple SLC I and III agents responded immediately. The suspect fired...