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A courageous young woman at the University of North Texas (UNT) is speaking out after being mocked, harassed, and removed from class for defending the late conservative icon Charlie Kirk, just hours after his shocking assassination during a live campus debate. Mary Catherine, a student at UNT, shared her powerful testimony on TikTok, describing the disturbing experience she endured in her quantitative methods class, where she says classmates not only celebrated Kirk’s death but cheered the brutal act as they passed around the assassination video. She says the students even began wishing the same fate on President Donald Trump and...

University of Michigan assistant professor Charles H.F. Davis stated on Thursday that the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is a “solution” to “violent rhetoric spewed by empowered people.” Davis’ research broadly focuses on “racism, oppression, and structures of domination in U.S. higher education,” according to The Midwesterner. In addition to defending Kirk’s murder, Davis retweeted several posts that celebrated the assassination.

US Vice President JD Vance has led a full military honour guard in escorting the coffin of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk onto Air Force Two.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Cornelius City Councilor John Colgan is under criticism for a post he made about Charlie Kirk’s death on Facebook. “Hearing that Charlie Kirk got shot and died really brightened up my day,” Colgan said in the post. “Nobody deserves it, but some are asking for it.” Colgan is also a science teacher at Neil Armstrong Middle School in Forest Grove, according to the school’s website. He was elected to the Cornelius City Council in January 2023. He served previously from January 2019 to December 2022. As first reported by WIRED, right-wing activists and influencers nationwide have...

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President Donald Trump urged supporters Thursday to respond peacefully to the killing of right-wing campaigner Charlie Kirk, as the murderer continued to evade a manhunt more than 24 hours after the shooting put an already divided U.S. on edge. Trump, who soon after the killing angrily pledged a wide-ranging response against the "radical left," told reporters that Kirk had been "an advocate of nonviolence." "That's the way I'd like to see people respond," he said. Kirk, a 31-year-old superstar on the Republican right who sparked surging youth support for Trump, was shot while addressing a large crowd at Utah Valley...

🚨🚨🚨#BREAKING FBI Director Kash Patel, Utah Governor Spencer Cox and other top officials will hold a press conference at 9:30 pm ET on Charlie Kirk assassination.

A Lancashire councillor who posted that the assassination of right-wing US political activist Charlie Kirk was "good riddance" has resigned. Fiona Wild, who represented Lanehead ward as an independent on Burnley Council, has since deleted the post which also said the "not... very nice man made himself a target and brought this on himself". Kirk was one of America's most high-profile conservative media personalities and a trusted ally of President Donald Trump. The 31-year-old was shot at a college in Utah on Wednesday. Burnley Council confirmed Wild's resignation, said it "does not condone the comments" and confirmed it was investigating...

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT Cardinal Hollerich suggests Church should not define sexual morality so ‘narrowly’The Luxembourg cardinal advocated for expanding the Catholic Church's view of sexual morality despite the Catechism defining homosexual acts as 'intrinsically disordered.'A cardinal from Luxembourg suggested that he would change the Catholic Church’s doctrine on sexuality.In a September 6 interview with Austrian outlet Die Furche, Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J. advocated for the Catholic Church to expand their view of sexual morality while also promoting synodality.Hollerich revealed that he “would not define morality — especially sexual morality — as narrowly as the Church does today.”Hollerich alleged that...

Students were evacuated from the University of Massachusetts in Boston amid reports of an active shooter near the East Hall building.

This is the first in a two-part series of the Great Dispersion of Americans across the country.For much of the past century, in both the United States and elsewhere, the inexorable trend has been for people to move from rural areas and towns to ever larger cities, particularly those with vibrant downtown cores such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and dozens of other iconic American cities. Most visions of the future still view urban cores as the uncontested centers of production, consumption, and culture, with rural areas, small cities, and suburbs relegated to the backwaters of modernity.A RealClearInvestigations...

A witch who was paid to put a curse on Charlie Kirk days before he was shot to death has said her magic is ‘effective’. Police are still searching for the shooter after the Donald Trump ally was killed at an event at Utah Valley University yesterday. Despite Mr Kirk’s controversial political opinions his death has drawn outrage from across the political spectrum, condemning political violence and the suppression of free speech. Follow Metro’s live blog for coverage of the Charlie Kirk shooting A few days before his death, US news and opinion site Jezebel published an article ‘cursing’ Mr...

US News Mystery bearded man in crowd at Charlie Kirk shooting seen cheering and looking back after gunshot By Anthony Blair and Caitlin McCormack Published Sep. 11, 2025 Updated Sep. 11, 2025, 6:40 p.m. ET 1K Comments A video has emerged that appears to show a bearded man who appeared to be celebrating and looking in the direction of the gunshot moments after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Footage shared widely online, and ripped from TV feeds, shows a young man wearing a black T-shirt and a backwards baseball cap pumping his fists and cheering in the immediate aftermath of the...

The U.S. Naval Academy is on lockdown after a midshipman who had been kicked out of the school returned to campus armed with a weapon, multiple sources inside the U.S. Naval Academy tell Fox News. Gunshots were heard inside Bancroft Hall, which houses the midshipmen. One victim was transported via medevac and multiple other victims were being assessed. One official on campus said, "The shooter is knocking on doors pretending to be a military policeman." "Naval Support Activity Annapolis, in coordination with local law enforcement, is currently responding to reports of threats made to the Naval Academy," NSAA PAO, LT...

Investigators now have the name of person of interest, according to three sources, though no arrest warrant has been issued. Authorities posted images earlier Thursday of a "person of interest" and asked the public for help in identifying the individual. A law enforcement official said investigators have "good video footage" of the suspect and also recovered the weapon used in the shooting.

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit a home run in his first at bat of the game -- his 45th of his spectacular season -- to put the Yankees on top early, 1-0. Aaron Judge hit a home run in the first inning. President Trump shook hands with Judge in the Yankees clubhouse before the game and told him that he's a "fantastic player." The commander in chief applauded Judge's 413-foot blast from his perch in the owner's box high above the field.

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old father of two and founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed in broad daylight Wednesday at a Utah Valley University event in what Utah governor Spencer Cox described as a "political assassination." The event marked the first stop of Kirk's "American Comeback" campus tour. Sitting under his signature "Prove Me Wrong" tent, Kirk spoke for roughly 20 minutes before a single shot rang out, reportedly from roughly 200 yards away, as Kirk began to answer a question about transgender shooters. A gruesome video from the event shows a bullet hitting Kirk in...

At least one person has been hospitalized and several other victims are being assessed after an armed former Naval Academy student opened fire on the Maryland campus. At least one person was taken by helicopter to a local hospital, The Baltimore Sun and Fox News reported. Fox also claimed there were 'multiple victims' being assessed at the scene. The New York Times reported that an email was sent out to students with a warning at 5:32pm: 'Get inside and lock your door right now. Not a drill. Get inside and lock your door.' Multiple sources said they heard gunshots in...

Ben Shapiro claims more political violence has come from the left than the right.Following the death of ultra-right-wing conservative Charlie Kirk, who was murdered while hosting an event at Utah Valley University, his friend and fellow pundit Ben Shapiro had a few thoughts he needed to share. According to a piece Shapiro penned for The Free Press, he and Kirk met when the latter was only 18 years old. Kirk had just started Turning Point USA, the conservative nonprofit organization whose mission is to "identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and...

Mexico’s ruling class is coming apart at the seams—and the panic is all about one thing: whether to finally get serious about cartel terror with U.S. help. A full-on melee broke out on the floor of Mexico’s Congress of the Union on Thursday after a debate over possible American involvement in crushing the cartels turned into shoves, swings, and a staffer getting knocked to the ground. The brawl laid bare what many on both sides of the border already know: the status quo is unsustainable, and the political left would rather throw punches than confront the criminal armies bleeding Mexico—and...