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Erika Kirk, wife of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk made her first public address since her husband's assassination on Friday evening and promised to continue the political movement her husband started. Speaking from the same studio that was used by Charlie, Erika addressed an online audience of around 200,000 viewers just after 8:25pm. During an emotional speech she called on Kirk's followers to become members of a church before making a vow to her late husband. 'Charlie, I promise I will never let your legacy die, baby,' she said. 'I promise I'll make Turning Point USA the biggest thing that...

Pat Benatar's "Invincible" -- a Top 10 hit that was the theme song for The Legend of Billie Jean as well as the lead single from Benatar's Seven the Hard Way album -- turns 40 this year. But the song's greatest significance for the singer may have come 16 years after its release. Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo and their band were scheduled to perform at an outdoor venue in California’s Napa Valley on Sept. 11, 2001, the day of airplane terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. "I was literally having a heart attack," Benatar recalls to...

Claim:Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk once said some prominent Black women did not have "the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously." Rating:True Context:Kirk was speaking on his show, "The Charlie Kirk Show," on July 13, 2023. He was talking specifically about television presenter Joy Reid; former first lady Michelle Obama; then-U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas; and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. After the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk, a conservative commentator and ally to U.S. President Donald Trump, a rumor spread that he...

In the wake of Charlie’s assassination, the media and his critics call him “hateful.” That’s a lie. Charlie stood for truth, faith, family, and open debate—inviting anyone to the mic. In this video, I respond directly, lay out what we know about the suspect, and share why we’re stepping up to carry the mission forward.

During Thursday night’s Commanders-Packers pregame show on Prime Video, host Charissa Thompson threw to video from “moments ago” in which the “Packers and the NFL observed a silent reflection following [Wednesday’s] events.” Over video of the packed stadium, the P.A. announcer said this: “The National Football League asks that you please join us in a moment of silent reflection following the murder of Charlie Kirk. The NFL condemns all violence in our communities. It will take all of us to stop hate. Thank you.” In response to an inquiry from PFT regarding how the gesture came to be, and whether...

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North Carolina Republicans are blaming Democrats' "woke" policies and lenient crime enforcement for the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail train. Meanwhile, former Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is firing back, accusing Republicans of politicizing a tragedy. Republican leaders in Charlotte held a joint news conference on Wednesday during which they condemned Democratic leaders' "woke" policies and "ongoing failures" that they say contributed to Zarutska's tragic death last month. Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was arrested on Aug. 22 after police say he stabbed Zarutska three times while riding the Lynx Blue Line...

Office Depot employees refuse to print a poster for a Charlie Kirk vigil in Michigan, claiming it's "political propaganda." Video in link.

A marketing coordinator is no longer employed with the City of Marble Falls after a social media video she posted made an apparent inappropriate reference about the death of a political activist. A marketing coordinator is no longer employed with the City of Marble Falls after a social media video she posted made an apparent inappropriate reference about the death of a political activist. On Sept. 10, April Stevens, 27, posted a TikTok video about the assassination of Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk at a Utah college campus. Kirk, 31, an influential conservative activist, was shot that day as he...

The anti-fascism anthem, seemingly referenced on a bullet casing found at the assassination scene, was also prominently featured in Netflix's 2017 Spanish crime series.Among the messages found on bullet casings left behind by conservative leader Charlie Kirk‘s alleged killer — Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah native — were “Hey fascist! Catch!,” “Notices bulge, OwO what’s this?,” and “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao.” The first “speaks for itself,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox told reporters at a Friday press conference announcing Robinson’s arrest. What the governor may not have known is that the directional arrows next to...

Former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo withdraws as candidate for Colorado Congressional District 8 By Jennifer McRae September 12, 2025 Former Rep. Yadira Caraveo has withdrawn her candidacy for Colorado Congressional District 8, the district in which she was elected in 2023. She was the first representative for that district, as it was newly created before the 2022 election due to Colorado's growing population. Caraveo made the withdrawal announcement on Friday afternoon, saying that she believed she faced a lot of resistance to her candidacy due to the "stigmatization of mental health in America." Read her full statement below. Caraveo, a...

A popular Ohio barbecue restaurant is facing major backlash after one of its co-owners called conservative activist Charlie Kirk a "piece of s---" in a social media post after his assassination. Shortly after Kirk, 31, was shot Wednesday while speaking at a campus event in Utah, Aaron Sharpe, co-owner of Lucius Q in Cincinnati, commented on a Facebook post from someone offering prayers for the husband and father of two. "Good riddance," Sharpe wrote in a post that is no longer publicly visible but has been circulated widely online in screenshots. "What a piece of s---," he added. On Wednesday...

Trial for Troy Davis, charged in the murder and attempted rape of a woman inside her Land Park home in 2021, will not begin until 2026. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman on Friday ordered attorneys to return Jan. 16 for a pre-trial hearing, at which time a date could be set for trial to begin. Mary Kate Tibbetts, 61, was beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted Sept. 3, 2021, in her 11th Avenue home before it was set ablaze in a crime that shocked her Land Park neighborhood and resonated blocks away at the State Capitol and City Hall. Her...

“This kind of content scars you for life.” As shock images of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska’s deaths spread on social media, experts reveal how the long-term impact of such videos is more harmful than you think.In the 1999 thriller 8mm, Nicolas Cage plays a private detective who watches a graphic film of a girl’s murder. His character becomes obsessed with solving the crime. He watches the footage repeatedly, leaving him psychologically wrecked and prone to violence himself. As one character puts it: “There are some things you can’t unsee … the devil don’t change, the devil changes you.” This...

At the end of a truly horrible week, I am trying to stay away, on the advice of doctors (seriously), from the Internet and from the bazillions of vile reactions to the death of Charlie Kirk - including from notorious courthouse fraudster Michael E Mann, who called him "the head of Trump's Hitler Youth"...If you send either your kids or your money to the University of Pennsylvania, you're a fool colluding in the death of your country. As I wrote fifteen sodding years ago:Education is the biggest single structural defect in the United States.If you support it, you're part of...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can now show that the Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took routes farther from land, than was previously believed to have been possible. In his latest study, he has found evidence of a decentralised network of ports, located on islands and peninsulas, which probably played a central role in trade and travel in the Viking era. Traveling in the wake of the Vikings | 5:35 Lund University | 29.4K subscribers | 18,547 views | May 20, 2025 From...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is warning civilian and military employees that the Pentagon is “tracking” any comments from them that celebrate or mock the Wednesday assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “We are tracking all these very closely — and will address, immediately. Completely unacceptable,” Hegseth wrote Thursday on social media. Hegseth was responding to a statement from chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, who earlier said it is “unacceptable for military personnel and Department of War civilians to celebrate or mock the assassination of a fellow American. The Department of War has zero tolerance for it,” using the Trump administration’s...

The fragile peace between the not-so-dynamic duo of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris reached its inevitable, undignified end this week. In a preview of her new presidential campaign memoir, “What Happen-” — er, “107 Days” — the former veep threw her onetime boss under the bus in no uncertain terms. Recalling the intra-party panic during the final months of Biden’s reelection campaign last year, Harris wrote, “‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized.” “In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she concluded. “The stakes were simply too high. This...

An NBA beat writer was fired over social media comments he made on the death of Charlie Kirk. Gerald Bourguet, a Suns beat reporter for PHNX Sports, wrote a series of posts on X that set off an uproar on the platform after the conservative political commentator was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. “’Political differences’ are not the same thing as spewing hateful rhetoric on a daily basis, and refusing to mourn a life devoted to that cause is not the same thing as celebrating gun violence,” Bourguet’s X thread on Wednesday began....

Fans of the Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth were furious at her publicly grieving the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday. The 57-year-old actress - who originated the role of Glinda on stage in Wicked - mourned Kirk's death on Wednesday on an Instagram comment on the final video he posted before he was shot in the neck by a gunman from the roof of a nearby building at Utah Valley University. The shooter is still at large as FBI Director Kash Patel traveled to Utah on Thursday amid criticism for the bureau's inability to quickly apprehend...