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The late Charlie Kirk's wife, Erika, revealed in an interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters that her husband "loved Saint Michael." The exclusive interview premiered on November 5. It was Erika's first sit-down discussion since Charlie was killed on Sept. 10, 2025. "When we first started dating," Erika begins, "I asked him, 'Why don't you wear a cross? You say you're a Christian, but you don't wear a cross.' "He said, 'I don't know. I'm not a jewelry guy.' "So for his first birthday present, I got him this cross. Throughout time, I would always add different medals to it....

When a country runs hot, a single word can cool the air. Not the script cable news expected. In a week when headlines pulsed with anger, a young widow stood before a grieving crowd and chose mercy. Conservative leader Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10 during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Police arrested a 22-year-old, Tyler Robinson, who is accused in the shooting and faces aggravated murder and related charges. The details are grim; the reaction was not. At Charlie's Memorial, Erika Kirk spoke directly to the darkness with a clarity rooted...

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) CEO Erika Kirk appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” Friday, saying the show would feature rotating hosts while there was a “blueprint” for the organization.TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was gunned down during a Sept. 10 TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University, where he was debating attendees. Erika, who succeeded her late husband as CEO of the conservative student group, said that some of the co-hosts and staff for Kirk on his radio show were “pieces of his brain.”“Collectively, each one of you are a piece of his brain,” Erika Kirk said. “I know...

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e-mail 1.3k shares 3.4k View comments Charlie Kirk's grieving widow shared a series of tender images as she wept beside her husband's casket in a final, intimate farewell to the slain conservative activist. Erika Kirk could be seen in the deeply personal footage as she gently strokes her husband’s hand and sits beside his body, dressed in a dark suit and red tie inside lacquered wooden casket. 'Oh I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. God bless you,' she whispers through muffled sobs, her voice cracking as she weeps over his body. The sound of...

So much has changed, not least the US presidency, writes Erika Dreifus from New York What a difference a year makes. At the end of October 2016, I was travelling in Israel with a group from my home congregation. Our 10-day voyage was scheduled to return us to Newark Liberty International Airport early on Tuesday morning, November 7 — in time to vote in that day’s U.S. presidential election. But just in case we encountered any delays, I obtained and submitted an absentee ballot prior to departure. Much about those days lingers in memory: the Israeli hotel breakfasts — still...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared state of emergency Friday ahead of Tropical Storm Erika, currently drenching the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and headed for the Dominican Republic. Erika, moving to the west-northwest at 17 miles per hour, is expected to gradually turn north as it approaches Florida Sunday evening,.....

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It's time to release the hurricane tracking sharks because we're officially in the dreaded "cone of uncertainty" with Tropical Storm Erika, which is expected to arrive in our neck of the woods by Monday morning. Most models predict that Erika could be a hurricane by the time it reaches our general area next week. According to most tracks and predictions, Erika's cone covers all of South Florida, as she approaches the Leeward Islands tonight. Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla are all under a Tropical Storm Warning. The latest advisory has Erika with maximum sustained winds of...

Tropical Storm Erika developed in the North Atlantic September 1, 2009. Erika is expected to pass to the NE of the Leeward Islands Thursday, currently moving WNW at 8 miles per hour. Erika is not anticipated to strengthen into a hurricane over the next several days. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for St. Maarten, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, St.Martin and St. Barthelemy. In other tropical storm news, Hurricane Jimena is approaching Southern Baja, and weather conditions there are deteriorating rapidly. Jimena maximum sustained wind speeds are 115mph. Public Advisories Updated every six hours. Tropical Storm Discussion...

As of 10 AM CT, T.S. Danny was located about 320 miles northeast of Nassau and had max winds near 60 mph. Danny is not moving consistently to the northwest but that is the overall general direction of movement at about 13 mph. A general northwest motion is likely for the next 24-hours and then a more northerly turn is anticipated with an increase in forward speed.

A FRIEND OF MINE, an ex-radical who became a conservative and Deputy Sheriff of a Vermont town -- has a bumper sticker on his pickup truck that reads "Hanoi Jane Not Welcome Here." I admit to always having felt uncomfortable reading it, since it seemed to me to be an unnecessary reminder of the terrible, polarized atmosphere surrounding the war in Vietnam. It was a time when ultra-conservative supporters of the war showed their anger by what I thought was an unjustified demand that she be tried for "treason," because of what she had said in her trip to North...

Tropical Storm Erika Advisory Number 1 Statement as of 5:00 PM EDT on August 14, 2003 ...Erika...the fifth tropical storm of the season forms in the Gulf of Mexico... Tropical Storm Erika could threaten southern Texas or northeastern Mexico within the next 36 to 48 hours. Watches or warnings will likely be issued tonight or early Friday. Consult statements issued by local government and National Weather Service offices for recommended actions in your area. Reports from a reconnaissance plane and satellite images indicate that the area of disturbed weather in the Gulf of Mexico has become Tropical Storm Erika...the fifth...