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President Trump was meeting with architects about plans for a White House ballroom when staff interrupted to inform him that Charlie Kirk, the prominent conservative activist, had been killed.
"I didn't know what they meant. I said, 'What do you mean, dead?'" Trump recounted Friday, two days after the shooting. "'Charlie Kirk was shot.' They thought he was dead because it was so horrific."
The president's shock at the news reflected the widespread feelings at the White House in the aftermath of Kirk's death: Shock, anger and disbelief that someone many considered a personal friend had been shot during an appearance at Utah Valley University. |
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Missouri Republicans advanced a new set of congressional lines this month that look to add one pickup opportunity for them in the House ahead of 2026, making them the third state poised to tee up a new House map before the midterms.
Legislators in the Show Me State convened for a special session over several of Gov. Mike Kehoe's (R) priorities, including an unusual move to redraw the state's congressional lines mid-decade amid a larger push from the White House to have red states rewrite their maps before 2026. Kehoe is expected to sign the new map into law soon. |
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An effort by President Trump's administration to curb advertising for pharmaceutical drugs on television is posing creating a potential marketing hurdle for some of the country's largest drugmakers while threatening a key revenue stream for media companies.
Advertising and pharmaceutical industry experts say an executive order Trump signed this week could pose an existential threat to the business model of both drugmakers and the media companies which raked in an estimated $5 billion in advertising revenue from pharmaceutical companies in 2024. |
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President Trump's Vatican envoy delivered a special birthday gift to Pope Leo XIV ahead of the pontiff's 70th celebration on Sunday.
Brian Burch brought a cake from Portillo's, a popular Chicago food chain, to commemorate the U.S.-born pope's first birthday as head of the Catholic Church, according to Reuters.
Burch told the pope, "Portillo's sent it to you," in a video detailing their interaction. Leo responded: "And you brought it." |
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New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman on Friday said President Trump and his surrounding staff are "struggling" after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
"So many people around President Trump are very close to Charlie Kirk. President Trump was very close to Charlie Kirk. And President Trump faced two assassination attempts, one near miss last year," she said during a Friday appearance on CNN's "The Source. |
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Trump says he hopes nation will heal after Kirk assassination but claims 'radical left' an obstacle
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President Trump, in a Saturday interview, said he hopes the nation heals after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but blamed the "radical left" for being an obstacle in that healing.
"I'd like to see it [the nation] heal," the president said in a brief telephone interview with NBC News. "But we're dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don't play fair and they never did."
Police said Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old resident of Utah, is being investigated as the alleged gunman in the fatal shooting of the Turning Point USA founder |
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Comedian Bill Maher on Friday said both political parties need to tone down the political temperature after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.
"The only way this starts to get better is if both sides admit, 'Okay, let's not have this debate about who started it. Let's not debate about who's worse because, plainly, both sides do it now,'" Maher said during a Friday episode of HBO's "Real Time."
"And the right has done it too. A lot," he added. |
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BY NICOLE BIBBINS SEDACA AND LAURA COLLINS, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS |
OPINION | The recently released U.S. Department of State Human Rights Reports have stirred significant controversy about notable cuts in length and issue coverage, delayed release, and perceived bias, particularly on countries like Hungary, Brazil and South Africa.
Equally concerning is the disconnect between migration policy and the reports' coverage of countries like Haiti, Ukraine and Afghanistan and the unduly rosy reporting of countries like El Salvador. Each case highlights this troubling inconsistency, as well as the willingness to deport people to dangerous situations, and — more broadly — a significant divergence from American foreign policy. |
BY SHARON CERESNIE SORKIN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR |
OPINION | In January 2024, Ann Arbor Public Schools became the first public school district in the country to pass a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Regardless of one's stance on the conflict, the resolution marked a troubling shift: A public K-12 school district was taking an official position on a deeply divisive geopolitical issue.
As a parent advocate in Ann Arbor concerned about my children's schools providing an inclusive and high quality education, I was struck not only by the content of the resolution but by the precedent it set — one that risks politicizing our classrooms and alienating families. |
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President Trump does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all Americans. |
The senseless killing of the influential youth activist is setting off a wave of conversation at polarized colleges nationwide |
With the Taliban barring women from college in her native Afghanistan, Bahara Saghari set her sights on pursuing higher education in the United States.
Saghari, 21, practiced English up to eight hours per day for several years, eventually winning an offer to study business administration at a private liberal arts college in Illinois. She was hoping to arrive this fall, but her plans were derailed again, this time by President Donald Trump's travel ban. |
BY CAT ZAKRZEWSKI, YVONNE WINGETT SANCHEZ AND DREW HARWELL |
The 31-year-old activist and provocateur built a modern political organization for the social media age through the arts of online discourse and discord. |
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