The AP reported several historically Black colleges locked down or canceled classes after receiving threats, a day after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk
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Widow of Charlie Kirk says her ‘cries will echo around the world like a battle cry’
In statement Friday, Erika Kirk says ‘evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done’
Erika Kirk, the widow of rightwing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk, said in a statement Friday evening that her late husband’s message and mission will be “stronger, bolder, louder and greater than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the world like a battle cry”.
“I loved knowing one of his mottos was ‘never surrender’,” she said of her late husband. “We’ll never surrender.”
Continue reading...Australia’s eSafety watchdog tells social media giants to shield kids from gruesome Kirk shooting footage
Commission asked platforms to apply content warnings to protect children or others who do not want to see US shooting
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Australia’s eSafety watchdog has asked social media companies to do more to guard children from seeing graphic footage of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk being shot dead.
Kirk, an ally to US president Donald Trump, was killed while speaking on a university campus in Utah on Thursday.
Continue reading...Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move
President tells Fox News ‘the radicals on the left are the problem’ and refuses to seek common way forward
Donald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, preferring to cast “vicious and horrible” radicals on the left of US politics as the sole problem.
In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah. “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics.
Continue reading...Charlie Kirk shooting: new video of suspect released by FBI amid urgent appeal for help from the public
FBI reward of $100,000 and direct appeals for public support appear to signal law enforcement’s continued struggles to identify the killer of Trump ally
US officials have issued an urgent appeal for help from the public as they continue to search for the shooter of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, releasing new videos and photos from the scene of the attack in Utah.
More than 24 hours after Kirk was shot while speaking in front of thousands of people at a Utah university, the state’s governor, appearing alongside FBI director Kash Patel and other officials, said “we need as much help as we can possibly get.”
Continue reading...Trump blamed ‘radical left’ for Charlie Kirk’s death – even as shooter’s identity remains unknown
In Oval Office address, president decried the demonization of political opponents, ignoring his own past rhetoric
In his Oval Office address on Wednesday, Donald Trump sought to blame the “radical left” for Charlie Kirk’s killing while the shooter’s identity and motivations remained unclear. Trump promised an unspecified crackdown that could also target “organizations” that he claimed contributed to political violence.
Trump’s speech underscored an aggressive effort to pin the attack on the left while ignoring his own role in fomenting politically motivated violence.
Continue reading...Trump to award Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom
During a 9/11 memorial address, the president honored the far-right activist who was fatally shot on Wednesday
Speaking at the Pentagon on Thursday morning for memorial services marking the 24th anniversary of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks, Donald Trump said he would be awarding rightwing activist and close ally Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot on Wednesday, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Kirk was a “giant of his generation, a champion of liberty and an inspiration to millions and millions of people”, Trump said. “Our prayers are with his wonderful wife, Erika and his beautiful children, fantastic people they are. We miss him greatly, yet I have no doubt that Charlie’s voice and the courage he put into the hearts of countless people, especially young people, will live on.”
Continue reading...‘We are in a war’: rightwing media vow retribution for Charlie Kirk killing
Furious reaction from media figures and Donald Trump blames left for shooting of conservative activist
Full report: FBI says it found weapon as hunt for suspect continues
Trump blamed ‘radical left’ for Charlie Kirk’s death – even as shooter’s identity remains unknown
The killing of Charlie Kirk prompted a furious reaction from rightwing media on Wednesday, with prominent figures claiming “we’re in a war” and vowing “retribution” for Kirk’s death.
It was a reaction that will heighten fears about political violence in the US, coming hours after Kirk, the rightwing activist and provocateur, was shot and killed during an event at Utah university.
Continue reading...Europe’s far-right leaders attack ‘hate-mongering left’ after Charlie Kirk murder
Viktor Orbán claims death of Turning Point USA’s founder was ‘result of international hate campaign’ as prominent figures pay tribute
European far-right leaders have lauded Charlie Kirk, the influential 31-year-old conservative US activist who was fatally shot on Wednesday, with several also claiming his death was a consequence of violent leftwing rhetoric.
The European parliament briefly descended into chaos as far-right MEPs demanded a minute’s silence to honour Kirk, a rising star of Trump’s Maga movement, who was hit in the neck by a single bullet as he addressed students at Utah Valley University.
Continue reading...‘Despicable’: Republicans and Democrats condemn violence after Charlie Kirk killing
US lawmakers, in bipartisan rebuke, say violence has no place in America as Trump orders flags lowered
The killing of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah college on Wednesday afternoon prompted outrage from Democrats and Republicans over the latest act of political violence in the United States, with Donald Trump lamenting the loss of a key ally.
“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” the US president posted on his Truth Social platform.
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