Month: September 2025

The far-right activist was known for espousing racist, sexist, transphobic and nationalist beliefs on college campuses across the country.

When more than a dozen Russian drones flew into Poland overnight this week, NATO scrambled fighter jets to take them down. Western officials called it a “dangerous escalation” of the war in Ukraine. And they’re right; this wasn’t just another skirmish on the border. This was history. For the first time ever, NATO forces engaged…
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Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Thursday said Israeli strikes on Hamas leaders in Doha “killed any hope” of releasing hostages. Six people were killed in the strikes, according to The Associated Press. Al Thani told CNN he met with the families of Hamas hostages, who said they have “no other…
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President Trump’s top White House economist is on track to join the Federal Reserve board of governors in time to attend a key meeting on interest rates next week. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) teed up a Thursday vote to advance the nomination of Stephen Miran, chair of the White House Council of Economic…
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) will chair a bipartisan House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence review of the 9/11 Commission Report, her office announced. The panel will, according to Stefanik’s office, review whether progress has been made regarding the 9/11 Commission Report’s recommendations for the intelligence community.  The 585-page report, released in 2004, concluded “that the…
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky) said he includes President Trump among the group that should tone down their rhetoric in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.  ”I mean, there is a lot of rhetoric. And the president himself engages in it. He called it a hostile act to co-sponsor the Epstein resolution,”…
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You’ve likely heard the horrifying news: An assassin’s bullet struck down Charlie Kirk, prominent conservative commentator and founder of Turning Point USA, while he was speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He was just 31 years old, and leaves behind a wife and two young children.  Graphic video footage of the…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) slammed what she described as the GOP’s “good old boys club” in a new interview with Georgia’s largest newspaper. “They want women just to go along with whatever they’re doing and basically to stand there, smile and clap with approval, whereas they just have their good old boys club,” the…
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President Trump on Thursday marked the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by visiting the Pentagon memorial, where he laid a wreath and paid tribute to those killed. “This morning, we recall the light of America’s best and bravest and the love that they showed in their final moments,” Trump said. “In their memory…
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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) mourned Charlie Kirk, who was killed at an event in Utah on Wednesday, with the senator calling the right-wing activist “one of those beacons” who inspired young conservatives across the country. “He was a leader. He was the Pied Piper,” Marshall said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill” late Wednesday.…
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(NEXSTAR) – Documents filed in a California court last week are finally giving us a better idea of how big individual payouts will be in the $725 million class action lawsuit over Facebook users’ privacy. We’ve long known that big pot of money would get cut down substantially by legal fees and administrative costs, before…
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Two hosts of “TMZ Live” apologized after laughter was heard on a livestream during the outlet’s coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination Wednesday. As President Trump announced Kirk had died after being shot at Utah Valley University, TMZ’s livestream showed staff at the tabloid rushing to update their coverage. Laughter and cheers were heard in the…
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Numerous conservative voices have blamed Democrats and the media for Wednesday’s fatal shooting.

President Donald Trump announced he would award conservative activist Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

Vice President Vance honored Charlie Kirk in a lengthy post on X Wednesday night, saying the conservative activist “ran a good race.” “And now that Charlie is in heaven, I’ll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly,” Vance said. “You…
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All of the living former U.S. presidents have joined calls for an end to political violence after the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Former Presidents Biden, Obama, George W. Bush and Clinton each released statements on social media after Kirk, 31, was fatally shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on…
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Never before has a president commanded such control over his party in Congress. President Trump has reversed decades of Republican orthodoxy on tariffs, NATO, and Ukraine, among other things. And lawmakers have followed him without hesitation.  That power represents an opening. If he wants to, Trump can deliver what no other president has managed: real…
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The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a confirmation hearing Thursday morning for some of President Trump’s nominees. Among the nominees to testify is Sergio Gor, who was tapped by Trump to serve as ambassador to India and special envoy for South and Central Asia. Herschel Walker, who previously ran an unsuccessful bid for Senate,…
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“The Tonight Show” host has been on a roll in dogging the president on the files.

Peter Mandelson, the United Kingdom’s top diplomat in the U.S., was removed from his post Thursday, according to officials, over his ties to the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Stephen Doughty, the U.K.’s Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories, made the announcement to the House of Commons, citing “additional information in…
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On his hit TV show “The Apprentice,” host Donald Trump could exercise his absolute power to dismiss contestants with just two words: “You’re fired.” As president, Trump now acts as if he has the absolute power to fire federal officials. He doesn’t. One of the latest in a long line of highly qualified federal public…
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The U.S. will honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, during an annual remembrance ceremony Thursday morning at Ground Zero in New York City. According to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, 2,977 people died during the terrorist attacks — including 2,753 in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 on Flight 93 that crashed…
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Seoul and Washington had been at odds over tariffs for months.   After finally reaching the end stages of a trade deal, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung extended an olive branch to President Trump in an August White House meeting that was widely reported as an unexpected success.  Lee’s reward? An ICE operation targeting hundreds of…
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Vice President JD Vance on Thursday will travel to Salt Lake City to pay his respects to the family of Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed a day earlier, a source familiar told The Hill. Second lady Usha Vance will join him. Kirk, a conservative activist and leading voice in the MAGA movement, was…
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A manhunt was underway Thursday morning for the assassin who shot and killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a speaking event at Utah Valley University (UVU) on Wednesday. Police originally detained two individuals suspected to be connected to the shooting but later released them. “We initially took in George Zinn as a suspect. He was…
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