President Donald Trump called for the death penalty for the suspect in the murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday.

Shouting broke out on the House floor after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) held a moment of prayer for conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot on Wednesday afternoon.

Kelly Shackelford, President and CEO of First Liberty Institute, and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk, issued this statement today on the tragic killing of Charlie.

Charlie Kirk, a conservative commentator, died on Wednesday after being shot in the neck during a speech in Orem, Utah.

President Donald Trump expressed his “grief and anger” about the killing of Charlie Kirk in a direct-to-camera video from the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office.

With increasing urgency and horror, we have been covering the terrible upsurge in political violence that threatens to tear our country apart. Yesterday came the most shocking example yet: the assassination of 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA and drew thousands of young people to conservatism.

By: Luther Ray Abel – https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/demons-are-all-too-real/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=next-article&utm_term=first – September 10, 2025 Schoolchildren slaughtered in pews, a refugee stabbed through the neck and left to bleed, and now a leading political activist shot in the neck and confirmed dead — twice now we’ve seen the faces of men contorted by our oldest foe. Evil has been a constant in this world since...

By: Ben Shapiro – https://www.thefp.com/p/ben-shapiro-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk – September 10, 2025 “Hi, Mr. Shapiro, I’m Charlie Kirk.” Charlie was 18 years old when I met him at an event at The Breakers, the rather ritzy Palm Beach hotel that served as the gathering spot for the annual David Horowitz Freedom Center donor weekend. Charlie had just started an organization called Turning Point...

Where to begin? The murder of Charlie Kirk feels different. It feels like a true inflection point, a milestone of American cultural history after which things may not be the same.  

How Charlie Kirk Became Too Big to Ignore.