OREM, Utah — The young man charged with the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk stared blankly into the camera from the Utah County Jail.

There was no doubt, prosecutors declared Tuesday, that Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old on the courtroom screen, was the person who had shot and killed Kirk, one of the most charismatic figures in ...Read more

An event on the University of Minnesota campus originally scheduled to include Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot last week, is expected to continue with conservative political commentator Michael Knowles.

Kirk, a close ally of President Trump and CEO of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, and Knowles were scheduled to appear...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan Democrats in Congress are using the Sept. 30 government funding deadline to press for a permanent extension of plussed-up Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies that are set to expire at year's end and cause premium costs to spike for millions of Americans.

Most of the state’s Democratic House lawmakers said this ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had “really let me down” after meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss efforts to heighten pressure on Russia to enter negotiations that could help bring the Kremlin’s three-year war in Ukraine to an end.

“War is a different thing,” Trump said during a joint ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa should stop facilitating the work of its Racial Reconciliation Committee, a city attorney said in a memo to the City Council Thursday.

“Continuing to facilitate the committee’s activities... puts the City at risk of becoming subject to a federal enforcement action and/or losing access to federal funds,” the attorney,...Read more

BOSTON — A clash of political beliefs played out on the steps of the State House, where a vigil for Charlie Kirk was infiltrated by protesters spewing obscenity-laced chants.

The police kept both sides separated as the vigil for Kirk ended a few hours after dusk Thursday.

“We gather not only to honor Charlie’s leadership and his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia looks very different today than it did two years ago, when Mayor Muriel Bowser last sat before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

There were no National Guardsmen deployed around the city, patrolling its landmarks and picking up trash in its parks, when she testified in May 2023. And the...Read more

BOSTON — An attorney for Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney says that prosecutors are guilty of “doctoring evidence” against the Karen Read-focused blogger when securing indictments against him for witness intimidation.

“Mr. Kearney has been prejudiced by the nondisclosure and/or destruction of exculpatory and discoverable evidence,” ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania did not have any interest in hosting former President Joe Biden’s post-presidential center as the 46th president had previously claimed, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.

Earlier this month, Biden embarked on establishing his presidential library in his home state of Delaware, ending ...Read more

A new poll from Christopher Newport University shows Democrat Abigail Spanberger leading Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears 52% to 40% among likely voters in the Virginia governor’s race. Of the 808 respondents, who were surveyed between Sept. 8 and 14, 8% said they were undecided.

“There’s still certainly some room for movement,” ...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-selected vaccine advisers voted to change the way immunizations are given to millions of U.S. children each year, recommending a tweak to the standard schedule that cast a large shadow over the safety of the shots.

Members of the influential U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel said Merck & Co.’...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Thursday continued to track Tropical Storm Gabrielle while also eyeing a tropical wave moving off the coast of Africa that could become the season’s next named storm.

As of the NHC’s 5 p.m. EDT advisory on Gabrielle, the system had 50 mph sustained winds located about 700 miles east-northeast of the ...Read more

DENVER — An equipment issue at a Federal Aviation Administration radar center near Denver International Airport delayed hundreds of flights on Thursday.

Flights arriving Thursday morning and afternoon at DIA were delayed by an average of 30 minutes, and flights trying to depart the airport were delayed by an average of 45 minutes, according ...Read more

Marine One made an emergency landing Thursday while bringing President Trump and the first lady to England’s Stansted Airport for their return trip to the U.S.

The helicopter landed safely in an airfield where another chopper picked up its passengers and delivered them to their destination. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed ...Read more

DENVER — Search and rescue crews operating in the Rio Grande National Forest in southern Colorado on Thursday found the bodies of two missing elk hunters.

The hunters, 25-year-old Andrew Porter of Asheville, North Carolina, and 25-year-old Ian Stasko of Salt Lake City, were found dead by Colorado search and rescue crews, according to an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Thursday that permanently extending premium health subsidies would increase the number of insured people 3.8 million by 2035 while also increasing the deficit by $349.8 billion over 10 years.

The analysis was requested by Democrats who are looking to avoid the year-end expiration of ...Read more

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and more than a dozen other local elected officials were arrested Thursday afternoon after demanding to oversee a controversial detention center at Immigration Court in downtown Manhattan.

The leaders were zip-tied and detained after demanding access to the 10th-floor holding cells that have become an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The mystery deepened this week surrounding the case of a girl whose decomposing body was found in an abandoned Tesla registered to singer D4vd.

The discovery made national headlines earlier this month. On Wednesday, authorities identified the girl as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, an Inland Empire resident who was reported missing ...Read more