The F.B.I. shared surveillance video of a man running across a roof near where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University.
Millions of people saw the brief exchange between the right-wing political activist and a liberal TikToker after footage of the assassination spread like wildfire across social media.
Already, a series of missteps by Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, in recent months have invited worries that he has eroded public confidence in the agency.
After a day of hunting for a suspect in the assassination, investigators pleaded for help from the public.
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Desmond Holly, 16, who is suspected of shooting and critically injuring two students, had been “radicalized by an extremist network,” the authorities said.
La gente entre la multitud dijo que el disparo no fue muy fuerte y que no todos se dieron cuenta inmediatamente de lo que ocurría.
Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah has called for politicians to tone down their rhetoric. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is testing the limits of that high-minded approach.
Little is known about the killer, who may have used a popular type of hunting rifle in the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
Kirk, de 31 años, fundador de un grupo activista juvenil de derecha, recibió un disparo mientras pronunciaba un discurso en la Universidad de Utah Valley.
Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Trump, was shot dead on Wednesday at Utah Valley University. People who were there recounted hearing a single gunshot and seeing a stampede as the audience ran.
Mr. Kirk often pointed to his marriage as an example of a loving, conservative partnership. The pair married in 2021 and had two children.
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Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, said that the agency’s investigation was continuing, reversing his earlier announcement that someone had been apprehended.
The 77-year-old former banker, who lives in Toronto, said he was “shocked” by the speed at which his photograph spread online.
Charlie Kirk, who founded the right-wing youth activist organization Turning Point USA, was fatally shot in the neck on Wednesday while speaking at a campus event in Orem, Utah.
Initial expressions of grief and shock were overtaken by open calls for reckoning and vengeance, as some proclaimed the country was on the brink of civil war.
President Trump promised to find those responsible for political violence, as well as the “organizations that fund it and support it.”
Mr. Kirk was among the faithful who had helped Mr. Trump build a comeback after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol made him a political outcast. Mr. Trump brought him into his second-term inner circle.
A man who attended the Charlie Kirk event was trying to get good footage to share with his friends.
Mr. Kirk, 31, the founder of a right-wing youth activist group, was shot while speaking at the university on Wednesday.
Mr. Kirk was an energetic member of President Trump’s inner circle who appealed to young conservative voters and wealthy Republicans alike.
This is a moment to turn down the volume and reflect on our political culture.
After a moment of silence to honor Charlie Kirk, Republicans and Democrats began shouting partisan insults at each other.
Maps and photos show how the shooting that killed Charlie Kirk on a university campus in Utah unfolded.
Some politicians called for prayers, while some others immediately cast blame.
Witnesses in the crowd said that the shot was not very loud and that not everyone had immediately realized what was happening.
All three were in critical condition after the gunfire on the grounds of Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colo., which is southwest of Denver, according to the local sheriff’s office.
The group founded by Charlie Kirk is a right-wing political organization that focuses on motivating young people.
Kirk, un aliado cercano del presidente Trump, recibió un disparo en el cuello mientras hablaba en un campus universitario.
Improved service, better seating and heartfelt messages are at the heart of Brian Niccol’s turnaround plan, but baristas say they’re under pressure.
As a civilian humanist, my presence might — for some attendees — invalidate my arguments; I wouldn’t be heard because of what I represent to the right.
If the results are promising, veterinarians hope to give the shots to wild Hawaiian monk seals, which are endangered.
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Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump pardoned him in January.
Eric Singer left his Ohio home on his bicycle, never to be seen again. With the help of advances in DNA research, he was finally found.
Some mayors and police chiefs said they would welcome more traditional law enforcement cooperation with federal agents, but see the National Guard as a step too far.
The former Alaska Airlines pilot had consumed psychedelic mushrooms two days before the flight. Judges approved plea agreements in his case on Friday.
Patrick Maisonet’s targets in the Seattle area included the baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki and the former football star Richard Sherman, officials said.
Kevin Ashton found job satisfaction mentoring sorority sisters at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The water pushed the man into a hole in the ice that suddenly filled with a torrent of water. He hasn’t been seen since.
The man, Vadim Kruglov, 37, was found “lying in a pool of blood,” the authorities said. Officials are investigating his death as a possible homicide.
The proposed 211-mile industrial road over pristine land would allow a mining company to reach a copper deposit. Critics say it would destroy a fragile environment.
A federal judge ended the monitoring imposed after allegations of excessive force and racial bias. The city pointed to progress in improving officer accountability and training.
Inspired by his parents’ travels, he spent much of his life in Africa and helped complete his father’s safari memoir. He also published a volume of father-son letters.
Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
President Trump said his decision was motivated in part by his grudge against Colorado, a state he lost in all three of his runs for president.
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The victim, whose identity was unknown, was found “lying in a pool of blood” on Saturday night, officials said.
A dazzling display in the nighttime sky might be seen much farther south than usual, including parts of Iowa, Oregon and Pennsylvania, by Tuesday, forecasters said.
The Trump administration could update the Roadless Rule to permit temporary roads to allow for forest thinning.
Some first-time home buyers, facing high interest rates, are trading their metropolitan lifestyles for lower-cost living.
The man is accused of fatally shooting four people in a bar in Anaconda, Mont. He had led the police on an eight-day manhunt that rattled the community.
Grant Gardner’s body was found by a climbing team on Wednesday in Bighorn National Forest, a week after the authorities called off a search.
The looming energy crisis in Anchorage offers a lesson in the downsides of relying on fossil fuels.
A woman unexpectedly went into labor at the desert festival. Within minutes, a neonatal nurse, an OB-GYN, a pediatric doctor and other attendees filled her camper.
Two masked men crept into the rapper’s house in June, attacked a nanny with bear spray and stole jewelry, including a Seattle Sounders soccer championship ring, the police said.
In settling a lawsuit brought by the A.C.L.U., the Colorado town agreed to fund an art program for underrepresented people and provide cultural sensitivity training to some of its employees.
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The Education Department gave Denver Public Schools 10 days to ban transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
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Local firefighting officials provided few details about the incident at Olympic National Forest. Federal officials rarely enforce immigration laws at the site of an emergency.
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Amid deep cuts, more than 90 parks have reported problems like lost revenue and cuts to emergency services. One expert called this “a dangerous path.”
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A G.O.P. effort to carve up a Democratic stronghold ignored the will of voters, a judge said. The ruling, which Republicans can appeal, makes the state another battleground in the national fight over redistricting.
Threatened by the president with political retribution, Republicans agreed to defund public broadcasting, imperiling a lifeline of communication in rural Alaska.
The question of whether to send soldiers to a postwar Ukraine is the latest chapter in an evolving relationship between Germans and their military.
Since Congress approved President Trump’s request to claw back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting, local stations in rural areas are at risk of going dark. Megan Mineiro, a congressional reporter for The New York Times, went to rural Alaska to see how the cuts affect one radio station and a town that relies on it.
The intense dust storm briefly grounded flights and knocked out power to thousands in the region.
The brief ground stop at Sky Harbor International Airport was lifted on Monday evening, but delays were expected as operations resumed.
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More than 1,000 homes in Oregon were under some kind of evacuation because of the Flat fire, which was one of many wildfires burning in the West, amid hot weather.
The administration’s effort to oust a Fed governor as part of a pressure campaign for lower borrowing costs created an inescapable distraction at this year’s Jackson Hole conference.
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The order expanded a previous one in April that barred the Trump administration from withholding federal funding to 16 cities and counties over their local laws.
The judge rejected a 20-year sentence that would have been combined with a federal case. Prosecutors said that Jon Hallford, 45, and his wife cheated grieving families while living a lavish lifestyle.
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, signaled that interest rate cuts may be coming during his final speech as Fed chair on Friday at an annual conference hosted by the Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Jackson, Wyo.
Video of the wolf on a leash in a bar prompted outrage. A sheriff’s department investigation stalled, but more than a year later, a grand jury indicted a man on a felony count.
Jerome H. Powell said the “balance of risks” across the economy had started to shift, raising the odds the central bank lowers borrowing costs at its next meeting in September.
The Fed chief is expected to address inflation, interest rates and the economy in his speech on Friday. Will he also confront President Trump’s attacks on central bank independence?
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Fire crews discovered the men’s bodies on Wednesday at a farm near the town of Keenesburg, about 40 miles northeast of Denver, officials said.
In fact, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday, the ranger had injured himself and orchestrated an “elaborate hoax” claiming someone had attacked him and fled.
The president’s calls for Lisa Cook, a Fed governor, to resign are diverting attention from economic issues as top central bankers from around the world gather in Jackson, Wyo.
Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is managing a high-stakes balancing act as he grapples with a cooling labor market, rising inflation and White House pressure to cut interest rates.
Yarely Hermosillo, 27, was in a car struck by a bullet fired by a man who was arguing with another driver in Glendale, Ariz., the police said.
Diplomats scrambled to come up with detailed proposals for security guarantees and other sticking points following two high-level summits in Alaska and Washington.
A fight between two students at Maryvale High School in Phoenix on Tuesday left one fatally stabbed and the other with non-life-threatening injuries and in custody, officials said.
A manhunt was underway for the attacker as the ranger was airlifted to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after the episode at Staunton State Park, the authorities said.
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El presidente de Ucrania, Volodímir Zelenski, y otros líderes europeos han aprendido un par de cosas sobre cómo negociar al estilo de Trump. También Vladimir Putin.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders have learned a thing or two about negotiating, Trump-style. So has Vladimir Putin.
Los papeles, que describen la secuencia de los acontecimientos e incluyen los números de teléfono de varios funcionarios, fueron encontrados el viernes y enviados a NPR por un huésped del hotel.
The officers were responding to a domestic disturbance on Sunday when a man came outside and opened fire, the police said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, an envoy for President Trump, suggested that a peace deal was still distant.
The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president.
The papers, laying out the sequence of events and including the phone numbers of several officials, were found around 9 a.m. on Friday and sent to NPR by a guest of the hotel.
The president of Ukraine and his European allies are to visit the White House on Monday, after President Trump backed Russia’s plan to end the war.
The statue was missing an ear and two front legs, but it was mostly intact when crews recovered it from the Dragon Bravo fire.
Evacuees at a shelter in eastern Ukraine reacted angrily to talk that land that has long been theirs could be given to Russia in exchange for peace.
Halibut Olympia, a Tuesday-night kind of recipe, was part of the planning (if not the eating) at the Friday meeting.
President Trump’s break from a strategy agreed to with European allies could give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia an edge as talks to end the fighting continue.
The net effect of the Alaska summit was to give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a free pass to continue his war against his neighbor indefinitely without further penalty, pending talks on a broader peace deal.
Shane Tamura was barely known in the city where he lived, working at night and navigating mental health crises. He drove 2,500 miles east to commit New York’s deadliest shooting in a quarter-century.
President Trump’s failure to reach an accord on Ukraine only made his warm welcome for the Russian leader more striking.
President Trump gave President Vladimir Putin a warm public reception, effectively ending his diplomatic isolation over the past three years for his invasion of Ukraine. But Mr. Putin did not agree to stop the war.
President Trump clapped for his guest, Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as he stepped foot in the United States for the first time in a decade.
The summit in Alaska between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has unleashed a wave of propaganda and disinformation from Russian state media and online conspiracy theorists.
President Trump arrived in Alaska on Friday for a meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, hoping to broker a cease-fire in the Ukraine war.
Una confrontación abrupta, un estancamiento o un primer paso hacia un alto al fuego son posibles en la cumbre en Alaska, mientras los dos líderes navegan por temas espinosos como el territorio de Ucrania.
La cumbre entre Trump y Putin se celebra en una antigua colonia rusa que Estados Unidos compró por 7,2 millones de dólares en 1867. ¿Cómo se fraguó el acuerdo y por qué su legado es importante?
The delegations include top diplomatic, military and economic officials, a sign that the U.S. and Russia will discuss more than the war in Ukraine.
A colony of bats recently took up residence at the storied Jackson Lake Lodge, where central bankers and economic policymakers will convene next week for an exclusive gathering.
A sudden feud, an impasse or a first step toward a cease-fire are all possible at the summit in Alaska as the two leaders navigate thorny issues such as Ukraine’s territory and NATO expansion.
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The leaders of the United States and Russia will hold talks at an American military base in Alaska and are expected to hold a news conference afterward.
Oregon Health & Science University said the couple’s donation would be the largest single gift to a higher-learning institution in the United States.
Calling himself America’s best trial lawyer, he won justice for Karen Silkwood and successfully defended Imelda Marcos. He also wrote best sellers.
The talks on Friday in Alaska pull the Russian leader out of diplomatic isolation from the West, and Ukrainian and European leaders fear it gives him an opening to sway the American president.
Algunos animales están infectados por el virus del papiloma del conejo de cola de algodón, una enfermedad que suelen superar por sí solos.
In a show of unity, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine hugged Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain a day before President Trump was to meet President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Alaska.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was not invited to the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, but 1,000 Ukrainian refugees in Alaska will be watching with trepidation.
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El presidente Trump ha evitado en gran medida criticar con severidad a Vladimir Putin personalmente, a pesar de sus recientes quejas sobre la intransigencia rusa para poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania.
The unsightly bunnies are infected with cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, which can cause growths that resemble warts or tentacles.
Solomon Peña, who lost a bid for a seat in the New Mexico Legislature in 2022, was found guilty in March of orchestrating the attacks against state Democrats.
President Trump wants to be seen as a peacemaker, but the meeting comes with enormous stakes.
President Trump struck a remarkably unconcerned tone when asked to address the horrors of war, raising questions about whether he has the leverage to convince Vladimir V. Putin to agree to end the invasion in Ukraine.
Ukrainians are heroes. It’s time that Trump started acting like it.
The homicides appear to be unrelated, according to prison officials, who said that drugs were believed to have been a contributing factor.
Hay algo que al presidente de Rusia le importa más que el dinero.
As the summer heat becomes increasingly extreme in Phoenix, people who can’t escape the sun are suffering third-degree burns, heatstroke and dehydration.
President Trump has largely held back from harsh criticism of Vladimir V. Putin personally, despite recent complaints about Russian intransigence in ending the war in Ukraine.
A Nevada business owner prepared and filed false tax returns to fraudulently obtain Covid relief money for her businesses and others, prosecutors said.
Una pandemia humana puede prevenirse, incluso ahora, dicen los científicos. Pero una serie de acontecimientos de las últimas semanas indica que la posibilidad ya no es remota.