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Amanda Seyfried on Charlie Kirk Slam: 'Not F---ing Apologizing'

Actor defends Instagram comment on slain conservative in which she called him 'hateful'

(Newser) - Amanda Seyfried isn't walking back her criticism of Charlie Kirk , even as backlash continues over her remarks after the conservative activist's killing in September. In a new interview with fashion site Who What Wear , the Oscar-nominated actor was asked about an Instagram comment in which she called Kirk...

Erika Kirk Gives First TV Interview Since Murder

On Fox, TPUSA chief describes last moments with Charlie Kirk in the hospital, how kids are doing

(Newser) - In her first televised interview since the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk , Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk is recounting the moment she saw him in the hospital after he'd been shot. Speaking with Fox News' Jesse Watters , Erika described a defiant "smirk" on Charlie's face...

Mexican Mayor Who Pushed Crime Fight Slain in Public

Carlos Manzo was shot to death during a festival

(Newser) - The mayor of Uruapan, a city in Mexico's violence-ridden Michoacan state, was fatally shot during a public event on Saturday, according to authorities. The national public security agency reported that two suspects were detained after the attack on Carlos Manzo, and an assailant was also killed at the scene....

Shinzo Abe's Killer Confesses
Shinzo Abe's Killer Confesses
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Shinzo Abe's Killer Confesses

Tetsuya Yamagami admits to 2022 assassination, will challenge firearms violation

(Newser) - The man accused of assassinating Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday, nearly three years after the shocking daylight killing rocked a nation unaccustomed to gun violence. "Everything is true," Tetsuya Yamagami declared in a Nara courtroom at the start of his...

He Was the First Congressman Assassinated. Few Remember

James Hinds championed Black rights after the Civil War, as Longreads explains

(Newser) - On a lonely Arkansas road in 1868, Congressman James M. Hinds was assassinated for championing Reconstruction and Black civil rights—yet his name has been all but erased from American memory. A story at Longreads examines how the first congressman ever assassinated while in office—a man once called...

After Kirk Killing, White House Seeks $58M Security Boost

Request to Congress cites increase in threats

(Newser) - In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the White House has asked Congress for $58 million in new security funding for top government officials. The request for funds to bolster security for the executive and judicial branches is being considered as part of a stopgap funding bill, with...

Man Who Asked Kirk His Last Question: 'I Dropped to the Floor'

Liberal TikTokker Hunter Kozak was asking Kirk about mass shootings before shot rang out

(Newser) - The final person to talk directly to Charlie Kirk , and who witnessed the conservative activist's assassination on Wednesday at Utah Valley University, is now speaking out. The New York Times identifies Hunter Kozak, a 29-year-old liberal TikTokker, as the person who was at the mic asking Kirk the last...

Here's What We Know About Kirk Shooting Suspect

Cops believe college-age shooter jumped from roof, escaped into neighborhood

(Newser) - A Thursday morning press conference brought new details in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, with Utah public safety officials revealing they now have images of the shooter, believed to be of college age, who remains at large. Officials said they also recovered what is believed to be the gun used...

How the Charlie Kirk Shooting Unfolded at the White House

Shock and grief permeated the day, from the president down to young staffers who knew him

(Newser) - An aide informed President Trump of Charlie Kirk's shooting about 2:30pm Wednesday, and the "apparently shocked" president spent the next hour asking for updates, reports Maggie Haberman in the New York Times . Trump took a few calls from reporters in the interim and began referring to Kirk,...

Colombian Presidential Hopeful Dies Weeks After Being Shot

Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was victim of campaign rally shooting in Bogota

(Newser) - Colombian conservative senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay died Monday, more than two months after being shot in the head during a campaign rally in western Bogota. His wife, María Claudia Tarazona, confirmed the 39-year-old's death early Monday, reports the AP . Uribe Turbay was critically wounded on...

Ukraine Says It Killed 2 Russian Assassins

Senior intelligence official was shot to death in Kyiv

(Newser) - Ukraine's Security Service said Sunday that it tracked down and killed two Russian agents who assassinated a senior official in Kyiv on Thursday. The agency's chief said in a video that the agents working for Russia's security service were "liquidated" after resisting arrest early Sunday, the...

Suspect in Minnesota Killings Is Caught

Vance Boelter arrested in Minnesota, but few other details have been released

(Newser) - The man suspected of killing one Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another has been taken into custody, two law enforcement officials said, bringing an end to a nearly two-day search that put the state on edge. Vance Boelter was arrested Sunday evening. The arrest was confirmed to the AP by law...

Don't Expect Those MLK Files Anytime Soon

Judge seeks careful review amid pushback from Dr. King's allies

(Newser) - A federal judge in Washington has signaled he may accelerate the release of documents tied to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in response to President Trump's executive order . But during a Wednesday hearing, Judge Richard Leon made clear that any move would be a slow...

Lawmaker Who Warned of 'Hired Goons' Assassinated

Kenyan lawmaker Charles Ong'ondo Were was shot dead on Nairobi road

(Newser) - Charles Ong'ondo Were, an opposition lawmaker in Kenya, foretold his own death. Were was shot dead in the capital, Nairobi, Wednesday night in what police say appears to have been a "targeted and predetermined" killing. Earlier this year, he warned that "hired goons" were plotting to assassinate...

Russia: Suspect Says Ukraine Paid Him to Kill General

Yaroslav Moskalik was assassinated in a car bombing as Trump envoy arrived in Moscow for talks with Putin

(Newser) - Russian authorities said Sunday that a man charged in the death of a senior general has admitted to the killing and said he was paid by the Ukrainian Security Service. The defendant pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, the Investigative Committee said, in the car bombing of Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik...

Trump Administration Releases RFK Assassination Files

Tulsi Gabbard says 10K pages have been released, with 50K more to come

(Newser) - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised President Trump on Friday for "lifting the veil" on files related to the 1968 assassination of his father. In a move Trump ordered within days of taking office, the administration released around 10,000 pages of files, which can...

Authorities Say Teen Killed Parents to Get Money for Assassination

Prosecutors say teen's manifesto spelled out a plan to create chaos in the government

(Newser) - A Wisconsin teenager charged in the February deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to "obtain the financial means" to assassinate President Trump and cause a governmental collapse, according to a recently unsealed federal warrant. Nikita Casap, 17, was charged last month by Waukesha County...

Trump Suggests Oswald Didn't Act Alone in JFK Assassination

President seems to be pondering a popular conspiracy theory

(Newser) - President Trump on Saturday seemed to give at least a bit of credence to a longstanding conspiracy theory regarding John F. Kennedy's assassination. On the Outkick radio show, host Clay Travis spoke to the POTUS about the recent release of thousands of files on the 1963 assassination, and at...

Investigators Think Maduro Borrowed a Lethal Putin Tactic

Venezuelan leader accused of ordering murder of a political enemy on foreign soil

(Newser) - The footage from security cameras inside an apartment building in Chile depict what looks like a straightforward arrest: As the New York Times reports, it shows three men in police uniform escorting their handcuffed prisoner away in the middle of the night. But Chilean authorities say it's not what...

Trump: Iran Will Be 'Obliterated' if It Assassinates Me

He signs executive order to put 'maximum pressure' on Tehran

(Newser) - President Trump said Tuesday that he's given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him. "If they did that they would be obliterated," Trump said in an exchange with reporters while signing an executive order calling for the US government to impose maximum pressure on...

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