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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...

Trump Releasing More King, Kennedy Assassination Files

Slain president's grandson objects to declassification

(Newser) - An executive order signed by President Trump on Thursday calls for making thousands of documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. public. "Lot of people are waiting for this a long, for years, for decades," Trump said, per...

Ukraine Takes Out Russian 'War Criminal' on His Home Turf

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was accused by the West of overseeing the use of chemical weapons

(Newser) - Ukraine says it assassinated a top Russian general responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops on Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, and his assistant died outside an apartment building in Moscow when a bomb concealed in an...

Filipino VP to Prez: Anything Happens to Me, You're Toast

Sara Duterte says she's hired an assassin to kill Ferdinand Marcos Jr., wife if she's killed herself

(Newser) - Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife, and the country's House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned wasn't a joke. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred the "...

Malcolm X's Daughters File $100M Suit Over Assassination

Civil rights leader's family says DOJ, CIA, FBI, NYPD all knew of 1965 death plot and did nothing

(Newser) - Three of Malcolm X's daughters have filed a $100 million suit against some of the nation's top law enforcement and intelligence agencies, alleging those groups knew of threats against their father's life and did nothing to stop his assassination at age 39. Per the AP , the complaint...

FBI: Iran Plotted to Kill Trump Before Election

Charges unsealed in court in New York

(Newser) - Iran tried to engineer a plot to assassinate Donald Trump before the election, federal prosecutors say. Investigators learned of the alleged plot to kill Trump while interviewing Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national identified by officials as an Iranian government asset, per the AP . He told investigators that a contact in...

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