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Charlie Kirk, the right-wing influencer and founder of Turning Point USA, speaks at an event in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 26, 2024. Kirk, a conservative wunderkind who through his radio show, books, political organizing and relentless speaking tours became a close ally of President Donald Trump and did much to shape the hard-right movement that coalesced around him over the last decade, died of a gunshot wound on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, where he had been speaking at a college campus event. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

President Donald Trump announces posthumous Medal of Freedom for Charlie Kirk

September 11, 2025 at 1:39 p.m.

President Donald Trump said he would award Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, paying tribute to the political ally whose killing stunned the conservative movement.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Feb. 12, 2019.

Trump still coy on whether he’ll sign border deal, but claims victory anyway

August 22, 2019 at 10:29 a.m.

Even before seeing a final deal or agreeing to seal it, President Donald Trump labored on Wednesday to frame the congressional agreement on border security as a political win, never...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., takes questions from reporters on Jan. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill.

Speaker Pelosi cancels commercial Afghanistan trip, cites Trump’s ‘leak’

August 22, 2019 at 10:19 a.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday canceled her plans to travel by commercial plane to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan, saying President Donald Trump had caused a security risk by...

President Donald Trump, with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, speaks during his visit to U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station in McAllen, Texas, on Jan. 10, 2019. At the event, the props in the center of the room included a rifle, handguns, cash and black-taped bricks of heroin and meth, examples of things Border Patrol agents have seized.

Trump threatens emergency declaration, eyes disaster funds to pay for border wall

August 22, 2019 at 10:16 a.m.

Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised...

After meeting with President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks to the media as House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy looks on outside the West Wing on Dec. 20, 2018. Trump informed the two he won't sign a funding bill to avert a government shutdown without border wall money.

House GOP approves funding for Trump’s border wall as shutdown nears; Senate almost certain to reject measure

August 22, 2019 at 10:08 a.m.

President Donald Trump's demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown as House Republicans approved a package Thursday with his $5.7 billion request that is...

In reversal, Trump directs supplemental FBI investigation, reiterates support for Kavanaugh

August 22, 2019 at 9:25 a.m.

President Donald Trump said Friday he found the testimony by a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh decades ago to be "very compelling,"...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Trump escalates fight with ABC after ‘Roseanne’ cancellation

August 22, 2019 at 4:04 a.m.

President Donald Trump escalated a grudge against ABC on Thursday in the wake of the cancellation of "Roseanne," tweeting at the chief executive of ABC's parent company. Trump targeted Robert...

La NFL impondrá sanciones y multas y a los equipos cuyos de los jugadores que se arrodillen durante el himno nacional.

Trump aplaude prohibición a jugadores NFL de arrodillarse

December 14, 2018 at 8:32 a.m.

El presidente Donald Trump declaró que la NFL "está haciendo lo correcto" al prohibir que los jugadores se arrodillen durante la entonación del himno nacional. Si un jugador desea arrodillarse,...

Adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, speaks outside federal court with her lawyer Michael Avenatti in Manhattan on April 16, 2018.

Trump tweets he paid lawyer for Stormy Daniels hush settlement after Giuliani reveals repayment on Fox

August 22, 2019 at 3:45 a.m.

President Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday he repaid his personal lawyer for hush money given to porn actress Stormy Daniels after claiming previously he didn't know about the payments. But the...

En inmigración, Trump busca la ‘opción nuclear’

May 15, 2019 at 11:19 a.m.

El presidente Donald Trump volvió el lunes a tuitear furiosamente sobre el tema migratorio, llamando al Congreso a aprobar leyes de seguridad fronteriza "usando la opción nuclear si es necesario"....

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