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President Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk reunited during a memorial service for the conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, months after their public falling-out. Trump and Musk were spotted during the service seated together in a private suite and speaking. An official White House social media account highlighted their exchange. At...

President Trump will be one of the speakers at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz., which is expected to draw tens of thousands of people. Kirk, 31, was fatally shot Sept. 10 at an event on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem. He is survived by his wife, Erika Kirk, and two children. Other...

Congress is moving head-first toward a government shutdown after the Senate voted down a pair of stopgap spending bills, including a “clean” one proposed by the GOP to keep the lights on for seven weeks while appropriators hammer out a longer-term deal.  Lawmakers will be out of town for the next week before returning on...

President Trump said on Saturday he will award Ben Carson, his first-term Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. “We are going to be presenting Dr. Ben Carson with the highest civilian award and honor in our country. It's the civilian version of the Medal of...

FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday that his agency is "meticulously investigating theories and questions” in the investigation into conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s shooting. “The full weight of America’s law enforcement agencies are actively following the evidence that has emerged, but our efforts extend beyond initial findings. We are examining every facet of this assassination,”...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) praised the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk for his dedication to free speech and open debate, saying communities around the country “need more of” that approach. “I see him as someone who was devoted to speech and debate,” Shapiro said in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,”...

Estonia said Sunday that the United Nations Security Council is going to meet after three Russian fighter jets flew into Estonian airspace late this week. “In response to Russia’s blatant, reckless, and flagrant violation of @NATO airspace over Estonia on Friday—when armed MiG-31 fighter jets intruded into our territory for 12 minutes—the @UN Security Council...

NATO must take a more proactive approach to deter Russian aggression, as Moscow is testing the alliance's defenses and exploiting its reluctance to act, and the West must provide Ukraine with long-range missiles to strike Russian drone factories and shoot down any Russian fighters that violate NATO airspace.

Both chambers approved resolutions to honor Charlie Kirk last week.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) believes President Trump “wants to be a prosecutor in every district where he has an enemy.” “Donald Trump's not content just being president,” Christie said on ABC’s This Week. “He wants to be a prosecutor in every district where he has an enemy, so that he can make...

Richard Besser, the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says he “can’t look” to the CDC for trustworthy medical information on Sunday. “My biggest takeaway as a doctor is that I can't look to the CDC anymore for the trusted information,” Besser said on ABC’s This Week. “I'm going...

President Trump will be one of the speakers at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz., which is expected to draw tens of thousands of people. Other speakers will include Vice President Vance and Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, who has been tapped to pick up the reins at Turning Point USA after her late husband,...

Faiz Shakir, an adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said Sunday that President Trump is solely concerned with his “own self-interest.” “This is a person who’s looking out purely for their own self-interest, self preservation,” Shakir said on “ABC’s This Week.” “Me, Trump, my cronyism, go and defend my personal interests, dear Department of Justice,...

President Trump said Sunday it was a "tough day" as he and numerous other White House officials traveled to Arizona for a memorial for Charlie Kirk. "I’m just going to give them my love. There’s nothing much you can say," Trump told reporters as he left the White House when asked for his message to...