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President Donald Trump takes the stage with Erika Kirk at the Memorial Service for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Sunday, September 21, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) Erika Kirk has reflected on the practical realities of life without her husband, Charlie Kirk, as the first anniversary of his murder approaches. In an essay published Sunday in The New York Times entitled “What I’ve Learned About Grief,” Kirk recalled returning home to her children on Sept. 11, 2025, the day after the Turning Point USA founder was shot and killed. She remembered sitting on…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced the creation of an “International Video Game Festival” in France, declaring video games a “cultural exception” of the republic. Macron made the announcement speaking at the Sommet Lumière, an international cinema and audiovisual conference hosted by France at the medieval town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence and co-chaired by Macron and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. The French president said he firmly believes that video games are part of culture and that they should “in fact, be part of France’s cultural exception” just as cinema and other forms creative expression are. “So, we will create an international…

On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America Early,” former Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council Fred Fleitz said that we should “roll back offensive operations and concentrate on the economic strangulation” of Iran but the economic pressure is “going to take time.” Fleitz began by saying, “I don’t think the fall of the regime is imminent, but I think the Trump administration has the right approach to this, that is to strangle this regime.” He added, “When people say economic sanctions have not worked in the past, they have not…

Former Georgia state representative Vernon Jones (R) is defending House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) against racial comments from a leftist journalist. Jones, a conservative Democrat-turned-Republican, addressed the issue in a series of social media posts in which he also made it clear he does not agree with Jeffries politically. “I’m a Black Republican who disagrees with @RepJeffries on nearly every political issue — but I will not remain silent while @rulajebreal calls America’s highest-ranking Black member of Congress an ‘AIPAC monkey’ and an ‘errand boy.’ That is vile, dehumanizing racism,” Jones wrote Sunday. “Her pathetic ‘I didn’t mean it in a racist…

Rep. Lori Trahan’s decision last week to forgo a leadership bid to instead focus on developing artificial intelligence policy surprised some of her colleagues. It also left some of them wondering whether her thwarted attempt to work across the aisle on the subject was what doomed her prospects.In an interview Friday, the Massachusetts Democrat brushed off the idea that efforts to broker an AI deal with a Republican backfired. She said the opposite was true: Many House Democrats told her she should run for caucus vice chair because of her work in this complex policy space.“Look, I spent August really…

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom could sign a bill that would make former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents unemployable in the state’s public sector. The legislation, which is called the “Get the Feds Out Act,” — or the “GTFO Act” — was passed by the California Senate at the end of August, per a report from Blaze Media. The California Assembly already voted 53 to 21 in May to advance the legislation and concurred with Senate amendments in August. Newsom has not said whether he would sign the bill. The bill’s legislative findings assert that since President Donald Trump started…

The conservative government of Ulf Kristersson has overseen a dramatic decline in shootings and gangland violence in Sweden, yet has warned that such gains could easily be lost as voters head to the polls on Sunday to determine the next government. A report from the Financial Times revealed that under Kristersson, Sweden has seen an 80 per cent decline in the number of shootings since the conservative government came to power in 2022, when there were 391 shootings resulting in 62 deaths. In comparison, as of August 6th, there were only 48 shootings and 12 deaths recorded in the country this…

On this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) previewed this week’s upcoming Republican National Convention meant to bolster the GOP’s midterm prospects. Gill derided the rise of “socialism” in Democratic Party ranks, saying no matter the label, it was “essentially communism.” “Let’s shift gears just a little bit,” host Jason Chaffetz said. “I know you’re going to speak at the convention coming up this week, the Republican Convention, just a few miles really from your home there you represent kind of in the greater Dallas area. Talk to me about socialism. Talk to me about…

President Donald Trump will be at the center of this week’s GOP midterm convention. Many of his fellow Republicans are hoping he doesn’t make it all about him.The parade of lawmakers, candidates, donors and party officials now headed to Dallas for the two-day spectacle are counting on Trump to make a compelling pitch on the national stage before voters hit the polls.According to interviews with dozens of Republicans, they are largely hoping for a two-pronged approach aimed at getting the president’s committed supporters off the sidelines: a focus on what they call Democrats’ extreme positions and the accomplishments of the…

Federal officials on Monday said all five people killed after an Amazon plane overran a runway in Miami were on the ground in a van. Five people died, and five people were injured after an Amazon Boeing 767 plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport and burst into flames on Sunday. The cargo plane departed Puerto Rico and crashed as it landed at Miami International Airport around 2 pm ET. The plane hit vehicles, forcing a ground stop. “21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept.…