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Latest on the Kirk Investigation, Who Was Charlie Kirk?, Russian Drones Over Poland

Published 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Police are still searching for the gunman who killed right-wing activist Charlie Kirk during a speech at a Utah college campus. We look back at Kirk’s rise in conservative politics through Turning Point USA and the controversies that defined him. And in Europe, Russian drones crossing into Poland are testing NATO’s limits and raising fears of a wider war.

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