Overview

• Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau wrote on X that foreigners who praise, rationalize, or make light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination are not welcome in the United States.
• Landau said he has directed consular officials to take “appropriate action,” though he did not specify which measures could be used or who would be targeted.
• No suspect has been publicly identified, and a major search involving the FBI and Utah police is ongoing.
• The President ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff through Sunday at 6 p.m. ET in Kirk’s honor.
• Kirk was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.