Overview

• Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University, and the shooter remains at large as authorities continue the search.
• Elizabeth Warren told CNN that efforts to cool political rhetoric should begin with President Donald Trump, a clip that quickly spread online.
• President Trump, in an Oval Office statement, blamed the media and the radical left and said such rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism seen today.
• Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly urged leaders to lower the temperature and said he believes the killing was a political assassination.
• Utah officials said the investigation is ongoing and is believed to be a targeted attack, while prominent conservatives escalated online blame, including posts by Elon Musk and Laura Loomer.