2025-09-11
13 分钟Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been killed at an event in Utah.
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It's Wednesday, September 10th.
I'm Alex Osela for The Wall Street Journal.
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President Trump said that conservative political activist and author Charlie Kirk has died.
He was shot while on stage speaking at an event at Utah Valley University.
Videos on social media appear to show shots fired at Kirk
as he spoke from a stage around noon local time.
Our White House reporter Alex Leary sent us this just before it became known that Kirk had died.
This is a major.
Charlie Kirk is a beloved figure in the Trump orbit,
very influential, especially among younger voters,
very close to not just the president, but the president's family and a lot of his advisors.