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President Donald Trump said Thursday he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated during a campus speaking event in Utah a day earlier. Trump announced the honor during remarks at the Pentagon commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “Before we …

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University, officials confirmed. He was 31. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called the killing a “political assassination” at an evening press conference, describing the shooting …